Martin Durkin responds to his critics over his documentary the "Great Global Warming Swindle" in the Daily Telegraph, asking of his critics, “why are they so feeble?” I must admit that the SO2 explanation for the cooling period of 1940-75 (Durkin debunks here) recently given by the pro-GW side threw me off for a while. However, I remembered just the other day that the Soviet/ Eastern Bloc countries were huge polluters well into the 80's. I also remember reading in scientific journals in the late 1980's that acid rain (caused by SO2) was still a huge problem in the west.

Durkin writes:

"The remarkable thing is not that I was attacked. But that the attacks have been so feeble. The ice-core data was the jewel in the global-warming crown, cited again and again as evidence that carbon dioxide 'drives' the earth's climate. In fact, as its advocates have been forced to admit, the ice-core data says the opposite. Temperature change always precedes changes in CO2 by several hundred years. Temperature drives CO2, not the other way round. The global-warmers do not deny this. They cannot.

"During the post-war economic boom, while industrial emissions of CO2 went up, the temperature went down (hence the great global-cooling scare in the 1970s). Why? They say maybe the cooling was caused by SO2 (sulphur dioxide) produced by industry. But they say it mumbling under their breath, because they know it makes no sense. Thanks to China and the rest, SO2 levels are far, far higher now than they were back then. Why isn't it perishing cold?

"Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong."

'The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?'