Dr. Tim Ball

• Official website: "Dr. Tim Ball - A Different Perspective" [Website discontinued. Dr Ball sadly passed away in 2022.]

Items mentioned in / relevant to the interview (part one)

• TMR 133 : Dr. Tim Ball : Educational Ergonomics

• Andrew W. Monford, The Hockey Stick Illusion, Stacey International; 1 edition (March 2010)

• SLAPP (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation)

• "The Deplorable Climate Science Blog" by Steven Goddard (https://realclimatescience.com/)

• Nafeez Ahmed, "How the Trump regime was manufactured by a war inside the Deep State : A systemic crisis in the global Deep System has driven the violent radicalization of a Deep State faction", Insurge Intelligence (10 February 2017)

• JoNova (https://joannenova.com.au/)

• Juliet Eilperin, "Anatomy of a Washington dinner : Who funds the Competitive Enterprise Institute?", Washington Post (20 June 2013)

• Steven Mufson, "Exxon Mobil Warming Up To Global Climate Issue", Washington Post (10 February 2001)

• Michael Crichton's "Remarks to the Commonwealth Club", San Francisco (September 15, 2003) (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kw/crichton.html)

• Competitive Enterprise Institute (https://cei.org/)

Items mentioned in / relevant to the interview (part two)

• Damian Carrington, "2016 hottest year ever recorded – and scientists say human activity to blame : Final data confirms record-breaking temperatures for third year in a row : Earth has not been this warm for 115,000 years", The Guardian (18 January 2017)

• Damian Carrington, "2015 smashes record for hottest year, final figures confirm : Experts warn that global warming is tipping climate into ‘uncharted territory’, as Met Office, Nasa and Noaa data all confirm record global temperatures for second year running", The Guardian (20 January 2016)

• Mark Kinver, "2014 warmest year on record, say US researchers", BBC (16 January 2015)

• Edited transcript of the 2007 PBS "Frontline" interview with former Senator Timothy Wirth, (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/interviews/wirth.html)

• The Hatch Act of 1939 (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939)

• Gus Lubin, "49 Former NASA Scientists Send A Letter Disputing Climate Change", Business Insider (11 April 2012)

• Dana Nuccitelli, "Attacks on climate science by former NASA staff shouldn't be taken seriously", The Guardian (12 April 2012)

• Harrison Schmitt (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Schmitt)

• GISS (NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies) Surface Temperature Analysis FAQ page (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/)

• Anthony Watts, "@NOAA data demonstrates that 2016 was not the ‘hottest year ever’ in the USA", WattsUpWithThat.com (19 January 2017)

  • Comment by "bw" (accessed 11 March 2017): "Other people are watching changes in GISS data. Every month, approximately 10 percent of the entire GISS historical station record are changed. This has been going on since 2008 at least. That is, out of a random sample of 40 stations, about 3 or 4 stations will show a complete revision of historical data, with various amounts over various years. Not all data is changed, and not by large amounts. Some missing data is backfilled, and some old data are deleted. The next month will have a different 3 or 4 stations with data that are altered from the previous month. Around December of 2012 there was a much larger revision, with many stations showing many more than the usual adjustments, with some recent year data being lost entirely. About 3 months later, some of the lost data was restored, and some other changes were reversed. Generally, the older data is cooled by some random amount, between 0.1 to 1 degree. The remaining stations show no changes in any old data, just the added monthly update. The GISS station monthly data were taken from the GISS page, saved in the original space separated text format. List of stations in the sample. Akureyri, Amundsent-Scott, Bartow, Beaver City, Byrd, Concordia, Crete, Davis, Ellsworth, Franklin, Geneva, Gothenburg, Halley, Hanford, Hilo, Honolulu, Jan Mayen, Kodiak, Kwajalein, La Serena, Lakin, Loup City, Lebanon MO, Marysville, Mina, Minden, Mukteshwar, Nantes, Nome, Norfolk Island, Nuuk, Red Cloud, St. Helena, St. Cloud, Steffenville, Talkeetna, Thiruvanantha, Truk, Vostok, Wakeeny, Yakutat, Yamba. Most station data were saved in June 2012. Only the 4 Antarctic stations are saved from 2008."

• Friends of Science (https://friendsofscience.org/)

• Australian Sen. Malcolm Roberts maiden speech (Sep 13, 2016) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HA3TFkwsTg)

• Michael Slezak, "Debunking Malcolm Roberts: the case against a climate science denier", The Guardian (14 September 2016) [I include this note for the purpose of balance, but I wish to state that I very much object to the term "climate science denier". It's a cheap and nasty trick in my view. It reminds of the similar trick used against Intelligent Design theorists, who are often said to be waging a "war against science". Isn't it time to ditch the tricks and talk reason? Let's disagree, by all means, but I, for one, am getting fed up with these tactics. I hope you agree.]

• During the 2010 inquiries into Climategate, Phil Jones is questioned by members of the UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK0oGnqtVXo). [See particularly from 3:35, where Dr. Jones is asked about the transparency of his research.]

• John Bates, "Climate scientists versus climate data", Climate Etc. (04 February 2017)

• Thomas R. Karl et al, "Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus", Science (26 June 2015)

• David Rose, "Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data", Mail on Sunday (04 February 2017)

• "More fake news in ‘The Mail on Sunday’ ", Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment, The London School of Economics & Political Science (05 February 2017)

• Seth Borenstein & Michael Biesecker, "Major global warming study again questioned, again defended", Associated Press (07 February 2017)

Acknowledgements

Podcast theme music, Chillout Me by Antony Raijekov from his Jazz U compilation (CC BY-NC 2.5).