Durkin Speaks, Gore Hides

Via K-Dawg, Martin Durkin responds to the not at all surprising attacks of his documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle":

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.

Indeed. Having watched "No Inconvenient Context" twice now, I must say there is heavy emphasis put on the ice core data. Perhaps it is because this data is actually damaging to the global warming cause that Al Gore is showing so much disdain for Senate rules:

* Gore first demanded to be granted an unprecedented 30 minute opening statement

* Gore demanded a waiver of the EPW committee’s 48 hour rule that requires all witnesses before EPW to submit their testimony in advance. The GOP minority on the EPW committee then agreed to waive the 48 hour rule in favor of allowing Gore to submit his testimony 24 hours before the hearing.

* The former Vice President has violated the new 24 hour deadline extension by failing to submit his testimony

* The word on Capitol Hill says not to expect Gore’s testimony to the Senate EPW committee until Wednesday (March 21) -- the day of the hearing.

If global warming is real (and it is, everybody says so) why is Gore so unwilling to have his testimony scrutinized?