Anthony Watts is neither honorable or honest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Watts_(blogger)BEST project, alleged doubling of trend by NOAA[edit]
Main article: Berkeley Earth
In March 2011 Watts visited the Berkeley Earth Temperature project (BEST), and said "I'm prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong."[8] In October the project released data and a draft of their paper which produced results supporting the existing scientific consensus. Watts said that its methodology was flawed, complaining that the BEST study analyzed a larger period than his own research, and that it was not yet peer reviewed.[8] Richard A. Muller, founder of BEST, later said their study directly addressed Watts' concern about the condition of weather stations; "we discovered that station quality does not affect the results. Even poor stations reflected temperature changes accurately."[58]
Around 22 July 2012, Watts heard that the BEST project was about to release further material, and decided to release a paper he and Evan Jones had been working on for about a year.[59] On 27 July he blogged that WUWT was suspended until noon on 29 July: "major announcement coming".[60] The New York Times published a summary of further draft results from BEST, including an announcement from Muller that their study now showed that humans "are almost entirely the cause" of the warming. Shortly afterwards, Watts announced his own team's draft paper which said that previously reported temperature rises had been "spuriously doubled", and made the serious accusation that NOAA had inflated the rate by erroneous adjustments to the data.[61][62] Climate scientists and other bloggers quickly found flaws in the paper. Steve McIntyre, who Watts had named as a co-author, stressed that his involvement had been "very last minute and limited". He agreed with criticisms including the point that Watts had failed to correct for time of observation bias, and noted that independent satellite temperature measurements were closer to the NOAA figures.[63]
In 2012 BEST released its series of peer-reviewed papers confirming previous results that the surface temperature is rising.[64]
As you can see from the
Wikipedia article quoted above and the portions I emphasized, Watts promised to abide by the BEST project study, even if it proved him wrong (which he obviously did not expect to happen). When that project indeed
did prove him wrong, he reneged on that promise, and published his own study. When the flaws in that study were exposed, even Watts' co-author, Steve McIntyre, agreed with the criticisms of it and disavowed it. Despite that, Watts continued to maintain his now thoroughly discredited views. Watts is no credible authority on the realities of climate change, or certainly not an honest one!
