Talk:Robert Balling

Funding Claims
Its kinda weird and funny how this works:

1. the reference in the funding section that states he earned $400,000, points to salon.com

2. salon.com points to sourcewatch.org

3. sourcewatch.org has a link, but it doesn't work!

so where is the reference information? I'm removing the link until an appropriate source for the claim can be found.

The machine512 14:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Also I don't think referencing another wiki is approprate for citations. Is the Center for Media and Democracy a reliable source at all? Why not just self reference wikipedia in that case? The machine512 15:02, 5 December 2006 (UTC)


 * next time, check out archive.org before deleting dead links. Rd232 talk 11:06, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Is he really a climatologist?
The article doesn't mention anything about him having an actual background in the subject. And simply being put in charge of a climatology office doesn't prove he has expertise or education in climatology, any more than say Michael Brown was an expert on emergency management because he got appointed to run FEMA. Redxiv 03:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You can decide this for yourself by looking at his CV, which can be accessed from his home page cited in the article (or go directly to it at http://geoplan.asu.edu/files/balling_2010.pdf).  Given that he has 6 books and over 150 journal articles, most in climate-related journals, it would be impractical to list them all in the Wikipedia article.  And that's just in the first 16 pages of a 71-page CV.  Whether you agree or disagree with him, he has a stronger publication record in climatology than any Wikipedia editor I'm aware of who's currently editing under their real name.  --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 04:18, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

I would add that this whole Wikipedia article is practically defamatory, and the authors should be ashamed of themselves. The man has a long history of publications but NOTHING like that is mentioned here. Just the implied ad hominem attack of referring to funding received by some organisations that greenies see as 'evil'. This article brings into disrepute the whole of the Wikipedia organisation - it proves, as long as this thinly-veiled criticism remains on this page, that the people in charge of Wikipedia have an agenda, and it is NOT one that seeks to dispassionately and even-handedly deliver INFORMATION.

SHAME ON YOU REDVIX! SHAME ON WIKIPEDIA!! I know why he's being cast in this light, he DARED to criticize the IPCC reporting system. Even though his comments were verifiable and quite reasonable, he has been demonised by the hysterical (but well-organised) Global Warming Alarmist clique.

I repeat. This is NOT an informative article. It is meant to demonise a respected scientist and does NOTHING to inform. It just lowers the stature and credibility of Wikipedia as a reliable source of even-handed information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.157.135 (talk) 09:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Blog used for criticism
In para. "5.1 Reaction to Balling's views on global warming", the article has criticism from Think Progress, a "a liberal American political blog." Think Progress is stridently partisan, and the cited post is directly critical of Dr. Balling, eg "Dr. Balling is distorting the scientific data." Blogs are out of bounds for a BLP; I'll be removing this unless someone can provide a BLP-grade RS for the criticism. --Pete Tillman (talk) 00:26, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

BLP noticeboard
Section = 109 BLP articles labelled "Climate Change Deniers" all at once. This article was placed in a "climate change deniers" category. After discussion on [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive232#109_BLP_articles_labelled_.22Climate_Change_Deniers.22_all_at_once WP:BLPN] and [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_October_16#Category:Climate_Change_deniers WP:CFD] the category was deleted. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 16:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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