FACTSHEET: Tim Ball, PhD
DETAILS
Retired - Professor of Geography, University of Winnepeg
Senior Scientific Advisor, Friends of Science
Chairman and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP)
Tim Ball was a "scientific advisor" to the oil industry funded Friends of Science, an organization well known for its climate skepticism and politically charged attack ads. Ball is a member of the Board of Research Advisors of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Canadian free-market think tank which is also predominantly funded by foundations and corporations.
Ball is also a writer for Tech Central Station, a climate denial website run by the PR firm DCI Group.
Tin Ball was a professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996. He is a prolific speaker and writer in the skeptical science community.
QUOTES
"What's wrong with global warming? There are lots of positive benefits to global warming."
Source: DeSmogBlog profile Tim Ball
KEY DEEDS
8 March, 2007
Appeared in documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
Source: The Great Global Warming Swindle (Documentary)
2 May, 2007
Appeared on Glenn Beck's May 2, 2007 special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear"
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
DEEDS
Ball's Friends of Science bio asserted that he taught Climatology at the University of Winnepeg for 32 years and was "the first Canadian Ph.D. in Climatology"
http://web.archive.org/web/20060112012433/http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=2
According to court documents related to Ball's lawsuit against Dr. Dan Johnson, Ball received his PhD in 1983 and Ball "was a professor at the University of Winnepeg from 1988 to the date of his retirement."
http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-vs-dan-johnson-lawsuit-documents
Ball retired in 1996 and moved to Victoria, where he is a consultant.
http://www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=864
Source: DeSmogBlog
14 February, 2007
Interview by Human Events magazine:
If someone asked you where he should go to get a good antidote on the mainstream media's spin on global warming, where should he go?
Ball: "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."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19409
Source: Human Events Ball Interview 2007
Dr. Michael Mann sued Tim Ball and the Frontier Center For Public Policy for libel. The lawsuit arose from an interview with Ball that was posted on the Frontier Center website.
In the interview, Ball responds to an anonymous questioner regarding the "Climategate" scandal by saying "Michael Mann at Penn State should be in the State Pen, not Penn State."
Source: DeSmogBlog profile Tim Ball
EVENTS
Heartland Climate Conference 6
http://climateconference.heartland.org/about-2/speakers/
The relationship of Tim Ball, PhD to the event: Speaker
ORGANIZATIONS
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Press release on ACIA
Heartland Institute
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org
International Climate Science Coalition
Source: ICSC list of who's who
SOURCES
Tech Central Station Press release on ACIA
vWASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Today 11 climate experts sent a letter
(please see below) to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) who is the Chairman of the
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee and is holding a full
committee hearing this morning to hear testimony on the Arctic Climate
Impact Assessment (ACIA).
In the letter, the climate experts respond to statements made in the ACIA
that temperature changes in the Arctic provide an early indication of global
warming. The signers of the letter point out that sediment and ice core
samples show that the arctic has experienced past warming that can not be
attributed to greenhouse gas concentrations. There is also a history of
strong year-to-year variability of Arctic temperatures. The letter also
calls for the need for advances in Arctic climate science in both models and
measurements in order to assess a more complete picture of Arctic climate
understanding.
The following climate experts signed the letter: R. Tim Patterson, PhD,
Professor of Geology at Carleton University; Tim Ball, PhD, Retired -
Professor of Climatology at University of Winnipeg; Anthony Lupo, PhD,
Professor of Atmospheric Science at University of Missouri - Columbia; David
Legates, PhD, Associate Professor in Climatology at University of Delaware;
Pat Michaels, PhD, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of
Virginia; George Taylor, M.S. Meteorology; Gary D. Sharp, PhD Scientific
Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study; Roy W. Spencer, PhD
Principal Research Scientists, The University of Alabama in Huntsville; Jon
Reisman, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy; University of
Maine at Machias/ Maine Public Policy Institute Scholar, Willie Soon, PhD,
Science Director, Tech Central Station and Sallie Baliunas, PhD, Enviro-
Science Editor, Tech Central Station.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news/index_mail.shtml?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-16-2004/0002459044&EDATE=
DeSmogBlog
http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton
Human Events Ball Interview 2007
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19409
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Documentary)
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html
Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org
http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/
CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/beck.climateoffear/
ICSC list of who's who
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=28
DeSmogBlog profile Tim Ball
http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball