EnglandResidenceCitizenshipCanadianAlma mater,Known forOpposing mainstream consensus on climate changeSpouse(s)Marty BallAwardsClarence Atchison Award for Excellence in Community ServiceClifford J. Robson Memorial Award for Teaching ExcellenceScientific careerFields,Institutions(1983)B.W. AtkinsonWebsiteTimothy Francis Ball (born November 5, 1938) is a public speaker and writer who was a professor in the Department of Geography at the from 1971 until his retirement in 1996. Ball has worked with and, which oppose the consensus scientific opinion of significant anthropogenic, and is a former research fellow at the. Ball also rejects the consensus, stating that ' is not a that raises global temperature.' Contents.Education and professional career Ball received a bachelor's degree with honors in geography from the in 1970, followed by an M.A.
From the in 1971 and a PhD in Geography with a specific focus on historical climatology from in England in 1983. Ball became an instructor at the University of Winnipeg in 1971, and a lecturer the following year. He then served in the latter capacity for 10 years. In 1982 he became an assistant professor there, and was promoted to associate professor in 1984 and full professor in 1988.
He retired from teaching in 1996.Research and books Ball founded the Rupert's Land Research Centre, a historical society dedicated to promoting the history of the area formerly known as, in 1984. He also served as its director from then until 1996. The society placed a particular emphasis on the use of the. Ball has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in the field of, most of which pertain to reconstructing temperatures in Canada during the past several centuries.
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In 2003, Ball co-authored a book entitled 'Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay,' which was reviewed in the by Theodore Binnema of the in 2005, as well as by Fred Cooke in in 2004.In 2007 Ball was one of seven co-authors of a paper arguing that 'spring air temperatures around the Hudson Bay basin for the past 70 years (1932–2002) show no significant warming trend,' and that, as a result, 'the extrapolation of polar bear disappearance is highly premature.' The paper was a 'Viewpoint' article and was not. While the paper was cited by to justify opposition to listing polar bears on the endangered-species list, its findings were contradicted by reports from the and other independent researchers, who concluded that man-made climate change was likely to devastate polar-bear populations by 2050. The paper was also criticized by an expert at the, who wrote that it 'doesn't measure up scientifically.' A subsequent in depth international independent study, Re-Assessment of the Baffin Bay and Kane Basin Polar Bear Subpopulations: Final Report to the Canada-Greenland Joint Commission on Polar Bear has determined that polar bear populations are not declining overall and are increasing significantly in some areas.Ball was one of several authors of Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory, published in 2011.
In 2014, Ball wrote a book entitled The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science, published by Stairway Press.Views on climate change Ball has said he opposes the consensus and has stated that he believes global warming is occurring but that human production of is not the cause. Ball rejects not only CO2 greenhouse gas–induced climate change but the existence of the CO2 itself.He told that carbon dioxide causing warming was just a hypothesis, but had been treated as fact because it fit a political agenda and the views of the environmentalists. He reiterated the view that man-made global warming was fabricated by the environmental movement, particularly, in a presentation he gave in June 2006 to the Probus Club.He has also been a frequent guest on, an alternative media radio show. On July 21, 2011, while a guest on the show, he stated: 'To suggest that CO2's a pollutant when it's an extremely important gas in the atmosphere for all plant life and therefore for the oxygen that's produced, is just nonsense.'
He is also one of the signatories of the. Ball has also, along with, argued that the misleads the public by announcing premature results from their temperature datasets based on incomplete data, and then quietly updating the data when they gain access to all of it, usually diminishing the warming trend in doing so. He has also written about from a similarly skeptical point of view, arguing that 'Even if CO2 increases to 560 ppm by 2050, as the IPCC predict, this would only result in a 0.2 unit reduction of pH. This is still within the error of the estimate of global average which is 0.3 units.' Ball has also said that since he became a vocal opponent of the consensus position on global warming, he has received five death threats. Climate change-related activism has called Ball 'perhaps the most prominent climate change denier in Canada.' The, a Canadian think tank, states that Ball has disputed since the mid 1990s, and has asserted that global warming is due to natural variations.
Ball has spoken twice at 's, where he was presented as a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. However, critics point out that Ball was a professor of geography, not climatology, and that the University of Winnipeg has never had a climatology department. Ball rejoins that the climate program at The University of Winnipeg was part of the geography department in the early 1980s. He also asserts that websites such as have made false charges about his credentials and professional qualifications.From 2002 to 2007, Ball wrote 39 opinion pieces and 32 letters to the editor in 24 different Canadian newspapers, and from 2002 to 2012, he gave over 600 public talks about global warming and various environmental issues. Friends of Science maintains a 'Climate Digest' of articles written by Ball in 2008-09.
