Tim Ball

A breathless news release announced Thursday that Dr. Tim Ball is now the chair of a new "environmental" group called the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.

The snazzy new NRSP website announces a broad array of principles and strategies, but their goal is simple:

NRSP’s first campaign is focused on dispelling the notion that Canada needs CO2 reduction plans.

Here we have yet another "grassroots" organization, emerging spontaneously to fight the demonic international conspiracy to recognize the global threat of climate change.

The Victoria Times-Colonist ran this letter Sunday:

Re: "A climatologist, not just a skeptic," Sept. 21.

Tim Ball takes issue with an earlier description of him as a climate change "skeptic," claiming instead that he is a "climatologist" fully conversant with "the absolute latest in modern science."

Yet the record shows that since his retirement as a University of Winnipeg geography professor in 1996, Ball has aligned himself with oil-industry front groups (Friends of Science, Envirotruth) and traded on a very light resume to sustain his busy calendar as a speaker and lobbyist against the Kyoto accord.

After his recent media pummeling, it seems that climate change skeptic Tim Ball isn't sticking his neck out too far into the public realm. The only upcoming presentations by Ball that we can find is one to the Victoria Chapter of the Conservative Party of Canada and one at the upcoming BC Oil and Gas Conference being held the first week of October in Dawson Creek.

I am sure Ball's slap-stick humour and fringe science will go over well with the two remaining demographics that, for the most part, refuse to pull their heads out of the sand.

Per this Globe and Mail story,Tim Ball has filed suit against the Calgary Herald and University of Lethbridge Professor Dan Johnson.
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