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Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball

Senator Barbara Boxer invites Canadian climatologist to sign Al Gore Thank You Card

By Judi McLeod

Friday, March 9, 2007

Even though she hails from sunny California, Senator Barbara Boxer reads Canada Free Press (CFP)!

And although she's never had the privilege of meeting Canadian climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball in the flesh, she indulges in the liberty of addressing the eminent scientist as "Tim".

Ms. Boxer, who extended her personal invitation to Ball to sign her "online thank you card to Al Gore" last night, heads up the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

In the politics of global warming, Ball, former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg, is the antithesis of Gore. Indeed, in a CFP column, "Global Warming" The Cold, Hard Facts?" Ball wrote, "Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth."

Gore has accepted Boxer's invitation to testify before her committee on March 21st and the senator, through her "Barbara Boxer for Senate" letterhead, wants you--including nonplussed Canadian Dr. Timothy Ball--to help her to give the former U.S. vice president "the warmest welcome possible"

"The online thank you card to Al Gore is paid for by Friends of Barbara Boxer. Contributions to Friends of Barbara Boxer are not tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes. FEC #C00279315."

Senator Boxer may be a bigger fan of Gore than Tipper.

"There may be no single person who has done more for our environment than Al Gore," Ms. Boxer gushed in her letter to Ball at CFP. "From his years of service in the Senate through his term as Vice President and especially recently, with his Oscar-winning movie "An Inconvenient Truth", Al Gore has been a steadfast, outspoken leader on environmental issues."

Like Gore Ms. Boxer is stressed about the end of our planet, courtesy of climate change.

"With the threat to our planet from global warming growing day by day, the time to act is now. My colleagues on the committee and I have already begun crafting legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase conservation and develop new alternative energy sources to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels--especially foreign oil."

While Boxer portrays herself as the Superwoman of Note to combat global warming, her start-off strategies have been tepid.

According to the Wall Street Journal Online, the presses should be stopped whenever the senator from California comes up with a good idea.

Ms. Boxer's first step in reducing greenhouse gases would be to require that federal buildings use more efficient light bulbs, and to ask federal bureaucrats to turn off their computers at night.

We don't know if Gore's turning off the lights in his Tennessee mansion were part of Boxer's orders.

We do know that Boxer's invitation to "Tim" arrived within hours of the Channel 4 broadcast of "The Great Global Warming Swindle", a documentary quoting scientists who explain that global warming caused by greenhouse gases is a sham.

"The Great Global Warming Swindle" is a polemical and thought-provoking documentary in which Film maker Martin Durkin argues that the theory of man-made global warming has become such a powerful political force that other explanations for climate change are not being presented.

CFP editors would have concluded that Boxer's letter to Ball was a mistake made by overzealous staff were it not for the senator's penchant of lighting into her enemies.

Back in January Boxer lit into Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with bitter diatribe during a heated line of questioning before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee looking into Iraq policies. At one point, Boxer turned to the broad question of who pays the ultimate price for war. Rice has never married and has no children.

"Who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family. So who pays the Price? The American military and their families."

Boxer is hoping to present Gore with a thank you card signed by tens of thousands of Americans when he comes to testify before her committee on the 21st.

"It'll take just a few seconds. Click here to sign our thank you card to Al Gore so I can personally deliver it to him when he comes to Washington on March 21st".

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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