Tim Ball's Personal Climate Campaign Continues
The "Friends of Science" climate campaigner Dr. Tim Ball embarrasses himself today in the National Post with an article praising the prospect of global warming. Ball has been on a privately funded, cross-country tour arguing that climate change is either not occurring or occurring regardless of the activities of humankind. Now, apparently because he used to live in a town with a chilly winter (Winnipeg), he acknowledges that warming is happening and suggests its a good thing.
Ball talks about warmer summers, without mentioning longer droughts. He talks about longer growing season without mentioning the increasing frequency of devastating floods. (It's one of the unpleasant perversities of climate change that you increase the risks of getting both floods AND droughts, often in the same year.) Dr. Ball talks about "reduced fuel bills for travel" without mentioning that dangerous weather events might be making the old Caribbean holiday destinations too dangerous to visit.
It is clear, once again, that Ball doesn't really care what he has to say. He doesn't care whether it's true (see his quotes on CO2 corelations with temperature in this post). He doesn't care if it's sensible. He doesn't appear to care that climate change poses serious threats to billions of people, as long as his friends in Winnipeg can sow more plant varieties in their gardens.
All he appears to care about is undermining any social or political support for action on climate change. It makes us wonder, once again: Who's paying your bills, doc?
Al Gore is a guy who was
Al Gore is a guy who was cheated out of the world's most prestigeous job. If you can't be president of the USA what could possibly compare? How about 'Man Who Saved the World!!'
Please, just keep an open mind and consider the source and do your own research. Global Warming, I mean, Climate Change....I mean, The Climate Crisis or whatever they are calling it this week, COULD be based on science.
How often has science lead us in the wrong direction? And at what cost? Last year alone the US spent 9 Billion on trying to stop the weather. How much did they spend on cancer research? Or reducing smog? Or rebuidling New Orleans???
Peace.