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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">=</li></ul><div></div><div>A <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/2007/04/16/4033755-sun.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">column</a> in the Toronto Sun yesterday sets a new low in the disingenuous disinformation campaign by the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/quick/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">NRSP</a>).NRSP Executive Director Tom Harris (the PR guy) and Chair Dr. Tim Ball (the other PR guy) launch an attack on the well-respected Dr. John Stone, vice-chair of Working Group 2 (<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM13apr07.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">WG2)</a> of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), characterizing him as a “highly politicized bureaucrat” who has been too quick to accept that the effect of CO2 on climate change is settled science.Harris and Ball instead advance the testimony of their witness, “Dr. Richard Courtney, a UK-based climate science consultant and IPCC expert reviewer,” (my emphasis) who says that climate science is anything but settled.But <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_S.Courtney" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Richard Courtney</a> is hardly a source to be taken seriously. In fact, there is every reason to believe that if he has a Ph.D. at all, he got it out of a box of cracker jacks.Courtney is really just another PR guy. He's a union official and a Technical Editor for CoalTrans International, the journal of the international coal trading industry, and his principal expertise seems to be in coming up with imaginative and self-promoting ways to suggest that climate change is either not happening or that its cause remains a deep, dark mystery. It would be embarrassing to any real scientist to be seen on the same newspaper page with this guy.Having presented Courtney as something he is not, Harris and Ball move on to one of their other favourite “experts,” Dr. Tim Patterson, who repeats the strained claim that climate change is an unavoidable result of a warming sun, a position that has been conclusively and repeatedly dismissed, including in <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-post-ducks-correction-repeats-slander" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">this reference</a> by one of the world's foremost astrophysicists.We have seen before how shameless Harris and Ball can be in representing their energy industry <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-controlled-by-energy-lobbyists" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">clients</a>. But it never ceases to surprise me that big city dailies - even dailies as undiscriminating as the Toronto Sun - continue to publish their palaver when 30 second on Google would have proven to be what it is: fallacious and silly. </div><div>=</div><div><ol class="search-results" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; list-style: none; line-height: 17.6px;"><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-not-really-science-people" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP: Not Really Science People | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Oct 17, 2006 ... The new public relations group calling itself the Natural Resources Stewardship Project is a classic example of an astroturf group - a ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li></ol><div>Two of the three <a href="http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/corpdir/dataOnline/corpns_re?company_select=4326741#directors" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Directors</a> on the board of the <a href="http://www.nrsp.com/background.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Natural Resources Stewardship Project</a> are senior executives of the <a href="http://www.highparkgroup.com/default.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">High Park Advocacy Group</a>, a Toronto-based lobby firm that specializes in “energy, environment and ethics.”Timothy Egan, is the president of the High Park Advocacy Group, and <a href="https://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/secure/ec/lrrs/search.do;jsessionid=0000UVxwWQcANcnQGhVl9N4A7Cm:10hc5g1ed" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">a registered lobbyist</a> for the Canadian Gas Association and the Canadian Electricity Association. Julio Legos is the High Park Group’s Director of Regulatory Affairs, whose <a href="http://www.highparkgroup.com/jlagos.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">biography</a>says, “Julio’s practice at HPG is focused on federal and provincial energy and environmental law and policy, particularly as they affect Canadian industry.”The Executive Director of the NRSP, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Harris" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Tom Harris</a>, is also a former High Park consultant, and the NRSP mailing address is in the building where, until recently, High Park maintained its Toronto offices.It appears that High Park has taken a page from the APCO-Worldwide playbook. APCO is the PR and lobbying firm that created a <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/astroturf-the-only-grass-that-withstands-toxic-friends-of-science" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">“grassroots” organization called The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC)</a> on behalf of tobacco giant Philip Morris in the 1990s. In that situation, Steve Milloy “quit” APCO to set up a pro-tobacco website called<a href="http://www.junkscience.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">www.JunkScience.com</a>. Milloy later took over as executive director of TASSC and continues, today, to lobby against smoking restrictions. Documents, since made public, show that APCO established TASSC specifically to create the appearance of an arm’s length organization supporting tobacco’s cause.In this instance, the creation of the NRSP as an “arm’s length” “grassroots” organization also enabled High Park and to avoid identifying who is paying for the NRSP’s public campaign against climate change regulations. The federal government’s own website makes this kind of “grassroots” lobbying subject to the restrictions of the <a href="http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/L-12.4/199278.html" title="http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/L-12.4/199278.html blocked::http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/L-12.4/199278.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Lobbyists’ Registration Act</a> (subject to an important loophole).The Question and Answer section under the <a href="http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/lr-el.nsf/en/lr00046e.html#11" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">General Registration Requirements</a> of the act states:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px; line-height: 18.59px;">“4. What is “grass-roots” lobbying?“Grass-roots lobbying is a communications technique that encourages individual members of the public or organizations to communicate directly with public office holders in an attempt to influence the decisions of government. Such efforts primarily rely on use of the media or advertising, and result in mass letter writing and facsimile campaigns, telephone calls to public office holders, and public demonstrations.”