issued a statement to controversy among the membership the issue statements rubberstamping what the un ipcc says. we should have a deeper look at the issue and so i convened the workshop. they sat and listened to three consensus scientists and all of them were authors in one way or another and three skeptical scientists there were presentations that were told and i came away with the sense there's a lot here we don't understand and some of it is very important to know. i was also surprised by how i had not heard about those shortfalls in the time that i had been studying the matter so about the substance of the science and also how it had been communicated. >> similar to mine years ago on a different subject, nuclear energy, which we will come back to. i spent a week at the accident when i first came to the united states as he documented immigrant. despite our trials and tribulations, i'm still proud to be year although it is challenging these days. but enough about canada. i was thrown into the debate around nuclear energy in 1979 and spent the week of the accident immersed in the commissi

the statement and i thought rather than like many professional societies, rubberstamping with the un ipcc says, as physicists we should have a deeper look at the issue so i convened a workshop, five physicists who were not climate experts that and listened to three consensus scientists, all of them ipcc authors in one way or another and three credentialed skeptical scientists. there were presentations and we talked for a day or so and i came away with the sense there is a lot here we don't understand and some of it very important to know that we didn't know. i was also surprised by how i had not heard about those shortfalls in the time i was studying the matter. it was a revelation about the substance of the science and how clearly it had been communicated to the public. >> your epiphany was similar to mine some years earlier on a different subject on nuclear energy which we will come back to. i spent the week of the accident at 3 mile island when i came to the united states, as a documented immigrant from canada and i am an american citizen, proud to be. despite our trials and tribulatio