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Deniers:Scientists:Tim Ball
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Retired - Professor of Geography, University of Winnepeg
Senior Scientific Advisor, Friends of ScienceChairman and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP)
[edit] Key Quotes
[edit] February 5th, 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)
[edit] November 5th, 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)
[edit] February 14th, 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
[edit] February 14th, 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
[edit] May 2nd, 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
[edit] May 2nd, 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
[edit] May 2nd, 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
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[edit] February 5th, 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)
[edit] February 5th, 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)
[edit] May 2nd, 2007
"When I started out in the 1970s, global cooling was the consensus."
Source:CNN, Glenn Beck special "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," 2, May 2007
[edit] Key Deeds
[edit] March 8th, 2007
Appeared in documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
Source:The Great Global Warming Swindle (Documentary)
[edit] May 2nd, 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
[edit] December 13th, 2007
Signed an open letter to the Secretary General of the UN saying that the UN Climate Conference in Bali was taking the world in the wrong direction. The letter was also sent to the Heads of States of Signatory Countries.
Source:Open Letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations. Taken from Science and Public Policy Site, 12.18.07
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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" Link. 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." Link. Ball retired in 1996 and moved to Victoria, where he is a consultant.
Source:Link
Source:DeSmogBlog (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."
Sources:Human Events Article February, 2007
Human Events Ball Interview 2007
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Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
signed TCS letter to McCain 10-16-04
Source:Tech Central Station Press release on ACIA
Heartland Institute
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source:Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org