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{{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>}} | ||
Even within the deniosphere, Ball hasn't come up with anything new or impressive. All he does is constantly repeat [[PRATT|points refuted a thousand times]] about solar cycles and how [[CO2 is Green|carbon dioxide is plant food]]. For example, take a look at his ingenious "refutation" of rising sea levels where he [http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/01/tim_ball_and_archimedes_princi.php just puts some ice cubes in a glass and lets them melt.] | Even within the deniosphere, Ball hasn't come up with anything new or impressive. All he does is constantly repeat [[PRATT|points refuted a thousand times]] about solar cycles and how [[CO2 is Green|carbon dioxide is plant food]]. For example, take a look at his ingenious "refutation" of rising sea levels where he [http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/01/tim_ball_and_archimedes_princi.php just puts some ice cubes in a glass and lets them melt.] | ||
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==Creationism== | ==Creationism== | ||
Revision as of 20:03, 3 July 2011
Timothy Francis "Tim" Ball[1] is the first Canadian climatologist ever and a super-qualified expert on global warming 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, but he still sued the Calgary Herald for libel when they published a letter that called him out on the claimed credentials, while admitting that he had not been a professor for twenty-eight years.[3] (Don't think too hard about that one or it might make your head hurt.) Before the suit was dropped in 2007, Tim Lambert of Deltoid dared Ball to sue him.[4] Lambert has also expressed doubt over the value 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.[5]
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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 Christian and 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.[6]
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On his website, he attacks Richard Dawkins and claims science, evolution, and environmentalism are a religion. He also believes that the Bible's predictions have been just as verified as those made by science:
“” Perhaps the ultimate irony is that the biblical views on nature, human roles and responsibilities are as logical as any other including modern environmentalism.[7]
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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.[8]
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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.[9]
See also
- Appears in The Great Global Warming Swindle
External links
- Ball's webshite
- Deltoid, Deep Climate, and DeSmog Blog have categories for his bullshit. (Yeah, he's that bad.)
- Play a game of TimBall. (No actual relation to Tim Ball.)
Footnotes
- ↑ Not to be confused with Calvinball
- ↑ Tim Ball's CV
- ↑ Tim Ball vs. Dan Johnson lawsuit documents archived at DeSmog Blog
- ↑ Dear Tim Ball: Sue Me, Deltoid
- ↑ Tim Ball Sues for $325,000, Deltoid
- ↑ Still Just a Theory, Ball in Canada Free Press (via Uncommon Descent)
- ↑ Logic from Those Who Claim to be Logical, Tim Ball
- ↑ Interview with Tim Ball in Human Events
- ↑ Weaver v. Ball and Mann v. Ball lawsuit documents archived at DeSmog Blog.