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Via Big City Lib, I find this, from Tim Ball and Tom Harris: Like all philosophies that come to dominate society, climate hysteria is part of an evolution of ideas and needs an historical context. The current western view of...
Posted on January 22, 2008 12:08 PM • 39 Comments
Richard Littlemore has the latest on Tim Ball's antics. Check out this bit from Ball: The point I made was with regard to the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. I posed the question about what happens to the water level...
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Posted on January 18, 2008 1:39 PM • 151 Comments
John Stossel is his usual misleading self with a piece denying anthropogenic warming. Video here and summarized here. Tamino details the way Stossel deceives his viewers: Probably the most irritating aspect of Stossel's "report" is a brief clip from An...
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Posted on October 24, 2007 3:04 PM • 100 Comments
David Appell tells of his correspondence with Tim Ball The other day I challenged Tim Ball's assertion that "the world is cooling." I showed temperatures plots for the last several years, and of course it depends on how you want...
Posted on October 16, 2007 2:15 PM • 48 Comments
Tim Ball and Tom Harris tell us: The world is cooling. Global temperatures have declined since 1998 and a growing number of climate experts expect this trend to continue until at least 2030. Do you think that Ball or Harris...
Posted on October 7, 2007 4:15 AM • 134 Comments
At DeSmogBlog, Richard Littlemore reports: The self-styled Canadian climate change expert, Dr. Tim Ball, has abandoned his libel suit against University of Lethbridge Professor of Environmental Science Dan Johnson. Ball dropped the suit without conditions, but also without acknowledging that...
Posted on June 15, 2007 11:41 AM • 5 Comments
Tim Ball has written another silly article, declaring: Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. He provides no evidence...
Posted on February 6, 2007 7:43 AM • 60 Comments
Richard Littlemore has the Calgary Herald's Statement of Defence against Tim Ball's lawsuit....
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Posted on January 10, 2007 9:18 PM • 4 Comments
The CBC's Fifth Estate has produced a documentary on the global warming denial industry: The documentary shows how fossil fuel corporations have kept the global warming debate alive long after most scientists believed that global warming was real and had...
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Posted on November 18, 2006 10:21 AM • 7 Comments
DeSmogBlog has Dan Johnson's statement of Defence against Tim Ball's lawsuit. Johnson has uncovered more examples of Ball embellishing his academic record. For example, Ball claimed he was an Emeritus Professor when he wasn't. Part of his defence is that...
Posted on October 14, 2006 8:37 AM • 10 Comments
Jim Hoggan has the details on a brand new Canadian astroturf group, the Natural Resources Stewardship Project. The chairman is none another than Tim Ball, who is still puffing up his resume. The executive director is Tom Harris, whose other...
Posted on October 13, 2006 2:04 PM • 7 Comments
Richard Littlemore has posted Ball's Statement of Claim. Here is the heart of it with my commments: 8 The letter to the editor contains the follow statements which contain inaccuracies and are defamatory of Ball:...
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Posted on September 18, 2006 12:08 PM • 23 Comments
Tim Ball's letter to Paul Martin starts: I was one of the first climatology PhDs in the world. He got his PhD in 1983....
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Posted on September 17, 2006 7:33 AM • 11 Comments
The Globe and Mail reports CALGARY -- The skeptic at the centre of the heated debate about climate change that has been taking place in Canadian newspapers is moving the dispute to the courts, where Tim Ball is seeking $325,000...
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Posted on September 14, 2006 6:17 PM • 106 Comments
Charles Montgomery's excellent expose of the so-called "Friends of Science" group must have really hit a nerve, because it has drawn an over-the-top response from Terence Corcoran in the National Post. It appears that Corcoran was so incensed by it...
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Posted on August 24, 2006 2:31 PM • 14 Comments
Charles Montgomery has a detailed expose in the Globe and Mail on the activities of Tim Ball and the Friends of Science. It turns out that the University of Calgary has been used to launder oil company money to fund...
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Posted on August 13, 2006 12:47 AM • 32 Comments