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Well all I can say is that my trusty old HH Lamb's "Climate, History
and the Modern World" published in 1982 long before "GW Band Wagons
Roll"; states quite clearly that gobal temperatures dropped markedly
from the late 40's to the late 80's. The Independant is obviously
very narked that their GW hot air balloon has been burst. They are
incapable of telling the truth.

I think you might have meant late 70s rather than late 80s, considering the
book was published in 1982, though the cooling stopped at the end of the
60s. The post-war cooling was not denied by the Independent. Explanations
vary but part of it may be attributed to a decline in solar activity.
However, there has been no increase in solar activity to account for the
recent rapid rise in global temperature.

I didn't think the graph and argument in the Indy regarding solar activity
was very clear and suggest the following paper might clear things up.
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu...onLaut2004.pdf

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Graham P Davis
Bracknell, Berks., UK
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