</blockquote>(<a href="http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=888142" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Here</a>, for the record, is a recent example of the NRSP’s Tom Harris doing just that.)But setting up a separate organization allows High Park to claim an exception, also to be found in the Q&A section of the<a href="http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/lr-el.nsf/en/lr00046e.html#11" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">General Registration Requirements</a>:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px; line-height: 18.59px;">“5. I am involved in organizing and directing a grass-roots lobbying campaign. Do I have to register?“If you are a registered lobbyist, you must report grass-roots lobbying as a communications technique. If you are not engaged in any registerable lobbying activity, it is not necessary to register for the grass-roots lobbying campaign.”</blockquote>Thus, by removing himself from the High Park employee list and taking an office across the hall (the NRSP mailing address is #2-263 Roncesvalles Avenue, in Toronto; High Park’s address <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031024171640/http:/www.highparkgroup.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">was</a>, until very recently, #4-263 Roncesvalles Avenue) Tom Harris is able to carry out any direction Timothy Egan may be giving in this “grassroots” campaign against energy industry regulation without fulfilling what the <a href="http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/lr-el.nsf/en/lr20030e.html#4" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Lobbyist act</a> describes as the “obligation to provide accurate information to public office holders and to disclose the identity of the person or organization on whose behalf the representation is made and the purpose of the representation.”The federal Lobbyists Registry was created specifically so that politicians and members of the public can know who is paying to influence the political decision-making process. To that end, the federal government’s Lobbyist <a href="http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/lr-el.nsf/en/lr01044e.html#code" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Code of Conduct</a> says:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px; line-height: 18.59px;">“1. Identity and purpose“Lobbyists shall, when making a representation to a public office holder, disclose the identity of the person or organization on whose behalf the representation is made, as well as the reasons for the approach.”</blockquote>But Tom Harris is not technically a lobbyist and Timothy Egan and Julio Legos may well be “volunteering” their time as directors of the NRSP.So, Egan is a registered lobbyist for the <a href="https://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/secure/ec/lrrs/registrationSummary.do;jsessionid=00005mj-irVv8srvVSpJovWLIsC:10hc5g1ed?browse=1&language=eng&regId=50432" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Canadian Gas Association</a>, which is part of an energy industry coalition that includes the Canadian Nuclear Association, the Canadian Association of Oil Well Drilling Contractors, the Canadian Energy Alliance, the Propane Gas Association of Canada, Inc., the Petroleum Services Association of Canada, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the Coal Association of Canada, (as well as some conservation and alternative energy interests such as the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance, the Canadian Wind Energy Association and Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Canada). But while a paid apologist for this fossil-fuel-dominated group directs NRSP operations, and while the NRSP's stated purpose is to block government action on climate change - the Canadian public has no right to ask who's paying the bills for the NRSP campaign.That may be legal, but it doesn't seem right.----</div><ol class="search-results" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; list-style: none; line-height: 17.6px;"><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-controlled-by-energy-lobbyists" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP Controlled by Energy Lobbyists | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Jan 18, 2007 ... Two of the three Directors on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project are senior executives of the High Park Advocacy Group, ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-climate-change-deniers-are-us" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP: Climate Change Deniers-Are-Us | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Nov 4, 2006 ... Congratulations to Tom Harris, executive director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (better known as Not Really Science People), ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/nrsp" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP 1 | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Jul 2, 2008 ... It's penned by NRSP's Tom “I can't disclose my funding sources “ Harris in reaction to a CBC rebroadcasting of the Fifth Estate's “The Denial ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/are-the-estonians-funding-the-nrsp" style="text-decoration: none;">Are the Estonians funding the NRSP? | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Nov 6, 2006 ... According to a recent CanWest News Service article, the NRSP's executive director, Tom Harris, states that “a confidentiality agreement doesn't ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/taxonomy/term/1624" style="text-decoration: none;">Nrsp 1 | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Feb 14, 2012 ... Modern anti-science was created by the tobacco industry in the 1950s and then used against climate science, often by the same ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsps-tom-harris-on-the-offensive-after-cbc-denial-machine-rebroadcast-last-night" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP's Tom Harris on the offensive after CBC "Denial Machine ...</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Oct 25, 2007 ... Here's a breathless email sent to me today by an anonymous source. It's penned by NRSP's Tom “I can't disclose my funding sources “ Harris in ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://desmogblog.com/nrsp-team-finally-earns-publishing-credit" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP Team Finally Earns Publishing Credit | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Oct 23, 2006 ... Just a week after I marvelled (see, NRSP: Not Really Serious People) at the low profile being maintained by Canada's newest “environmental ...desmogblog.com | Document</div></li><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-not-really-sufficiently-principled" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP: Not Really Sufficiently Principled | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Apr 17, 2007 ... NRSP Executive Director Tom Harris (the PR guy) and Chair Dr. Tim Ball (the other PR guy) launch an attack on the well-respected Dr. John ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-peddling-deceptive-statistics-about-ipcc" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP Peddling Deceptive Statistics About IPCC | DeSmogBlog</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Dec 17, 2007 ... The IPCC had indeed rejected a lot of comments in this section, but 90 per cent came from a single reviewer: NRSP insider Dr. Vincent Gray, ...</div></li></ol></div><div>==</div><div>BALL</div><div>
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</li><li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ph.D. (Doctor of Science), University of London, England.</li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">M.A., University of  Manitoba.</li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">B.A., University of Winnipeg.</li>

