"When we allow science to become political then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the Dark Ages, an era of stifling fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don’t know any better."

(Michael Crichton)

So prefaced, is the website of Dr. Tim Ball, retired professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg, who joins us for an in-depth interview on the history of the politicisation of Climate Science. From the genius of Maurice Strong and the machinations of the IPCC, to the famous Hockey Stick Graph and Climategate, Dr. Ball explains with precision and ease.

[Global Warming, Climate Change, AGW, CO2, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Rio, UNEP, Agenda 21, Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, The Population Bomb, Mediaeval Warm Period, Hockey Stick, dendrochronology, Maurice Strong, Wizard of Baca Grande, James Hansen, James Thore, Timothy Wirth, Michael Mann, Tom Wigley, Phil Jones, Jonathan Overpeck, Thomas Malthus, Paul Ehrlich, Al Gore, CRU, NASA GISS, Climategate, Hubert Lamb, Richard Lindzen, Andrew Montford, Elaine Dewar, Cloak of Green, The Hatch Act]

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