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Watts Up With That? (or WUWT) is a blog〔 which promotes climate change skepticism or denial, created in 2006 by Anthony Watts.〔〔 The tagline of the blog is "News and commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news."〔 〕 The blog predominantly discusses climate issues with a focus on anthropogenic climate change, generally accommodating beliefs that are in opposition to the scientific consensus on climate change. Contributors include Christopher Monckton and Fred Singer as guest authors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet The Climate Denial Machine )〕 In November 2009, the blog was one of the first websites to publish emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit controversy, and a driving force behind its coverage.〔 In the early months of 2010, it was suggested the site might be "the most read climate blog in the world,"〔 and in 2013 Michael E. Mann referred to it as the leading climate change denial blog.〔 ==Content== ''Watts Up With That'' features material disputing the scientific consensus on climate change, including claims the human role in global warming is insignificant and carbon dioxide is not a driving force of warming.〔: "Despite the well-known facts under discussion, the original graph, based on a single outdated study published in 1991, continues to reappear again and again in climate skeptical media, trying to prove that the sun, not anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is causing global warming. The original curve appears, for example, on Anthony Watts' climate skeptical blog "Watts Up With That?" in an article posted in 2011."〕 It hosts several contributors, such as Christopher Monckton and Fred Singer, in addition to Watts.〔 It is among the most prominent climate change denial blogs,〔: "In recent years these conservative media outlets have been supplemented (and to some degree supplanted) by the conservative blogosphere, and numerous blogs now constitute a vital element of the denial machine...the most popular North American blogs are run by a retired TV meteorologist (wattsupwiththat.com)...Having this powerful, pervasive, and multifaceted media apparatus at its service provides the denial machine with a highly effective means of spreading its message."〕〔: "One of the highest trafficked climate blogs is wattsupwiththat.com, a website that publishes climate misinformation on a daily basis."〕〔: "More importantly, it was becoming clear that the most effective denialist media weapon was not the newspapers or television but the internet. A number of influential websites, like Watts Up With That?, Climate Skeptic and Climate Depot, were established."〕〔: "The most authoritative climate change skepticism web sites included ''Watts Up With That?'' and ''Climate Depot''"〕 and is described by climatologist Michael E. Mann as the most popular, having surpassed Climate Audit.〔: "Since then, a number of other amateur climate change denial bloggers have arrived on the scene. Most prominent among them is Anthony Watts, a meteorologist...and founder of the site "Watts Up with That?" which has overtaken climate audit as the leading climate change denial blog."〕 Columbia Journalism School writer Curtis Brainard has written that "scientists have repeatedly criticized () for misleading readers on subjects such as the reliability of the U.S. surface temperature record."〔: "At the other end of the spectrum are influential sites for "climate skeptics", such as Watts Up With That?, a blog run by meteorologist Anthony Watts, whom scientists have repeatedly criticized for misleading readers on subjects such as the reliability of the U.S. surface temperature record."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Watts Up With That?」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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