writer and former policy advisor to british prime minister margaret thatcher in washington we have jason kowalski a policy coordinator at one sky campaign and also in washington we have young miller a senior policy associate at the environmental and energy study institute and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger large christopher monckton if i could go to you first. going from copenhagen last year to today or approximate what's going to be happening in the u.s. senate about climate change laws what progress is the world made and the progress of the discourse on climate change is a gotten better or worse more intense thinner how would you describe it. i think what's happening is that climate change is rapidly fading from the headlines in most western countries certainly simply because it's become blindingly obvious after the third very cold winter in a row that global warming simply isn't happening there hasn't really been any in any six against it in any statistically significant sense for the last fifteen years or so and what's more it's now becoming increasingly apparent that ther