Tim Ball
| Timothy Ball | |
|---|---|
| Born | Timothy Francis Ball November 5, 1938 England |
| Residence | Victoria, British Columbia |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Fields | Geography |
| Institutions | University of Winnipeg |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba, Queen Mary University of London |
| Thesis | Climatic change in central Canada : a preliminary analysis of weather information from the Hudson's Bay Company Forts at York Factory and Churchill Factory, 1714-1850. (1983) |
| Notable awards | Clarence Atchison Award for Excellence in Community Service |
| Spouse | Marty Ball |
Timothy Francis "Tim" Ball (born November 5, 1938) is a Canadian geographer who taught in the Department of Geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1971 until his retirement in 1996. Ball rejects the scientific opinion on climate change, stating that "CO2 is not a greenhouse gas." He has worked with the groups Friends of Science and Natural Resources Stewardship Project, which promote similar positions, and is a research fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Ball received a bachelor's degree with honors from the University of Manitoba in 1970, followed by an M.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1971 and a PhD from Queen Mary University of London in England in 1983. Ball became an instructor at the University of Winnipeg in 1971, and a lecturer the following year. He then served in the latter capacity for 10 years. In 1982 he became an assistant professor there, and was promoted to associate professor in 1984 and full professor in 1988.
Ball founded the Rupert's Land Research Centre, a historical society dedicated to promoting the history of the area formerly known as Rupert's Land, in 1984. He also served as its director from then until 1996. The society placed a particular emphasis on the use of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives. Ball has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in the field of historical climatology, most of which pertain to reconstructing temperatures in Canada during the past several centuries. In 2003, Ball co-authored a book entitled "Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay," which was reviewed in the American Indian Quarterly by Theodore Binnema of the University of Northern British Columbia in 2005, as well as by Fred Cooke in the Auk in 2004.
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