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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a>

<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Background</h2>

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tin Ball was a professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996. He is a prolific speaker and writer in the skeptical science community.

He has been Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the now-defunct <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP)</a>, “scientific advisor” to the Exxon-funded <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Friends of Science (FoS)</a>, and is associated with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP)</a> as well as numerous other think tanks and right-wing organizations.

The NRSP's list of “scientific advisors” includes <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/r-timothy-patterson" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tim Patterson</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tad-murty" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tad Murty</a> and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sallie Baliunas</a>, all of which are also listed as advisors to the FOS.

DeSmog <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-controlled-by-energy-lobbyists" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">uncovered</a> that two of the three directors on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project were <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060701050941/www.highparkgroup.com/team.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">at one time</a> senior executives of the <a href="http://www.highparkgroup.com/index.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">High Park Advocacy Group</a>, a Toronto-based lobby firm that specializes in “energy, environment and ethics.”

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“What's wrong with global warming? There are lots of positive benefits to global warming.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a>

“CFC's were never a problem… . it's only because the sun is changing.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a>

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Ball and the organizations he is affiliated with have <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060707193003/http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=2" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">repeatedly made the claim</a> that he is the “first Canadian PhD in climatology.” Ball <a href="http://www.john-daly.com/guests/martin.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">himself claimed</a> he was “one of the first climatology PhD's in the world.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a>

Many have <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/06/dear_tim_ball_sue_me.php" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">pointed out</a> that there have been numerous PhD's in the field prior to Ball.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a>

Ball was a former professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996. The University of Winnipeg never had an office of Climatology. His degree was in historical geography and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/dr-tim-ball-the-lie-that-just-wont-die" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">not climatology</a>.

June 30 - July 1, 2011

Ball was a <a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/timothy-ball/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">speaker</a> at the Heartland Institute's 6th International Conference on Climate Change. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[6]</a>

March 25, 2011

<a href="http://www.met.psu.edu/people/mem45" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dr. Michael Mann</a> sued Tim Ball and the Frontier Center For Public Policy for libel. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/michael-mann-suing-tim-ball-libel" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The lawsuit</a> arose from an interview with Ball that was posted on the <a href="http://www.fcpp.org/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Frontier Center website</a>.

In the interview, Ball responds to an anonymous questioner regarding the “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/second-expert-panel-shows-climategate-was-sham" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Climategate</a>” scandal by saying “Michael Mann at Penn State should be in the State Pen, not Penn State.”

