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Tim Ball himself "won" a suit with another climate scientist. "The judge noted that Ball's words "lack a sufficient air of credibility to make them believable and therefore potentially defamatory" and concluded that the “article is poorly written and does not advance credible arguments in favour of Dr. Ball’s theory about the corruption of climate science. Simply put, a reasonably thoughtful and informed person who reads the article is unlikely to place any stock in Dr. Ball’s views..." So... yeah.
YouTube video...maybe I'll watch it later, but I actually prefer info in written form.
And of note, I notice climate change deniers are all over the place. It isn't happening, it is happening, but it isn't that bad, it is happening, but man isn't the cause, etc. It reeks of a disinformation campaign. Instead of providing a single alternate story that can be disproven, you sow the seeds of lots of different stories. Anyone trying to find out the truth or to disprove all of them will give up. it is just intended to muddy the waters. To create the illusion that there is still debate. There isn't.
Its like the doctors who worked for big tobacco and even more similar to the COVID disinformation. Its a hoax, it isn't a hoax but its exaggerated, it isn't exaggerated, but it was always going to be this bad. Its noise. Its inconsistent. It relies on casting doubt.
In the end I'm not a climate scientist. I'm reasonably well educated and am actually pretty practiced in reading scientific publications. But in the end, I have to pick who I'm going to trust. Climate change is credible. If they are lying to me they are doing a really good job.
Now if you want to go down the rabbit hole:
https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php Pretty great page that debunks most of the denier myths.