"Is ‘Deliberate Deception’ An Unfair Description Of ‘Official’ IPCC Climate Science?"
DD is a pretty fair description of Ball's fiction.
More conspiracy theories from WUWT: It's a strong climate plot
Sou | 10:52 PM
WUWT is one of a multitude of conspiracy theory blogs on the internet. Anthony Watts, the blog owner, specialises in conspiracy theories of the climate kind. Today he's posted another article from one of his nuttier paranoid guests, whose name is Tim Ball (archived here). He's a frequent guest also on one of the even nuttier websites in Canada, which promotes "Freedom Water".
Tim is just writing about his normal (normal for him that is) theories that global warming is a plot hatched by a man called Maurice Strong. You can read an interview with Maurice Strong at the Guardian - by Leo Hickman, back in 2010.
Apparently Maurice Strong created global warming back in the 1980s. He must have had thousands of people in on the conspiracy, because he was able to alter scientific journals dating back to the beginning of the 19th century. That means he must have not only co-opted some of the world's leading scientific publishers and all their staff, he must have hauled in librarians all around the world to doctor old copies of scientific journals.
Imagine the work involved. Getting paper and ink of the right age. Changing the numbering systems going back through old editions. Getting someone to manufacture identities with names like Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius and Guy Stewart Callendar. Strong was even able to alter historical White House reports that were given to the US President, Lyndon B Johnston, back in 1965 and insert a report by some fictitious character called Roger Revelle.
Maurice Strong has extraordinary power. Not only was he able to subvert the 193 member nations of the United Nations, he single-handedly ran the World Meteorological Organisation. With the help of operatives posing as scientists and running another communist/fascist/socialist/Lysenkoist secret society - called The Royal Society, he managed to persuade the leading scientific societies throughout the world to say that global warming is real and caused by humans. (The jury is out as to whether or not the American Physical Society will continue to support the climate conspiracy.)
You want proof? Surely not. Isn't the word of Anthony Watts and his sidekick Tim Ball sufficient proof?
One curious thing is that Tim Ball hails from Canada. So does Maurice Strong. Strong was born in Manitoba, which housed the university at which Tim Ball taught geography. I don't know if their paths ever crossed. I imagine that Tim would cower in fear if he ever met this god of a man in person.
This time around Tim doesn't call on his heroes, Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden. At one point he wrote (just in case you were thinking I exaggerate):
A major challenge for those fighting the manipulations of the IPCC and politicians using climate change for political platforms is that the public cannot believe that scientists would be anything less than completely open and truthful. They cannot believe that scientists would even remain silent even when science is misused. The politicians exploit this trust in science and scientists, which places science in jeopardy. It also allowed the scientific malfeasance of climate science to be carried out in the open.A particularly egregious exploitation was carried out through science societies and professional scientific groups. They were given the climate science of the IPCC and urged to support it on behalf of their members. Certainly a few were part of the exploitation, but a majority, including most of the members simply assumed that the rigorous methods of research and publication in their science were used. Lord May of the UK Royal Society was influential in the manipulation of public perception through national scientific societies. They persuaded other national societies to become involved by making public statements.
Scientific societies are peopled by sheeple, obviously. They are not in a position to judge science for themselves. Not like the fake sceptics at WUWT, who just know that climate science is a hoax, a scam of gigantic proportions, all manufactured by a single individual, oil magnate Maurice Strong.
It is a really bad situation. Tim told how at one meeting of the IPCC:
The Russian Academy of Science, under its President Yuri Israel, refused to participate. At a United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) 2005 climate meeting he was put in his place.
“The Russian scientist was immediately and disrespectfully admonished by the chair and former IPCC chief Sir John Houghton for being far too optimistic. Such a moderate proposal was ridiculous since it was “incompatible with IPCC policy”.
Israel, a Vice-chair of the IPCC, knew what he was talking about from the scientific and political perspective.
Tim's impeccable source was the sports science graduate, Benny Peiser, who runs a lobby group for fake sceptics in the UK urging policies to make more global warming. It's called the Global Warming Policy Foundation. (I don't know how he plans to make the world warmer, as it can't be by burning fossil fuels, which every fake sceptic knows can't result in CO2, or if it does then it can't get into the air, or if it does then it can't act as a greenhouse gas, or if it does it can't make the world warmer.) I went to see what Benny reported the Russian scientist as saying. Here it is:
...he pointed out the potentially gigantic economic cost of any attempts to "stabilise" the world's climate: "Stabilization is not free for the world community. Economic analysis of stabilization scenarios using, in particular, 1000, 750, 650, 550 and 450 ppmv of CO2 as stabilization levels show that this may cost up to 18 trillions $US of 1992." Applying a cost-benefit analysis to the potential damage as a result of increasing temperatures evaluated against the cost of CO2 stabilisation, Professor Israel proposed moderate limits for CO2 concentration and surface temperature for the 21th century:
a) CO2 concentration should not exceed 550 - 700 ppmv;
b) A rise in surface temperature should be less than 2.5°C for the globe and less than 4°C for the Arctic;
c) Global mitigation costs should not exceed 10 - 20% of the increase in global GDP;
d) Sea level rise should be less than 1 m.
Well, that wasn't a very good denial of global warming was it. Tim ought to check his sources more carefully.
Tim also quotes Article 1 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which defined climate change, for the purpose of the Convention, as follows:
2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.It also defines a few other things, such as:
1. "Adverse effects of climate change" means changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climate change which have significant deleterious effects on the composition, resilience or productivity of natural and managed ecosystems or on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare.
Conspiracy theorists are generally not very clear thinkers. If they were they'd have realised that in order to distinguish between changes of climate attributable to human activity from that attributable to natural climate variability, one must be able to determine what is attributable to natural climate variability. Or perhaps Tim does understand this, but just cannot process the thought properly, because he did write:
Because of the political agenda people were allowed to believe the IPCC were studying climate change in total. The reality is you cannot determine human causes of change if you do not know or understand natural causes. The forcing diagrams used in early IPCC science Reports illustrate the narrowness (Figure 1) and its limitations.
Tim's first sentence suggests that he has never read any of the IPCC reports. If he had he'd not have been able to miss all the sections in all the chapters that were about climate - and climate change. Such as all the parts about the impact of solar radiation, the impact of volcanic eruptions, greenhouse gases etc etc. Tim put up a chart of the human influences on climate, but he chose not to put up any charts of other influences on climate, such as these ones:
He must have missed them.
Nor does Tim attempt to say what he thinks has been causing the earth to heat up so dramatically. He might have wanted to avoid the word "magic".
Tim isn't aware of the timetable for release of the IPCC reports. He wrote:
Most people, including most of the media don’t know that the science reports exist. This is because the Summary for Policymakers Report is released with great fanfare months ahead of the science report.
He's wrong. The science report is released within days of the Summary for Policy Makers. Here is the press release for WG1, and a quote:
GENEVA, 30 September – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has posted online the full Working Group I contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report in an unedited version, following the release of its Summary for Policymakers on 27 September 2013.
Anthony Watts specialises in disinformation at his anti-science blog, WUWT. This is just one more example not just of plain disinformation, but of paranoid conspiracy nuttery.
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