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Subject: Thanks, Bev. Good job outing that charlatan.

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Mo' Green
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Date Posted: 09:46:29 03/13/07 Tue
In reply to: Bev 's message, "Information on your expert . LOLOL" on 19:34:02 03/12/07 Mon

So evident to everyone but a brain dead ideologue. BTW, looks like my reply to Oro re: his lack of sourcing ended up as response to you. Sorry.

>astroturf scientist funded by big oil - you'll be
>seeing him a lot
>quoted by Hannity.
>It's too bad he's getting threats, those that do should
>be prosecuted, and it just inflates his self
>importance.
>---------
> >href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-finding-new-wa
>ys-to-...">http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-finding-n
>ew-ways-to-...
>
>In a September 26, 2006 letter to the Royal Society,
>Dr. Tim Ball, the leading signatory, identifies
>himself as "Professor of Climatology, University of
>Winnipeg."
>Not quite. From 1988 until his retirement in 1996, Dr.
>Ball was a Professor of Geography at that university.
>He has not, since, had any official position at U of W
>or at any university. So, he is not now a Professor of
>Climatology at the University of Winnipeg and,
>arguably, never was.
>
>It raises the question: if he is this cavalier about
>the factual accuracy of his own record of employment
>and credentials, how could he expect us to believe any
>of the rest of what he says?
>
>------
> >href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/10/113157/6
>2">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/10/113157/62 >a>
>In 1996, Dr. Ball left his job at the University of
>Winnipeg for the more lucrative pursuit of scientific
>gun-for-hire ("environmental consultant"). According
>to the Center for Media and Democracy SourceWatch, he
>found a home at the American National Center for
>Public Policy Research, a conservative front group
>supporting whatever initiatives their financial
>backers want them to endorse. Since 1997, one of their
>principal mandates has been to fight the environment
>movement in general and in particular, shoot down any
>regulation to decrease the emission of greenhouse
>gasses.
>
>
>"CFCs were never a problem... it's only because the
>sun is changing" and, "What's wrong with global
>warming ? There are lots of positive benefits to
>global warming."
>It seems as though Tim Ball traded his professional
>pride and ethics for easy money and an invitation to
>play with the big boys.

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Which charlatan Oro or ball. Bev 11:10:31 03/13/07 Tue

One is just a dufus -- Mo' Green, 13:48:09 03/13/07 Tue

Subject	Author	Date
Which charlatan Oro or ball.	Bev	11:10:31 03/13/07 Tue
One is just a dufus -- Mo' Green, 13:48:09 03/13/07 Tue