to discuss the political climate of global warming i'm joined by lord christopher monckton in london he's a 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 lord 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 in any statistically signifi

this we're not going to we're not going to the rest of the world will be in a tough place ok lord christopher i do think that the us is on the right track in dealing with climate change obama as well know what it is i think it's very unlikely from from my information from inside the senate that they're going to get this bill through it's now very widely realized that what has happened is a stitch up between the obama administration and the utility companies so that they will be allowed under this new bill to add two hundred fifty billion dollars over the next twenty years to the price of electricity and gasoline without having to pass that on to the u.s. government that's the bribe that's being offered to them it's a very large one to get them to knuckle under and agreed to this entirely pointless legislation of course china has declared over and over again in her annual statistical communiques and if a dictatorship says these things it tends to mean it that it is not going to cut its emissions it's going to build another two coal fired power stations every week from here indefinitely until e

price on carbon and incentivize clean energy well it won't happen ok you want to explain why lord christopher want one he has it won't happen simply because there are not enough votes in the senate to push this through obama is going to do its best to shove it through now because he knows that the midterm elections are coming and that the tea party movement which thinks global warming is nonsense is putting its kind of into the republican party and that it's going to lose the house and possibly certainly he lose the chance to get sixty votes in the senate on any measure in the future so he's of course going to try to shove it through quickly not under the wire as it were but he's not going to succeed nor does he deserve to succeed for all the pious rhetoric about well the economy is in the rules and clean energy and all these things every time somebody talks about creating green jobs they ought to refer to the study that's been done in spades where every so-called green job should be created by the fia to have a boss the government has now destroyed two point two jobs in the private sector so

man who wrote for the flies -- broke "lord of the fault -- wrote "war of the flies -- "lord of the flies." christopherenson reviewed the best of the best. is the decision on what book to put in here yours? >> is. >> do you ticket review the will have a conservative point of view? >> no, not at all. i would say that we have a conservative temperament at the magazine. we do not consider ourselves a -- i do not think we are particularly dogmatic. we are unpredictable in some ways. i gave the "history of the 1940's" a favorable review. the decision about which books to review and two to review them is entirely mine -- and who to review them is entirely mine. but my working hypothesis is that the readers of the magazine have had their fill of certain things by the time they get to my section. i like to change the subject a little bit. books on foreign policy, terrorism, iraq, things like that, they have a slightly higher threshold to cross to get into my section. i think of it as having an educational and entertaining function. from all the evidence, readers seem to like that. the kind of like the unexpect

." -- william goldin, the man who rode "lord of the flies." christopherenson reviewed the -- christopher hitchens reviewed that best of the best. i assume it was before he got sick. christopher benson reviewed the "best of the best -- becoming an elite at an american boarding school." is the decision on what book to put in here yours? >> is. -- it is. >> do you ticket review the will -- pick a reviewer that will have a conservative point of view? >> no, not at all. i would say that we have a conservative temperament at the magazine. we do not consider ourselves as standard errors of conservatism -- standard errors of conservatism. s oftandard bearer' conservatism. -- i do not think we are particularly dogmatic. we are unpredictable in some ways. i gave the "history of the 1940's" a favorable review. -- history of the united states in the 1940's" a very favorable review. the decision about which books to review and who to review them is entirely mine. our editor will occasionally suggests something which i am more than happy to accept. but my working hypot

lord. >> reporter: army veteran diane williamson was raped by her comm commicer in 1979. >> two months after arriving there, i was there, i was raped in my barracks room by a fellow navy sailor. >> reporter: tia christopherin 2000. she reported the sexual assault to her superiors. >> i was the third female sailor to report rape that week and my lieutenant commander looked at us and said, is this some kind of joke? are you playing a trick on me? are you all in cahoots together? >> reporter: williamson did not report her rape. >> i was terrified of putting it on paper and letting the military authorities know and then bring up all the mess. i really wanted to stay in the service. >> reporter: 2 1/2 decades later, she finally talked about the rape during a counseling session at swords to plowshares, the group that helps veterans. >> before that, i was homeless, wasn't able to hold a job. in the midst of a depression that i hadn't really understood. >> reporter: for christopher, reporting the rape was career suicide. >> i fought it and fought it and fought it. unfortunately, this ended with me receiving an early discharge with a personality disorder. >> reporter: the national institute of justice says one in