Timothy Francis "Team" Ball (born November 5, 1938) is a Canadian general speaker and author who was a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1971 until his retirement in 1996. The ball has worked with the Friends of Science and Natural Resources Stewardship Project, which challenges the consensus scientific opinion of significant anthropogenic global warming, and is a former research fellow at the Frontier Center for Public Policy. Ball also rejected a consensus scientific opinion on climate change, stating that "CO 2 is not a greenhouse gas that raises global temperatures."
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Professional education and careers
The ball received a bachelor's degree with honors in geography from the University of Winnipeg in 1970, followed by an MA from the University of Manitoba in 1971 and a PhD in climatology from Queen Mary University of London in England in 1983. The ball became an instructor at the University of Winnipeg on in 1971, and a lecturer the following year. He then served in the last capacity for 10 years. In 1982 he became an assistant professor there, and was promoted to professor in 1984 and full professor in 1988. He retired in 1996.
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Research and books
Ball founded the Rupert's Land Research Center, a historical community dedicated to promoting the history of the area formerly known as Rupert's Land, in 1984. He also served as its director from that time until 1996. The public placed special emphasis on the use of the Hudson Bay Company Archives. Ball has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in the field of climatological history, largely related to temperature reconstruction in Canada over the last few centuries. In 2003, Ball wrote a book entitled "Naturalist of the Eighteenth Century of Hudson Bay," reviewed in the American Indian Quarterly by Theodore Binnema of Northern British Columbia University in 2005, and by Fred Cooke at Auk in 2004.
In 2007, Ball was one of seven coauthors of a paper stating that "the spring temperatures around the Hudson Bay basin over the last 70 years (1932-2002) do not show significant warming trends," and that, as a result, " extrapolation of polar bear loss is very premature. "This paper is a" Point of View "article and is not reviewed by colleagues. While the paper was quoted by Sarah Palin to justify the clash with a polar bear list on a list of endangered species, his findings were disputed by reports from the US Geological Survey and other independent researchers, who concluded that man-made climate change tends to damage the polar bear population by 2050 The paper was also criticized by an expert at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who wrote that it "does not measure scientifically." A subsequent subsequent independent independent international study, Re-Assessment of Baffin Bay and the Sub-population of the Cane Basin Polar Bear: The Final Report to the Canadian-Greenland Joint Commission on Polar Bear has determined that the polar bear population has not declined overall and increased significantly in some area.
Ball is one of several writers of Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory, published in 2011. In 2014, Ball wrote a book titled The Discipline of Corruption in Climate Science , published by Stairway Press.
Views about climate change
Ball said he was against a consensus scientific opinion on climate change and has stated that he believes global warming is happening but that human production from carbon dioxide is not the cause. The ball rejects not only climate change caused by CO2 greenhouse gases but the presence of greenhouse effect CO2 itself.
He claims National Geographic that carbon dioxide that causes warming is just a hypothesis, but has been treated as fact because it fits into the political agenda and the views of environmentalists. He reiterated the view that man-made global warming was made by the environmental movement, notably Environment Canada, in a presentation he gave in June 2006 to Comox Valley Probus Club.
He is also a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM, an alternative media radio show. On July 21, 2011, when a guest on the show, he stated: "To show that CO2 is a pollutant when a very important gas in the atmosphere for all plant life and therefore for the oxygen it generates, it's just bullshit." He is also one of the signatories of the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change. Ball also, along with Tom Harris, argue that the National Climatic Data Center misleads the public by announcing premature results from their temperature dataset based on incomplete data, and then quietly updating the data as they gain access to all of it, usually reducing the warming trend in doing so. He also wrote about ocean acidification from the same skeptical point of view, arguing that "Even if CO2 rises to 560 ppm by 2050, as the IPCC predicts, this will only result in a reduction of 0.2 pH unit.this is still in the average estimation error global [of which 0.3 units]. "Ball also said that since he became a vocal opponent of a consensus position on global warming, he has received five death threats.