Feb 2, 2011

<a href="http://climate.uvic.ca/people/weaver/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Andrew Weaver</a>, a University of Victoria Professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modeling and Analysis, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/michael-mann-suing-tim-ball-libel" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">filed suit for libel</a> against Tim Ball.

The suit arose from an article Ball wrote for Canada Free Press which accused Weaver of being uninformed about climate and unqualified to teach.

October, 2009

Ball <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/falloftherepublic" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">appeared as a “climatologist” in a documentary produced by Alex Jones</a> titled The Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[7]</a>

March, 2008

Ball was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's First International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC1). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[8]</a>

March 8, 2007

Tim Ball made a prominent <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/dsblog-game-whats-wrong-with-this-picture" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">appearance</a> on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Great Global Warming Swindle</a>, appearing as an “<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover030607.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">eminent scientist</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[9]</a>

Nov 10, 2007

In a <a href="http://www.fcpp.org/images/publications/FifthEstateDeniersCBC-whole%20piece.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">2007 FCPP special report</a>, Tim Ball and Tom Harris criticized The Fifth Estate's <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">broadcast</a> of The Denial Machine, describing it as “docu-ganda.”  Ball claimed that he was filmed without his consent.

Ball also asserted that The Denial Machine violated CBC's “Journalistic Standards and Practices.” He further accused the CBC of misrepresenting the credentials of skeptical scientists. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[10]</a>

He goes on to criticize James Hoggan, and more specifically CBC, for not disclosing Hoggan's <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/about_us" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">connection</a> to the David Suzuki Foundation (something Mr. Hoggan has made no attempt to hide).

Sept 1, 2006

On September 1st, Ball launched a libel suit against Dr. Dan Johnson and the Calgary Herald over a letter the paper ran on April 23, 2006. Johnson is a Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Lethbridge.

Ball had written an article that attacked the qualifications of renowned climate change author Tim Flannery, in which the Herald described Ball as “the first climatology PhD in Canada and … a professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years.”

Johnson's letter to the editor challenged those details, noting that when Ball received his PhD (in Geography) in 1983, “Canada already had <a href="http://people.uleth.ca/_{dan.johnson/first_phds_in_climatology_in_canada.htm}" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PhDs in climatology</a> and it is important to recognize them and their research.” Johnson also pointed out that Ball had been a professor for a much shorter time (Ball later admitted eight years), during which Ball did “not show any evidence of research regarding climate and atmosphere.”

The <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-vs-dan-johnson-lawsuit-documents" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Calgary Herald's Statement of Defence</a>, filed with the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, dismissed Ball’s credibility saying that “The Plantiff (Dr. Ball) is viewed as a paid promoter of the agenda of the oil and gas industry rather than as a practicing scientist.”

Ball subsequently <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ball-bails-on-johnson-lawsuit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">dropped his lawsuit</a>.

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Friends of Science (FoS) </a>— Past “Consultant,” member of “Scientific Advisory Board.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[11]</a>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) </a>— Chairman. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[12]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[13]</a>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Frontier Center for Public Policy (FCPP) </a>— “<a href="http://www.fcpp.org/people.php?category_id=21" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Senior Fellow</a>,” Past Member, Board of Advisors. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[14]</a>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Heartland Institute </a>— “<a href="http://heartland.org/timothy-ball" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Heartland Expert</a>.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> [15]</a>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Climate_Science_Coalition" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) </a>— Member, “Scientific Advisory Board.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> [16]</a>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tech_Central_Station" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tech Central Station (TCS) </a>— <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050411234113/http://techcentralstation.com/bioballtim.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Contributor</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball#s17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[17]</a>

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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A search of 22,000 academic journals shows that over the course of his career Ball published four pieces of original research in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">peer-reviewed</a> journals on the subject of climate change.

According to Google Scholar, his most recent peer-reviewed article on climate change was published in 1986, titled “<a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/r02l8n0m3782v645/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Historical evidence and climatic implications of a shift in the boreal forest tundra transition in central Canada</a>.”

