 What an odd fellow is Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director for the lavishly-funded Grantham Institute on Climate Change at Colonel Gaddafi' s favourite British university, the LSE. Mr Ward seems to see it as one of his main roles to act as chief attack dog for the global warming industry, firing off incessant complaints, letters and articles savaging anyone who dares question its cherished dogmas.  On our letters page last week, he yet again took me to task for suggesting that autumn 2000 was not the wettest in south-west England since records began. But to make his point, he had to misquote what I said. What I referred to were the figures for maximum one-day rainfall. according to Met Office records, in November 1931 this was slightly higher, at 50.5mm, than the figure for October 2000, which was 49mm.  Mr Ward may be tireless in the ingenuity with which he tries to make his points, but it is uncanny how often he falls flat on his face. When he twice wasted untold hours of other people's time by hauling me (in vain) before the Press Complaints Commission, he triumphantly cited a chart which, he claimed, showed sea-levels around Tuvalu to have been rising. His chart in fact showed the very opposite, that sea levels in that part of the Pacific had been falling.  Mr Ward's most celebrated initiative, however, was the mammoth series of complaints he made to Ofcom, on behalf of "37 professors", against the Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle. Not one of his complaints about the film's contents did Ofcom uphold.