. >> up next, james delingpole talks about the battle of climate change with peter slen and liberal versusservative politics. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. booktv is interviewing james delingpole. he is the author of several books. what happened was environmentalism, they are so into saving the planet, and they want to advance this. >> what were some of the causes? >> it is the same as it always has been. control and regulation and higher taxes. he has a self smiling type of cadence. >> what is your opinion of climate change? >> the science seems increasingly to be witnessed in this way. we have an unfailingly great way of coming up with this solution. >> you consider yourself a conservative and libertarian? >> i think i used to consider myself a conservative. i never went through that stage about 17 or 18 years old because the world is so unfair and it seems to me that the conservatives include the facts of life, they are conservative. i have undergone a progression not unlike the one undergone by william frederick street he turned in his career from the natural progression to mo

>>> up next move, book tv will peter slen interviews authors in london, this week claire tomalin followed by the literary editor of the observer common rubber to one defeat does -- robert. >> book tv has traveled to london to interview british authors and we are pleased to have with us this week award winning british author claire tomalin. she has written several books, several biographies. claire tomalin, your most recent book was on the charles dickens. why another which charles dickens book? >> guest: that is a good question. there are a lot of books and back to the biography written by his best friend, john foster, who was appointed by the dickens. they really loved each other and when dickens died, they said there is no more happiness for me now but i have a duty to write the biography. and he wrote a great free volume biography which i brought years ago that would fall into the bits on which everything has been written. i've written two books about him. one was "the invisible woman," which was about his relationship with the nellt ternan the actress. as the years went by i gave my f

. >>> up next move, book tv will peter slen interviews authors in london, this week claire tomalin followed by the literary editor of the observer common rubber to one defeat does -- robert.