Talk:Robert Balling

message: Its kinda weird and funny how this works:
1. the reference in the funding section that states he earned $400,000, points to salon.com
2. salon.com points to sourcewatch.org
3. sourcewatch.org has a link, but it doesn't work!
so where is the reference information? I'm removing the link until an appropriate source for the claim can be found.
The machine512 14:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: next time, check out archive.org before deleting dead links. Rd232 talk 11:06, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Funding Claims

message: The article doesn't mention anything about him having an actual background in the subject. And simply being put in charge of a climatology office doesn't prove he has expertise or education in climatology, any more than say Michael Brown was an expert on emergency management because he got appointed to run FEMA. Redxiv 03:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can decide this for yourself by looking at his CV, which can be accessed from his home page cited in the article (or go directly to it at http://geoplan.asu.edu/files/balling_2010.pdf).   Given that he has 6 books and over 150 journal articles, most in climate-related journals, it would be impractical to list them all in the Wikipedia article.  And that's just in the first 16 pages of a 71-page CV.  Whether you agree or disagree with him, he has a stronger publication record in climatology than any Wikipedia editor I'm aware of who's currently editing under their real name.  --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 04:18, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Is he really a climatologist?

message: In para. "5.1 Reaction to Balling's views on global warming", the article has criticism from Think Progress, a "a liberal American political blog."  Think Progress is stridently partisan, and the cited post is directly critical of Dr. Balling, eg "Dr. Balling is distorting the scientific data." Blogs are out of bounds for a BLP; I'll be removing this unless someone can provide a BLP-grade RS for the criticism. --Pete Tillman (talk) 00:26, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blog used for criticism 

message: Section = 109 BLP articles labelled "Climate Change Deniers" all at once. This article was placed in a "climate change deniers" category. After discussion on WP:BLPN and WP:CFD the category was deleted. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 16:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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