Michael E. Mann, who is in a lawsuit with Ball, called Ball "probably the most prominent denier of climate change in Canada." The Border Center for Public Policy, a Canadian think tank, stated that Ball has been debating anthropogenic global warming since the mid-1990s, and has asserted that global warming is caused by natural variations. Ball has spoken twice at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change, where he was presented as a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. However, critics point out that Ball is a professor of geography, not a climatology, and that the University of Winnipeg has never had a climatology department. Ball rejoined that climate program at The University of Winnipeg was part of the geography department in the early 1980s. He also confirmed that sites like DeSmogBlog have made false allegations about his professional credentials and qualifications.
From 2002 to 2007, Ball wrote 39 pieces of opinion and 32 letters to editors in 24 different Canadian newspapers, and from 2002 to 2012, he gave over 600 public sermons on global warming and environmental issues. Friends of Science maintains "Climate Digest" from an article written by Ball in 2008-09. Since then he has continued to advocate for government intervention to improve climate change.
In 2007 Ball appeared in The Great Global Warming Swindle, an hour and a quarter of British television documentaries that aired on Channel 4. Also in 2007, he participated in Exped: The Climate of Fear, a special presentation of the Glenn Beck Program, with Patrick Michaels, John Christy, and other climate skeptics. In 2010, he appeared on the Michael Coren Show.
Controversies and lawsuits
Ball claims, in an article written for the Calgary Herald, that he was the first person to receive a PhD in climatology in Canada, and that he has been a 28-year-old professor, claiming he also made a letter for the premier Canadian minister, Paul Martin. Dan Johnson, a professor of environmental science at Lethbridge University, replied to his claim on April 23, 2006, in a letter to the Herald that stated that when Ball received his PhD in 1983, "Canada already has a PhD in climatology," and that Ball was only a professor for eight years, not 28 as he claimed. However, Johnson only counts the Ball years as a full professor. In the letter, Johnson also wrote that Ball "shows no evidence of climate and atmospheric research, ignoring the fact that Ph's Ball thesis in 1983 was about climate and weather."
In response, Ball filed suit against Johnson. Johnson's defense statement is given by the Calgary Herald, which states that Ball "... has never had a reputation in the scientific community as a climate expert and the authority that records global warming," and that he "... is seen as a promoter paycheck on the agenda of the oil and gas industry rather than as a practicing scientist. "In the subsequent court case, Ball admits that he has only been a permanent professor for eight years, and that his doctorate is not in climatology but in broader geographical disciplines, and then withdraws the suit on June 8, 2007.
In February 2011, it was reported that climate scientist Andrew J. Weaver had sued Ball for a Ball article written for Canada Free Press that was later withdrawn. In the article, Ball describes Weaver as having no basic understanding of climate science and stated, incorrectly, that Weaver would not be involved in making the next IPCC report because he had concerns about his credibility. Ball argues that the lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to silence him because of his skeptical position on global warming.
Ball found himself amid controversy again in 2011, when he told the anonymous interviewer that Michael E. Mann, director of the Earth Systems Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, "must be in Pen State, not Penn State," because of Mann's role in controversy email Climatic Research Unit. Mann later sued Ball for defamation, stating that he was seeking punitive damages and for articles to be removed from the Frontier Center for Public Policy website, which was originally published. Some global warming contrarians defended Ball, with James Taylor of the Heartland Institute arguing that the comment was merely "humorous humiliation" and Fred Singer said Ball's comments were written as a joke and Mann "clearly" sued Ball.
In February, Andrew Weaver's match against Ball was dismissed completely. The judge noted that Ball's words "lacked enough credibility to make them trustworthy and therefore potentially libelous" and concluded that "the article was poorly written and did not advance a credible argument in favor of Dr. Ball's theory of climate science corruption." Simply put, a wise and informed person who reads the article is unlikely to place any stock in Dr.'s view. Ball... ".
Funding source
Some Ball critics have claimed that he has received funding from the fossil fuel industry, mainly through the Friends of Science organization, which was established with Ball and whose scientific advisory board sat down. For example, Peter Gorrie says in the Toronto Star that Friends of Science receives one-third of its funding from the oil industry. Ball himself has publicly rejected these claims, as did his wife, Marty Ball, and Michael Coren, who wrote an opinion column that Ball, "unlike many proponents of global warming, is not in anyone's pay."
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