Tim Ball

Timothy Francis "Tim" BallNot to be confused with Calvinball was a credential-fudging denialist crank. He had no relevant credentials on climate change.
==Credential fudging and climate denial==
Ball was a professor of geography with a focus in historical climate who retired in 1996, but has been represented in the media as a "climatologist" (Canada's first, don'tcha know?) who has held a professorship for upward of twenty-eight years. However, he carefully omits this in his curriculum vitae.Tim Ball's CV When the Calgary Herald published a letterTim Ball Sues for $325,000, Deltoid that questioned the credentials listed for Ball (in an article in which Ball attacked Tim Flannery"Aussies' Suzuki heavier on rhetoric than on science" Ball's original letter). Ball sued for libel, while admitting that he had not been a professor for twenty-eight years.Tim Ball vs. Dan Johnson lawsuit documents archived at DeSmog Blog (Don't think too hard about that or it might make your head hurt.) Before the suit was dropped (against 3 defendants), Tim Lambert of Deltoid dared Ball to sue him, too.Dear Tim Ball: Sue Me, Deltoid Lambert also expressed doubt over the relevance of Ball's research:
Eli Rabett has created the "Tim Ball Award for Resume Stretching" in his honor.The Tim Ball Nominees, Eli Rabett
Even within the deniosphere, Ball didn't come up with anything new or impressive. All he did was constantly repeat points refuted a thousand times about solar cycles and how carbon dioxide is plant food. For example, take a look at his ingenious "refutation" of rising sea levels where he just puts some ice cubes in a glass and lets them melt.
==Creationism==
Ball also seems to have been a creationist of some sort. In an op-ed in Canada Free Press, he wrote:
On his website, he attacked Richard Dawkins and claimed science, evolution, and environmentalism are religions. He also believed that the Bible's predictions have been just as verified as those made by science:
 
When you take his global warming denialism together with creationism and his admiration for Immanuel Velikovsky,"Scientific Reaction to Velikovsky Symptomatic of Climate Science Debate", Tim Ball there's clear evidence for crank magnetism.
==Lawsuits turning around and kicking Ball==
In 2011, Ball found himself at the receiving end of a couple of libel suits. In February, University of Victoria climatologist (and now a member of the British Columbia legislature) Andrew Weaver filed a lawsuit against Ball for his op-eds that accused Weaver of incompetence and corruption. In March, Penn State climatologist Michael Mann filed a lawsuit against Ball and his think tank for publishing statements on their websites that claimed Mann was complicit in a "cover-up" of Climategate and that he had committed scientific fraud.Weaver v. Ball and Mann v. Ball lawsuit documents archived at DeSmog Blog.
Since the suits were launched Canada Free Press has retracted one of the interviews with Ball on the website.More libel troubles for Tim Ball, Carbon Fixated Furthermore, they seem to have scrubbed a good deal of Ball's articles and Ball-related material.No columns are currently listed under Ball's profile at the website. and his archives redirect to the homepage.
In February, 2018, the suit by Weaver was dismissed on the grounds that Ball's attack on Weaver was so stupid and inept that it couldn't be considered libelous thus doing no injury to Weaver's reputation to an informed reader. Judge Finds Written Attack on Climate Scientist Too Ludicrous to be Libel Therefore the official judgement of the Canadian court system is that Tim Ball is either an incompetent idiot or someone pretending to be an incompetent idiot.
In August 2019, the Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed the suit against Ball by Micheal Mann for technical reasons,Tim Ball Pleads For Mercy As An Irrelevant Sick Old Man, Gets It, Declares Victory. Daily Kos, 28 August 2019. despite the rantings of climate denialistsBreaking News: Dr Tim Ball Defeats Michael Mann’s Climate Lawsuit! principia-scientific.org, 23 August 2019. that claim this is a victory for Ball's pseudoscience.
==See also==
*Appears in The Great Global Warming Swindle
*Friends of Science
==External links==
*Ball's site
*"Friends" of "Science"
*Deltoid, Deep Climate, and DeSmog Blog have categories for his bullshit. (Yeah, he's that bad.)
*Trust Us, We're the Media, Mitchell Anderson
*Play a game of TimBall. (No actual relation to Tim Ball.)
==References==
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