We have recently said goodbye to dozens of outstanding scientists who fought long and hard in support of real science to contest the global warming scare. Dr. Tim Ball, Dr. Jay Lehr, Dr. Bob Carter, Dr. Fred Singer, and Dr. Patrick Michaels were the heroes I knew best.
It may come as a shock to some readers to see Tim Ball, Ph.D. (Climatology, Queen Mary College, University of London, England), on that list. Most people thought he was virtually indestructible and would live to 100, fighting the good fight with good humor and solid science for many more years to come. “Ball” was certainly the right last name for Tim. After all, the harder you throw a ball against a wall, the harder it comes back. Dr. Ball obviously followed the Churchill idiom that,
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time—a tremendous whack.”
Dr. Ball certainly gave the climate scare a tremendous whack. He was straightforward and honest, never hiding from the truth and always getting right to the point. And unlike most scientists who make many of us feel dumb by speaking in jargon only fellow experts can understand, Tim had a way of communicating that made the exceptionally complicated field of climate change understandable by everyone. With patience, humility, and the gifts of a natural teacher, Tim built up his listeners’ understanding and self-confidence. This was not surprising. After all, as a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, he won many outstanding teaching awards. All this resulted in him attracting a far wider audience demographic and swaying public opinion far more than we could ever hope to reach with our technical conference presentations and scientific papers..........To Read More....
My Take - I never met Tim, but I did have an e-mail exchange with him many years ago, and he was one of my personal heroes. While he was a mild tempered and polite man, he had plenty of backbone and guts to spare. When Michael Mann sued him, he fought, and he won, and he used what in Canada is called the truth defense, AKA, the scorched earth defense. Here is my Tim Ball file, and my SLAPP file.
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