Tim Ball is one of the handfull of shills who are regularly dusted off and paraded around by conservatives as a dissenting scientist. Keep an eye peeled for his shiny cranium the next time you see a “Global warming is a sham to steal all of your money through taxes” expose.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705040001

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Ball

He is also one of the founders of “Friends of Science”

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_Science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_F._Ball

Dispite his claims to the contrary in Glenn Beck’s Exposed: Climate of Fear – Ball regularly recieves oil industry funding.

BALL: “If I had gone along with the prevailing wisdom, the funding would have been enormous. Instead, I`m accused of getting the money from the oil company, which is simply a lie.”

Cry me a river – I don’t for a second believe you are soo persecuted as a skeptic “because the other 99% of the scientific community is just plain greedy and corruptible.” – WAH! The reason Ball is not IN the scientific community is he hasn’t published anything since 1996. That’s 12 years of sucking on the oily teat without any research contribution.

You may not receive it directly Ball – but founding the funding group “Friends of Science” to receive the funds and then giving them to yourself does not change the origin of the money.

I’ll leave you with this:
http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=158

Since GW has become a sort of “religion” of the west, I guess the crime would be heresy, but heresy was defined by St. thomas as “a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas”, We have never professed…

These same people don’t give a rat’s arse about the unborn, the elderly, or the disabled — Suzuki is a geneticist by trade, which means he has what credentials for pontificating on the environment? I thought so….

But that does not mean that Dr. Suzuki still isn’t a jerk.

Fortuately Conservatives do not have this problem: Everyone on that side of the political spectrum are perfect human beings, with no creeps, jerks or other assorted idiots.

I hate it when you have a depressive day in the midst of a manic one Steve. When you hit a low, you start this projectionism again and miss this fact. Either that or someone in your family pissed you off again.

The difference is, we debate within our side. Unles you missed the conservative reaction to Shamesty, prescrition drug expansion, the Bush-Kennedy “no child left behind” act, campaign finance “reform”, etc and so on.

The people quoted in the above topic, unfortunatly, are not alone in their call for imprisioning those of us who question them and their findings.

That does not mean thatGlobal Warming is not happening, nor that it will not cause havoc. Just that Dr Suuzki is a jerk.

It’s a shame we can’t edit out some of those who aree with us as it causes no end of embarrsment when we have to exend time either trying to defend some of their indefensible comments, or pretending they do not xist.

Fortuately Conservatives do not have this problem: Everyone on that side of the political spectrum are perfect human beings, with no creeps, jerks or other assorted idiots.

And they say that BUSH is a threat to Civil Liberties? Who is it that is forcing their way into my house telling me what kind of light bulbs to buy, what kind of washing machine I can own, what kind of toilet I can use?

And now, they want to toss us in jail if we fail to comply?