Timothy F. Ball

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Timothy Francis Ball is a global warming skeptic. He heads the Natural Resources Stewardship Project and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Friends of Science, an organization skeptical of human-caused global warming.^[1]

Contents 1 Academic background 2 Public appearances 3 Selected publications 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Academic background

Ball has a B.A. degree from the University of Winnipeg, an M.A. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1970 in Geography^[2], and a Ph.D. degree in geography^[3] from the University of London, England in 1983, writing a thesis analyzing historical weather records from Canada's north.^[4] Ball taught geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996, starting as a Sessional Lecturer and retiring as a Professor.^[5]

[edit] Public appearances

Ball was featured in The Great Global Warming Swindle, a documentary film produced by Martin Durkin that was first aired in March 2007. The film showcased scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who disagree with the scientific consensus on global warming. In the film, Ball was misattributed as a professor in the Department of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg (the University of Winnipeg has never had a Department of Climatology and Ball retired more than ten years before the show aired).^[6] Ball has receive e-mailed death threats due to his appearance in the film.^[7]

[edit] Selected publications

• Houston, C. Stuart; Ball, T. F.; Houston, Mary (2003), Eighteenth-century naturalists of Hudson Bay, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 333, ISBN 0773522859 
• Ball, Timothy F. (1995), "Historical and instrumental evidence of climate: Western Hudson Bay, Canada, 1714–1850", in Bradley, Raymond S.; Jones, Philip D., Climate Since A.D. 1500, Routledge, ISBN 0415075939 
• Ball, Timothy F.; Kingsley, Roger A. (1984), "Instrumental temperature records at two sites in Central Canada: 1768 to 1910", Climatic Change 6 (1): 39–56, doi:10.1007/BF00141667, http://www.springerlink.com/content/l51087083622ll24/ 
• Ball, Timothy F. (1983), Climatic change in central Canada: a preliminary analysis of weather information from the Hudson's Bay Company Forts at York Factory and Churchill Factory, 1714-1850, Queen Mary, University of London: Ph.D. Thesis, http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/search/?searchtype=a&searcharg=Ball%2C+Timothy&searchscope=16&SORT=A&Submit.x=48&Submit.y=27 
• Ball, Timothy F. (1983), "The migration of geese as an indicator of climate change in the southern Hudson Bay region between 1715 and 1851", Climatic Change 5 (3): 85–93, doi:10.1007/BF00144682, http://www.springerlink.com/content/l1412752642704v3/ 
• Catchpole, A.J.W.; Ball, Timothy F. (1981), "Analysis of historical evidence of climate change in western and northern Canada", Syllogeus (National Museum of Canada) (33): 48–96, http://cgrg.geog.uvic.ca/abstracts/CatchpoleAnalysisThis1981.html 

[edit] References

1. ^ Peter Gorrie (January 28, 2007). "Who's still cool on global warming?". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/175673. Retrieved 2007-03-31. 
2. ^ Ball, Timothy. "The significance of grain-size and heavy minerals volume percentage as indicators of environmental character, Grand Beach Manitoba : a case study". http://bison.umanitoba.ca/web2/tramp2.exe/see_record/A0abko4e.001?server=1home&item=2&item_source=1home. Retrieved 2007-12-31. 
3. ^ http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/search~S16?/aBall,+Timothy+Francis./aball+timothy+francis/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=aball+timothy+francis&1%2C1%2C
4. ^ Ph.D. thesis titled "Climatic change in central Canada : a preliminary analysis of weather information from the Hudson's Bay Company Forts at York Factory and Churchill Factory, 1714-1850"
5. ^ Ball, Timothy. "Biography". http://www.cariboord.bc.ca/crddirectors/2007%20agendas/Dec2007/December%2014,%202007/Biography.pdf. Retrieved 2009-10-24. 
6. ^ Monbiot, George (21 July 2008). "Why does Channel 4 seem to be waging a war against the greens?". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/21/climatechange.carbonemissions1. Retrieved 21 December 2009. 
7. ^ Harper, Tom (2007-03-11). "Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'". Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1545134/Scientists-threatened-for-climate-denial.html. Retrieved 2009-12-21. 

[edit] External links

• NSRP A professional biography
• Archive of recent articles on Canada Free Press
• Tim Ball SourceWatch article
• February 10, 2007 Interview of Ball in the Pittsburgh Tribune: The politics of global warming
• February 5, 2007 Ball's opinion piece Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? at canadafreepress.com
• January 25, 2007 Trust us, we're the media, Georgia Straight
• August 6, 2006 article from The Globe and Mail "Focus" section: Mr. Cool
• June 15, 2006 National Post article for the Financial Post: Warmer is Better: Junk Science Week
• October 3, 2007 AllPoliticsNow news report Winnipeg bred global warming denier Tim Ball avoids embarrassment at Peoples Court w/ links to court documents.