Other Publications:

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://multi-science.metapress.com/content/y3k1241725245438/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Climate Change: Dangers of a Singular Approach and Consideration of a Sensible Strategy</a>” (2009).</li>

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<p class="rteindent1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 40px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Journal Background: In a <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/docs/thacker/skeptics.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">1995 article written by Paul Thacker</a>, Energy and Environment was described as being a journal skeptics can go to when they are rejected by the mainstream peer-reviewed science publications.

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=EJ303510" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Climate and History: A Connection That Cannot Be Ignored</a>” (1984).</li>

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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tim Ball is a <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-67107/trust-us-were-the-media" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">prolific writer</a> of newspaper articles, opinion pieces, and letters to the editor questioning the existence of climate change.

Ball is also the <a href="http://www.slayingtheskydragondeathofthegreenhousegastheory.com/authors.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">lead author</a> of <a href="http://www.slayingtheskydragondeathofthegreenhousegastheory.com/authors.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Slaying the Sky Dragon: Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory</a>, a book slated for publication in 2011. Slaying the Sky Dragon is <a href="http://www.slayingtheskydragondeathofthegreenhousegastheory.com/intro.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">described</a> as a “comprehensive refutation of the greenhouse gas theory (GHG).”

<a name="s1" id="s1" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://www.fcpp.org/people.php?category_id=21" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Frontier Research Fellows</a>,” Frontier Center for Public Policy. Accessed November 20, 2011.

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<a name="s2" id="s2" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4cc39711-79fc-43ad-a2c0-73a1b4fe88a2&k=70079" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Climate of controversy</a>,” Ottawa Citizen, May 18, 2006.

<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/65p7m7Wf5" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Archived with WebCite</a>, February 29, 2012.

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<a name="s3" id="s3" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060707193003/http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=2" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">About Us: Scientific Advisory Board</a>,” Friends of Science. Archived July 7, 2008.

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<a name="s4" id="s4" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://www.john-daly.com/guests/martin.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dear Mr. Martin</a>,” Letter from Tim Ball to M.P. Paul Martin. Retrieved February, 2012, from John-Daly.com. <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/65p80M5Fc" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Archived February 29, 2012</a>, with WebCite.

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<a name="s5" id="s5" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>Tim Lambert. “<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/06/dear_tim_ball_sue_me.php" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dear Tim Ball: sue me</a>,” Deltoid, June 23, 2006.

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<a name="s6" id="s6" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/timothy-ball/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Timothy Ball: 6th International Conference on Climate Change</a>,” the Heartland Institute.

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<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/falloftherepublic" name="s7" id="s7" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama</a>, Alex Jones Productions, October 21, 2009. Archived video at the Internet Archive.

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<a name="s8" id="s8" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/timothy-ball/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Timothy Ball: 6th International Conference on Climate Change</a>,” the Heartland Institute.

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<a name="s9" id="s9" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>Judi McLeod. “<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover030607.htm" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Climatologist Tim Ball's star on the rise</a>,” Canada Free Press, March 6, 2007.

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<a name="s10" id="s10" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>Tim Ball and Tom Harris. “CBC’s continuing denial of the climate science debate” (<a href="http://www.fcpp.org/images/publications/FifthEstateDeniersCBC-whole%20piece.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>), Frontier Center for Public Policy, November 10, 2007.

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<a name="s11" id="s11" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060707193003/http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=2" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">About Us: Scientific Advisory Board</a>,” Friends of Science. Archived July 7, 2008.

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<a name="s12" id="s12" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Natural Resources Stewardship Project</a>,” SourceWatch.

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<a name="s13" id="s13" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/10/new_canadian_astroturf_group.php" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">New Canadian Astroturf Group</a>,” Deltoid, October 13, 2006.

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<a name="s14" id="s14" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Ball" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tim Ball</a>” SourceWatch profile.

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<a name="s15" id="s15" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://heartland.org/timothy-ball" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Heartland Experts: Timothy Ball</a>,” The Heartland Institute.

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<a name="s16" id="s16" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280&Itemid=86" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Who We Are</a>,” International Climate Science Coalition. Accessed November 20, 2011.

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<a name="s17" id="s17" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>“<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050411234113/http://techcentralstation.com/bioballtim.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dr. Tim Ball</a>,” Tech Central Station. Archived April 11, 2005.

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“<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-not-really-science-people" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">NRSP: Not Really Science People</a>,” DeSmogBlog, October 17, 2006.

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<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1164" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Tim Ball, PhD</a>.

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