Saturn Posted December 14, 2006 Report Posted December 14, 2006 The righties keep using Tim Ball to back them. He was my professor years ago. He has been retired for a long time. He does no research anymore. He gets paid as a partisan flack by the oil industry. He is not some independent, actively working scientist in climatology.The right wing continues to use people with no current and respected credentials to back their positions. They instead point to blog journalists as having a bead on the truth. If they believe those guys, why not the September 11 conspiracy people? I don't know what Tim Ball was like back when he was your professor, but right now he is just a lunatic (I'm guessing that his age has something to do with it). What was your impression of him when he was still teaching? Quote
jdobbin Posted December 14, 2006 Report Posted December 14, 2006 I don't know what Tim Ball was like back when he was your professor, but right now he is just a lunatic (I'm guessing that his age has something to do with it). What was your impression of him when he was still teaching? I liked him. He was a gregarious and good teacher of geography. I can' recall him having a theory or even a body of work on warming or cooling though. Quote
Saturn Posted December 14, 2006 Report Posted December 14, 2006 I don't know what Tim Ball was like back when he was your professor, but right now he is just a lunatic (I'm guessing that his age has something to do with it). What was your impression of him when he was still teaching? I liked him. He was a gregarious and good teacher of geography. I can' recall him having a theory or even a body of work on warming or cooling though. I believe that he retired in 1986 and he hasn't done any research since. Also, he's never done climate research as far as I can tell - he was into geography. He is still gregarious and a good presenter/sweet talker. Quote
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