All Salby has done is to claim AGW is wrong by claiming his ideas are right. Most of the data he uses is not attributed nor stands the scrutiny AGW does. That'll be why he won't publish.
So what exactly is the problem?
Are you trying to suggest if co2 lags a temperature rise, co2 can't have anything to do with a temperature rise. Really??
So presumably you must think because hens lag eggs, hens can't have anything to do with eggs either!
Well obviously you haven't , or rather won't even educate yourself in the basic science behind the greenhouse effect. Probably you get extremely confused about eggs too.
All the denier lag claim actually manages is to suggest the first bout of warming on Earth needn't have been affected by co2, but induced by a different natural cause. That doesn't stop every other warming event being caused and or amplified by co2, and more recently by excessive amounts of anthropic co2. Or in other words temperature increase by exactly how and why the greenhouse effect works.
But then that's the same approach creationists, birthers and general all round conspiracists use all the time. Front run ignorance into a topic to try and suggest what is really happening sound like it couldn't.