The Latest From Tim Ball
August 25, 2016
“Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.” — Erwin Knoll
August 08, 2016
Societies change due to what experts call paradigm shifts. American physicist Thomas Kuhn defined these shifts as “a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions.” These shifts occur regionally and across the globe. However, when they are global, the reaction and impact are markedly different, and often contradictory.
August 01, 2016
Current weather is normal; that is, it is well within the range of all previous weather and climate variations. There are no dramatic increases in temperature, precipitation, hurricanes, tornadoes, or any other severe weather. The climate is changing just as it always has and always will and the rate of change is perfectly normal. Of course, that is not what the government, environmentalists, or the media promote and as a result most of the public believe. The misconception is deliberate and central to the exploitation of global warming and climate change as the vehicle for a political agenda.
June 23, 2016
The United Nations is proof that the only thing that comes with bigger government is more corruption and less accountability. In fact:
June 01, 2016
An aphorism is “a pithy observation that contains a general truth.” This definition raises the question, which in itself may be an aphorism, as to whether you are allowed to have a general truth anymore?
May 19, 2016
Whether you like him or not, the rise of Donald Trump was predictable and speaks to the problem of Western societies that have gone from the tyranny of the majority to the tyranny of the minority.
May 09, 2016
The ozone issue was an early misuse of science for a political agenda. It was a practice run for global warming with several of the same people involved.
April 08, 2016
In his recent US speech, Prime Minister Trudeau said, "Let’s not live in fear of the world." He is talking about not fearing the influx of migrants. I for one don’t live in fear of the world. Rather, I live in fear of leaders who don’t understand the world and legislate based upon naive ideologies that ultimately fail miserably wherever they are tried.
March 31, 2016
A revealing comment about the corruption of climate science occurred before a Joint Congressional Inquiry. They were seeking to determine the claims by Canadians Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick about the scientific inaccuracy of Michael Mann’s “hockey stick.”
March 19, 2016
Before the advent of computers, meteorologists received data from regional weather stations and plotted a weather map.