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{{bronze}}{{globalwarmingnav}}'''Timothy Francis "Tim" Ball'''<ref>Not to be confused with [http://www.bartel.org/calvinball/ Calvinball]</ref> is a [[credentials|credential-fudging]] [[denialist]] [[crank]].  
 
{{bronze}}{{globalwarmingnav}}'''Timothy Francis "Tim" Ball'''<ref>Not to be confused with [http://www.bartel.org/calvinball/ Calvinball]</ref> is a [[credentials|credential-fudging]] [[denialist]] [[crank]].  
##Warning: The following article is factually inaccurate and was probably written by a left wing moron**
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==Credential fudging and climate denial==
 
==Credential fudging and climate denial==
Ball has been represented in the [[media]] as a climatologist who has held a professorship for upward of twenty-eight years. However, he carefully ''omits'' this in his ''curriculum vitae''.<ref>[http://drtimball.com/_files/dr-tim-ball-CV.pdf Tim Ball's CV]</ref> In fact, he was a professor of [[geography]] with a focus in historical climate who retired in 1996.  When the ''Calgary Herald'' published a letter<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/09/tim_ball_sues_for_325000.php Tim Ball Sues for $325,000], Deltoid</ref> that questioned the credentials listed for Ball (in an article in which Ball attacked [[Tim Flannery]]<ref>[http://www2.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=d622e9fa-cdc8-4163-8292-a1a554f58f94 "Aussies' Suzuki heavier on rhetoric than on science" Ball's original letter]</ref>) Ball sued for libel, while admitting that he had not been a professor for twenty-eight years.<ref>[http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-vs-dan-johnson-lawsuit-documents Tim Ball vs. Dan Johnson lawsuit documents] archived at DeSmog Blog</ref> (Don't think too hard about that or it might make your head hurt.) Before the suit was dropped (against 3 defendants), Tim Lambert of [[Scienceblogs|Deltoid]] dared Ball to sue him, too.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/06/dear_tim_ball_sue_me.php Dear Tim Ball: Sue Me], Deltoid</ref> Lambert also expressed doubt over the relevance of Ball's research:
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Ball has been represented in the [[media]] as a climatologist ([[Canada]]'s first, don'tcha know?) who has held a professorship for upward of twenty-eight years. However, he carefully ''omits'' this in his ''curriculum vitae''.<ref>[http://drtimball.com/_files/dr-tim-ball-CV.pdf Tim Ball's CV]</ref> In fact, he was a professor of [[geography]] with a focus in historical climate who retired in 1996.  When the ''Calgary Herald'' published a letter<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/09/tim_ball_sues_for_325000.php Tim Ball Sues for $325,000], Deltoid</ref> that questioned the credentials listed for Ball (in an article in which Ball attacked [[Tim Flannery]]<ref>[http://www2.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=d622e9fa-cdc8-4163-8292-a1a554f58f94 "Aussies' Suzuki heavier on rhetoric than on science" Ball's original letter]</ref>) Ball sued for libel, while admitting that he had not been a professor for twenty-eight years.<ref>[http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-vs-dan-johnson-lawsuit-documents Tim Ball vs. Dan Johnson lawsuit documents] archived at DeSmog Blog</ref> (Don't think too hard about that or it might make your head hurt.) Before the suit was dropped (against 3 defendants), Tim Lambert of [[Scienceblogs|Deltoid]] dared Ball to sue him, too.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/06/dear_tim_ball_sue_me.php Dear Tim Ball: Sue Me], Deltoid</ref> Lambert also expressed doubt over the relevance of Ball's research:
 
{{cquote|However, hardly any of those 51 publications are in scientific journals but include things like gardening magazines. I looked in Web of Science and could only find four papers by Ball, all on historical climatology, none on climate and atmosphere. I don't see how Ball can possibly win his case, but I guess that's not the point.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/09/tim_ball_sues_for_325000.php Tim Ball Sues for $325,000], Deltoid</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|However, hardly any of those 51 publications are in scientific journals but include things like gardening magazines. I looked in Web of Science and could only find four papers by Ball, all on historical climatology, none on climate and atmosphere. I don't see how Ball can possibly win his case, but I guess that's not the point.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/09/tim_ball_sues_for_325000.php Tim Ball Sues for $325,000], Deltoid</ref>}}
  

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Timothy Francis "Tim" Ball[1] is a credential-fudging denialist crank.

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Credential fudging and climate denial

Ball has been represented in the media as a climatologist (Canada's first, don'tcha know?) who has held a professorship for upward of twenty-eight years. However, he carefully omits this in his curriculum vitae.[2] In fact, he was a professor of geography with a focus in historical climate who retired in 1996. When the Calgary Herald published a letter[3] that questioned the credentials listed for Ball (in an article in which Ball attacked Tim Flannery[4]) Ball sued for libel, while admitting that he had not been a professor for twenty-eight years.[5] (Don't think too hard about that or it might make your head hurt.) Before the suit was dropped (against 3 defendants), Tim Lambert of Deltoid dared Ball to sue him, too.[6] Lambert also expressed doubt over the relevance of Ball's research:

However, hardly any of those 51 publications are in scientific journals but include things like gardening magazines. I looked in Web of Science and could only find four papers by Ball, all on historical climatology, none on climate and atmosphere. I don't see how Ball can possibly win his case, but I guess that's not the point.[7]

Eli Rabett has created the "Tim Ball Award for Resume Stretching" in his honor.[8]

Even within the deniosphere, Ball hasn't come up with anything new or impressive. All he does is constantly repeat points refuted a thousand times about solar cycles and how carbon dioxide is plant food. For example, take a look at his ingenious "refutation" of rising sea levels where he just puts some ice cubes in a glass and lets them melt.

Creationism

Ball also seems to be a creationist of some sort. In an op-ed in Canada Free Press, he wrote:

Even though it is still just a theory and not a law 148 years after it was first proposed, Darwinian evolution is the only view allowed in schools. Why? Such censorship suggests fear of other ideas, a measure of indefensibility.[9]

On his website, he attacks Richard Dawkins and claims science, evolution, and environmentalism are religions. He also believes that the Bible's predictions have been just as verified as those made by science:

Perhaps the ultimate irony[10] is that the biblical views on nature, human roles and responsibilities are as logical as any other including modern environmentalism.[11]

When you take his global warming denialism together with creationism and his admiration for Immanuel Velikovsky,[12] there's clear evidence for crank magnetism.

Tim Ball's reading list

Ball recommends some great reading for all the warmists:

There are three Web sites I have some respect for. One is the one I helped set up by a group of very frustrated professional scientists who are retired. That’s called Friendsofscience.org. It has deliberately tried to focus on the science only. The second site that I think provides the science side of it very, very well is CO2Science.org, and that’s run by Sherwood Idso, who is the world expert on the relationship between plant growth and CO2. The third, which is a little more irreverent and maybe still slightly on the technical side for the general public, is JunkScience.com.[13]

More lawsuits

In 2011, Ball found himself at the receiving end of a couple of libel suits. In February, University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver filed a lawsuit against Ball for his op-eds that accused Weaver of incompetence and corruption. In March, Penn State climatologist Michael Mann filed a lawsuit against Ball and his think tank for publishing statements on their websites that claimed Mann was complicit in a "cover-up" of Climategate and that he had committed scientific fraud.[14]

Since the suits were launched Canada Free Press has retracted one of the interviews with Ball on the website.[15] Furthermore, they seem to have scrubbed a good deal of Ball's articles and Ball-related material.[16]

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