Friends of Science Featured Guest Speaker Event
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Join Friends of Science Society to hear our featured guest speaker, Anthony Watts, meteorologist and founder of “Watts Up With That?” as he calmly washes all those fears away.
Watts will present 25 climate topics grouped into four sections – Extreme Weather, Climate Impacts, Science & Models, and What We Were Told Was Wrong.
His presentation will draw on official climate datasets from NOAA, NASA, IPCC, and the EPA.
Extreme Weather - Watts agrees that climate change is real, but he argues that today's temperatures are still cooler than most of the past 6,000 years! He will work through the extreme weather data for hurricanes, U.S. heatwaves, tornadoes, weather-related deaths, drought, and floods to argue that none show a worsening trend.
Climate Impacts - Watts examines climate impacts such as sea level rise, Arctic ice, polar bears, coral, global greening, snowpack, and wildfires, concluding these systems are stable or improving according to actual data.
Science & Models - In the science section, Watts challenges the reliability of climate models versus observed temperatures. He will explain and discuss the urban heat island contamination of temperature records. Other topics include CO2's diminishing warming effect, the Sun's role in climate change, and El Niño's natural contribution to recent warming. Watts also pushes back on the "97% consensus" framing.
What We Were Told Was Wrong - In the closing section, Watts revisits failed past predictions such as the 1989 UN climate-refugee forecast, Pacific island "sinking" claims, ocean acidification framing, and he ends with the latest headline news: the IPCC/CMIP7 extreme scenario RCP 8.5, used in climate models, was retired as being “implausible” in April 2026.
Watts wraps it up with the "bottom line" – you should no longer fear global warming or climate change; the data supports calm, rational confidence in the future rather than fear.
Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute. Since 1978, Watts has been in the weather business, both in front of and behind the camera, as a television meteorologist, and he currently offers listeners daily radio forecasts. He has created weather graphics presentation systems for television and specialized weather instrumentation, and he has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on climate issues. He operated the most viewed website in the world on climate, the award-winning WattsUpWithThat.com.
Anthony Watts has co-authored Climate at a Glance (Second Edition): Facts on 40 Prominent Climate Topics with James Taylor. They use cold, hard facts and well-established data to debunk some of the most prominent climate myths. This easy-to-read book is perfect for teachers and students interested in learning the truth about climate change and its impacts. Copies of this book will be sold at the event or are available on Amazon.
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