A letter from Timothy Ball has been posted on a free WordPress blog, and of course, with comments turned-off. I suspect that he took Exxon’s cash offer.
This letter just rehashes the same old baseless arguments we have been hearing from the denial movement for years. The fact remains that Tim Ball has been debunked many times, including in a report by CBC’s The Fifth Estate. Fact is that Dr. Ball is a retired geography professor not a climatoglogist. He has never done any research and has been working for a PR agency that is sponsored by the oil industry. Mr. Ball has not published any peer-reviewed papers on climate change or any other scientific subject.
This must be part of a last ditch effort by the Exxon-Mobil denial machine in the face of mounting evidence and the tide of public opinion. I fnd this campaign despicable and I cannot understand how these people can do this and still sleep at night.
***Update***
Just found another post on this abject character here. Apparently this letter is popping up all over the net.
The Hairy Beast published excerpts from the Ball letter on his blog as the second part of a two-part series :”The New And Improved Apocalypse”. It’s over two thousand words devoted to debunking so-called climate change.
It has been posted on freerepublic.com too.
Ta
THB
Ball’s new letter is just the same old, same old as last year:
http://www.orato.com/node/398?PHPSESSID=5945a68b292577aeb525c1010c26e893
with the exception that he changed his claims of greatness.
Thanks for posting this, things never change…