dr. patrick moore. [applause] >> thank you. good morning everyone. thank you for inviting me here to give my opinion on the subject of climate change. this was my home for my first 14 years, a small logging camp on the northwest tip of an hoover island on the rainforest by the pacific. i did not know how lucky i was. i was sent off to vancouver for theding school and then to university of british columbia to study life sciences. in 1960, before the world was known to the general public, i discover the science of ecology, how all things are interrelated and how people are related to them. heightmid-1960's, at the of the vietnam war, the height of the cold war, and the threat of all-out nuclear war and the growing concern for the environment, i was transformed into a radical environmental activist. [laughter] i can't seem to get it to go that way anymore. a churchyself in basement with a like-minded group planning a protest voyage against u.s. hydrogen bomb testing in alaska. we proved that is somewhat ragtag group could sail an old halibut boat across