"I was accused by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki of being paid by oil companies. That is a lie. Apparently he thinks if the fossil fuel companies pay you have an agenda. So if Greenpeace, Sierra Club or governments pay there is no agenda and only truth and enlightenment?"In the article, Dr. Ball also points to Dr. Richard Lindzen, atmospheric physicist and a professor of meteorology at MIT, as another scientific authority who often speaks out against the myth of man-made global warming.
Dr. Ball is the Chairman of a Canadian based Natural Resources Stewardship Project., which is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that is trying to provide a more reasonable voice to counter ideologically-driven environmentalist groups.
Update: I heard another good global warming discussion between Dennis Prager and Bjorn Lomborg, who is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School and the director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute. A couple of key points. Al Gore's film wildly exaggerates. For instance, they report sea level rises of 20 feet, while the latest UN report has revised their numbers down from ~2 feet to ~1-1.5 feet. Tubby's film also likes to give one sided statistics. For example, it says that there will be 2,000 more heat related deaths each year due to global warming. It neglects to mention that 20,000 less people will die each year due to cold as a result of global warming. There was also some talk about how little real effect on total carbon dioxide levels would actually occur if all of the cars, trucks, boats and airplanes in the US were to be taken out of use. Dennis' blog links to an LA times article that reports on this from the point of view that the carbon-dioxide levels are so high that there is no way we could bring them down to a globally acceptable level, even if we cut out ALL of our emissions. Some people may buy into this idea, but what it tells me is that the idea that we are causing the global warming is ridiculous. Maybe if we try really hard we can stop the earth from spinning and get it going the other way around.
