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   ristian.last-days   
   From: kingkongg@iglou.com   
      
   "James"  wrote in message   
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   > 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.   
   >   
   > UPDATE: to make matters worse, it looks like Ball's "global warming is   
   > good for us" message is running front page in the right-wing uber   
   > site, The Drudge Report.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Nice assasination. Ill bet 97% agree with you.   
      
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