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chemist wrote:
On Jun 6, 5:38 am, "V-for-Vendicar"
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"0ZBN0" wrote

NO!

Dr. Tim Ball: The Lier that Just Won't Die
5 Feb 07
The deathless and - in many specific respects - completely fictional
meanderings of Dr. Tim Ball have begun appearing again on right-wing
blogs all over the net. At City Troll, at Convenient Untruth and at
New Orleans Lady, the same tired and retreaded old climate rant
paints Dr. Ball as the courageous victim of a plot to silence a
well-meaning skeptic.

But Ball can't even tell the truth about his own resume. His claim
to be the first Climatology Ph.D. in Canada is a total falsehood;
his degree was in historical geography - not climatology - and it
was nowhere near the first ever granted to someone writing vaguely
in the field. It also was granted by the university as a doctor of
philosophy, not the more prestigious "doctor of science" that Ball
claims in these articles.

He claims as well to have been a professor (again of climatology) at
the University of Winnipeg for 32 years, while he confirmed in his
own Statement of Claim in a pending lawsuit (look here ) that he was
a professor (of geography, never climatology) for just eight years.

Dr. Ball claims never to have been paid by oil and gas interests,
but if you look here , you'll find a Globe and Mail story in which
Dr. Barry Cooper, the man behind Ball's former industry front group,
the Friends of Science , offers this clumsy admission: "[The
money's] not exclusively from the oil and gas industry," says Prof.
Cooper. "It's also from foundations and individuals. I can't tell
you the names of those companies, or the foundations for that
matter, or the individuals."

Here you'll find a podcast of Dr. Ball talking to the Ottawa Citizen
, saying that he goes out of his way to ignore who might be paying
his bills, but crediting the energy industry lobby firm, the High
Park Group . And here, you'll find High Park Group veteran Tom
Harris, telling the Toronto Star that his new industry front group,
the Natural Resources Stewardship Project , was created at the
suggestion of High Park Group president Timothy Egan.

Tom Harris, executive director of the NRSP, is credited by New
Orleans Lady for passing along this version of the Ball tirade, also
printed Monday on the right-wingy website, Canada Free Press. Yet
all of these factual inconsistencies have been brought to Harris's
attention on previous occasions.

It is inevitable that this post will be criticized as an ad hominem
attack on dear Dr. Ball (and perhaps on Harris, as well). But how
can you argue science with someone who doesn't feel bound by the
limits of truth?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just endured an
unprecedented process of vetting and peer-review to produce a
document, the veracity of which has been double-checked and endorsed
by thousands of the best scientists in the world. It must be
soul-destroying to see a long-retired geographer who rarely
published during his colourless academic career and who never
conducted any research in atmospheric science dismiss that effort
without a shred of evidence or a hint of good conscience.

THIS LAST POST IS A TRAVESTY

Nope, just the facts, Maam.

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