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)
KEY QUOTES
5 February, 2007
"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."
Source: Canada Free Press (2007)
5 November, 2004
"Yes, it warmed from 1680 up to 1940, but since 1940 it's been cooling down. The evidence for warming is because of distorted records. The satellite data, for example, shows cooling."
Source: Frontier Center for Public Policy website (2004)
14 February, 2007
"[The IPCC] report is the end product of a political agenda, and it is the political agenda of both the extreme environmentalists who of course think we are destroying the world. But it's also the political agenda of a group of people ... who believe that industrialization and development and capitalism and the Western way is a terrible system and they want to bring it down."
Source: Human Events Ball Interview 2007
14 February, 2007
"I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I hate being even pushed toward that, but I think there is a consensus conspiracy that's going on."
Source: Human Events Ball Interview 2007
2 May, 2007
"Many times I`ve been tempted to say why am I doing this? Why am I running my head into a concrete wall?"
"If I had gone along with the prevailing wisdom, the funding would have been enormous. Instead, I'm accused of getting the money from the oil company, which is simply a lie."
" I think that the truth is absolutely paramount, and if we abandon that, we`re lost. And I don`t care if people or the politicians choose to ignore me. That`s their choice. But what I don`t want is I don`t want them to ever be able to come back and say we weren`t told."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
2 May, 2007
"My whole career has been going around saying the climate changes all the time. Get used to it."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
2 May, 2007
"We now know for certain that the temperature changes before the CO2. And one of the fundamental assumptions that Gore doesn't understand is that in the theory of global warming due to humans is, as the CO2 goes up, the temperature will go up. Well, the ice floe records show it`s exactly the opposite."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
QUOTES
5 February, 2007
"I was accused by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki of being paid by oil companies. That is a lie. Apparently he thinks if the fossil fuel companies pay you have an agenda."
Source: Canada Free Press (2007)
5 February, 2007
"I am not alone in this journey against the prevalent myth. Several well-known names have also raised their voices. Michael Crichton, the scientist, writer and filmmaker is one of them. In his latest book, "State of Fear" he takes time to explain, often in surprising detail, the flawed science behind Global Warming and other imagined environmental crises."
Source: Canada Free Press (2007)
2 May, 2007
"When I started out in the 1970s, global cooling was the consensus."
Source: CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," May 2, 2007
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
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=
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
Canada Free Press (2007)
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm
Frontier Center for Public Policy website (2004)
http://www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=864
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