From: grmerrick@shaw.ca   
      
   On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 14:10:34 -0700 (PDT), Kym Horsell   
    wrote:   
      
   >Just noticed this more recent piece:   
   >   
   >[Tim Ball inna noos agin!]   
   >   
   >   
   >Canadian Court Slams Trump Climate Advisor in Successful Libel Case   
   >DeSmog, 27 May 2020   
   >Dr. Tim Ball, who a Canadian court earlier derided as incompetent,   
   >ill-intended, and apparently indifferent to the truth, has been further   
   >rebuffed in the British Columbia Court of Appeal and must now stand libel   
   >for a 9-year-old attack against prominent Canadian climate scientist   
   >(and outgoing BC Green Party leader) Dr. Andrew Weaver. [...]   
   >Tim Ball has been a long-standing, less-than-credible scourge in the   
   >international climate conversation, overstating his own qualifications and   
   >disparaging the legitimate climate science community. In 2006, for example,   
   >he wrote a withering opinion piece in the Calgary Herald, at the end of   
   >which he claimed to have been "the first climatology PhD in Canada."   
   >As the Alberta academic Dr. Dan Johnson pointed out in a letter to the editor,   
   >this wasn't even close to being the truth: Canada had minted many previous   
   >climate PhDs - and, in any event, Ball's geography degree barely qualifies   
   >in the relevant area of climate science.   
      
   Of course when you understand what these old shills are all about,they   
   should obviously be in jail for their crimes. Poor old Tim is too   
   feeble for jail so maybe they should just fine him for his crimes and   
   take away all his money.   
      
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