Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/14/2010 9:04:14 AM PST by opentalk
Recently I interviewed professor Tim Ball on my TV show. Ball is a highly qualified and experienced academic with an expertise in historical climatology who rejects most of the current hysteria around climate change and global warming.
He is a modest, gentle man who, in spite of his enormous work in the field and the chairing of inquiries and commissions into environmental causes, is now libelled, slandered, abused and threatened for his opinions.
“If people knew just how deep and dark this conspiracy is — yes, conspiracy — they’d be amazed,” he explains. “More and more academics are standing up to refute climate-change theories, but it’s still dangerous to do so. It can mean the end of a career, the targeting of someone by well-organized fanatics.”
I rather doubted this man who is arguably Canada’s leading scientific opponent of climate-change fundamentalism until the e-mails poured in after his television appearance. People wrote that he was in the pay of big oil, was a simple high-school geography teacher, was insane and worse. In fact, he is a university academic with impressive graduate degrees and doctorates and, unlike so many global warming advocates, is not in the pay of anybody.
Because he took some of his degrees under a university department of geography, an Internet mythology has developed around him and people who cannot spell let alone define scientific concepts try to silence him whenever he speaks.
“I’ve rather got used to it by now,” he says. “At first it was shocking that a climatologist with different ideas was treated like a Holocaust denier. Now I just move on and speak the truth.”
Such aggression has become typical of climate-change fanatics. When they lose arguments or are exposed as frauds, they attack their critics’ reputations or, in the case of the UN climate chief last week, shout that opponents should have their faces rubbed in carcinogenic material. It’s a grander, better financed version of pushing someone off a stage and is as crass and nasty as any anti-Communist witch-hunt.
Usually I wouldn’t reveal this sort of information, but in this case it’s necessary. We flew professor Ball to Toronto from Victoria for our interview because he could not afford the flight. The money for the economy fare was donated by two friends of our program with no connections to the climate-change debate and there was no fee for professor Ball. In other words, this man alleged to be in the pay of millionaires could not find anyone to subsidize even an entirely legitimate domestic flight for a major interview seen by 300,000 people!
“The believers are on increasingly thin ice — which is ironic because 400 years ago, the ice on London’s River Thames was three-feet thick!” he explains. “There has always been and always will be climate change, but it has very little to do with human activity and has nothing at all to do with pollution of course. We’re being lied to and the lies started 40 years ago.”
And professor Ball continues to speak out, no matter what the cost. More e-mails condemning him? Yes indeed. They’re being written right now.
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good read! Thanks for posting.
Communists/Democrats fear truth like a vampire fears the cross.
Let’s just hope Dr. Ball doesn’t start talking about Intelligent Design - then he’ll really be in the crosshairs!
You can see it on every open internet forum. Deny global warming in public and the personal attacks commence immediately.
Thanks for the post. I’ll consider him a mild-mannered hero amongst a den of vipers.
look this is a real fraud and real money makes folks like this go away.. i would fear for his life.
Yes, it is real fraud, however, there is a religious component to it too. The fraudsters want their money and power, the true believers want their worldview undisturbed. Both cases draw out anger and violence.
bring it.. We can deal with it ... it is called police.. and jail... i want these folks in jail and on trial.. and our money back..
As was discussed by FReepers yesterday
1)Fear - can be produced from many things, from barbarians to environmental threat.
2)Extortion - Turning the fear into a harvest of money and subservience.
3)An organization (like in Conspiracy! or a government run by the LEFT) behind it all.
Johnny Suntrade
This shows how much liberals in science don’t look at Science as Science they look at it as a way to manipulate and control people. Just like with many other areas whether it be social sciences,environmental sciences, sexual/reproductive sciences, or even evolutionary science. Liberalism and it narrow political goals are always on display. They want to remake the world and society in a ways that the people would never accept on their own accord and the way they do this is by teaching people that they are no better than animals and can not possibly behave any better than bonobo monkeys or such and that because of this human beings need masters in the form of ever growing government regulation and control over their lives. The goal of course is for the belief in God and individual responsibility to be replaced with reliance and dependence on centralized planning. The whole idea people becoming adult independent thinking beings who can form natural relationships such as between a man and woman which do not need governmental or societal leaps to satisfy conditions of reproduction, who have and take care and educate their children in ways to help facilitate the survival of those children, who can survive as a familial unit with out great intervention or input from outside governmental sources is an anathema to them and their goals. So much of what they hail as an advancement advances one thing and that is dependency even in areas where human beings nor any creature should need any help.
I read his articles at Canada Free Press...he really knows his stuff...
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