Since then he has continued to advocate against governmental intervention to ameliorate climate change.In 2007 Ball appeared on, an hour and a quarter-long British television documentary that aired on. Also in 2007, he participated in Exposed: The Climate of Fear, a special presentation of the, with, and other climate sceptics. In 2010, he appeared on the. Controversies and lawsuits Ball claimed, in an article written for the, that he was the first person to receive a PhD in climatology in Canada, and that he had been a professor for 28 years, claims he also made in a letter to then-prime minister of Canada,. Dan Johnson, a professor of environmental science at the, countered his claim on April 23, 2006, in a letter to the Herald stating that when Ball received his PhD in 1983, 'Canada already had PhDs in climatology,' and that Ball had only been a professor for eight years, rather than 28 as he had claimed. Johnson, however, counted only Ball's years as a. In the letter, Johnson also wrote that Ball “did not show any evidence of research regarding climate and atmosphere, ignoring the fact Ball's PhD thesis in 1983 was on climate and weather.”In response, Ball filed a lawsuit against Johnson.
Johnson's statement of defence was provided by the Calgary Herald, which stated that Ball '.never had a reputation in the scientific community as a noted climatologist and authority on global warming,' and that he '.is viewed as a paid promoter of the agenda of the oil and gas industry rather than as a practicing scientist.' In the ensuing court case, Ball acknowledged that he had only been a tenured professor for eight years, and that his doctorate was not in climatology but rather in the broader discipline of geography, and subsequently withdrew the lawsuit on June 8, 2007.In February 2011, it was reported that climate scientist had sued Ball over an article Ball wrote for the which was later retracted. In the article, Ball described Weaver as lacking a basic understanding of climate science and stated, incorrectly, that Weaver would not be involved in the production of the IPCC's next report because he had concerns about its credibility. Ball contended that the lawsuit was nothing more than an attempt to silence him because of his skeptical position on global warming.In February, 2018 Andrew Weaver's defamation suit against Ball was dismissed completely. The judge noted that Ball's words 'lack a sufficient air of credibility to make them believable and therefore potentially defamatory' and concluded that the “article is poorly written and does not advance credible arguments in favour of Dr. Ball’s theory about the corruption of climate science. Simply put, a reasonably thoughtful and informed person who reads the article is unlikely to place any stock in Dr.
Ball’s views.' .The 's web site published a February 2011 interview, in which Ball told an anonymous interviewer that, director of the Earth System Science Center at, 'should be in the State Pen, not Penn State'. This referred to Mann's role in the. Mann then sued Ball and Frontier Centre for libel, and stated that he was seeking punitive damages and for the article to be removed from the web site.On 7 June 2019 the Frontier Centre For Public Policy published a retraction and apology and settled their part of the case with Mann. On 21 March 2019 Tim Ball had applied to the court to dismiss the action for delay, this request was granted at a hearing on 22 August 2019, and court costs were awarded to Ball. The actual defamation claims were not judged, but instead the case was dismissed due to delay by Mann's legal team. Funding sources Some of Ball's critics have claimed that he has received funding from the fossil fuel industry, especially through the organization, which Ball co-founded and whose scientific advisory board he sits upon.
For example, Peter Gorrie said in the that Friends of Science received a third of its funding from the oil industry. Ball himself has publicly denied these claims, as have both his wife, Marty Ball; and the 's Michael Coren, who wrote an opinion column stating that Ball, 'unlike so many global warming advocates, is not in the pay of anybody'. References. 15 November 2004.
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Pp. xiii. (PDF). April 1988. These papers include:. Ball, T. F.; Kingsley, R. 'Instrumental temperature records at two sites in Central Canada: 1768 to 1910'.
Climatic Change. 6: 39. Ball, T. 'Historical evidence and climatic implications of a shift in the boreal forest tundra transition in central Canada'.
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'The migration of geese as an indicator of climate change in the southern Hudson Bay region between 1715 and 1851'. Climatic Change. 5: 85–93. Ball, T. 'Climate of two locations on the Southwestern corner of Hudson Bay: AD 1720–1729'. International Journal of Climatology. 14 (10): 1151–1168.
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R.; Baliunas, S.; Ball, T. F.; Hancock, L. 'Polar bears of western Hudson Bay and climate change: Are warming spring air temperatures the 'ultimate' survival control factor?' Ecological Complexity. 4 (3): 73. 28 October 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
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That it has not been resolved is because the plaintiff has not given it the priority that he should have. In the circumstances, justice requires that the action be dismissed and, accordingly, I do hereby dismiss the action for delay.' ). Moore, John (23 February 2012). Retrieved 5 February 2014.
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