mr. monckton we know that greenhouse gas influence climate.now that clouds influence climate and soil were variability can influence climate and there are natural cycles as referred to earlier as the el niÑo cycle and when you use these known aspects of climate to reconstruct climate over the last few decades you find there are not big missing pieces that the changes in climate we have observed can be explained. why was 1998 such an exceptionally warm year i will refer to jim hurrell probably the warmest amine yell we know for the last several hundred years. why was 1992 and 1993, 1994 unusually cool relative to the years before? immediately following the eruption of mount pinatubo the largest volcanic to have affected climate, the most recent volcano very much in the news probably won't have much effect on climate because the release of the material from that volcano was low in the atmosphere of course we know it interrupted air-traffic. when you put the pieces together you find there are not big gaps. there are periods you can't explain clam

mr. chairman and lord monckton i guess i think you have a right to explain why do you are lord and i don't believe you had an opportunity to. >> i will do that very weekly. i see politics of not particularly-- [inaudible] until those letters are revoked and they have not been, i remain and i correctly address that, i am therefore a lord by virtue of the 1999 house of lords. in fact i know have for-- no longer have the right to sit. i have never sat in the house of lords nor have i pretended otherwise and i think that really should deal with that matter. >> thank you. lord monckton, what do the climate scientist do to regain the public trust in our work? what can they do to ensure transparency and accountability in the climate scientist community, especially as we look toward the development of the upcoming ipcc's assessment report? >> let me first of all began begin with a quotation from noaa's response to my written testimony which essentially it was not given a copy of before the hearing and i think somebody has slipped up there. the passage that was quoted focused on one short sentence