Though documentaries
appear to present information in a straightforward, «styleless» way, the information is in
fact colored by camera angles, musical
backgrounds, editing, scripting, and so on.
Ball's bio that
appeared in the Calgary Herald and elsewhere contained false statements about his own
background, specifically a claim to be Canada's first climatology PhD and to have been a professor at University of Winnipeg for 28 years (in
fact it was 8 years).