Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball
We will see an increasing
number of people changing their positions on global warming as the global
warming ship sinks... dredging up a sentence or two from their writings that
they claim showed they knew. The level of inventiveness will astonish as rats
desert the sinking ship.
I am not well disposed to
any of these people ... there are none so blind as those who will not see. I
admit I hold some animosity to this group as I... have suffered the lawsuits,
personal attacks, death threats and career limiting denial of funding, loss of
speaking opportunities, and having my wife cry.
I am glad Mr. McCarter finally saw the light
as expressed in his article “Naïve scientists awakens to the politics underlying climate change”, but
it is too late, too easy and self-serving... I know first-hand what Voltaire
meant when he said
“It is dangerous to be right in
matters where established men are wrong.”
Why didn’t McCarter act
when the emails were leaked from the Climatic Research Unit...the apparent
answer is that there are no consequences and he will be praised for his
enlightenment and forgiven for his failures. Sorry, it is far too late,
inadequate, and unworthy of praise...
He watched as others suffered attacks,
lawsuits, and bullying and did nothing. As Edmund Burke said, “All that
is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” I
think that the fact they did nothing eliminates them from being called good
men. McCarter apologizes for Naomi Klein ...but where was he
when she
was appointed to Pope Francis’ committee on global warming ...now
he wants absolution and even praises after a perfunctory mea culpa.
It is easy now as the
tide is turning because Trump had the courage to cancel the Paris Climate
Agreement...I can’t tell you how many people felt they were supporting me… but when the opportunity
to speak arose at least 95 percent of them were nowhere to be seen. and now he
wants absolution for that failure.
No, I cannot accept
McCarter’s pathetic apology ...his grandson was made to stand in the hallway
outside his Grade six class every day for most of a month because he dared to
ask questions about global warming that challenged what his teacher was saying
and she knew I was his grandfather.
The only thing I can do
here is quote Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller.
First, they came
for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a
Socialist.
Then they came for
the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a
Trade Unionist.
Then they came for
the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a
Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was
no one left to speak for me.
It was a child who pointed out that the
emperor had no clothes because the adults were afraid to say anything.
McCarter’s. . . ‘coming out’ is too little too late...
UPDATE
UPDATE
A reply to Dr. Tim Ball Anthony Watts / 5 hours ago
by Robert McCarter
Hi Tim,
I know that you have been the brunt of much of the blowback from your position on CAGW and I know that you are frustrated, especially from the lack of support of others. I even understand that you are using my once good name as an Everyman, that obsequious clod, ducking his responsibilities and making only a pathetic attempt to hide his neighbor from the Nazis knocking on the door. Perhaps it was my apologies that you found unctuous, for me they were a thin joke on being Canadian...I am not a meteorologist or a climate scientist... Where I work and live there is not a large scientific community and those that are there seem to be accepting of arguments from authority.
