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the BSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor welcoming my friend and colleague Conrad Black,

distinguished biographer, Canadian, who helps me understand the Canadian observation

of a concern for many years now that's been attractive to fashion. It's called climate change.

Used to be called global warming.

Now it's just climate change.

Conrad, a very good evening to you.

Annego.

Over the last several hundred years,

astronomers have been tracking the sun and sunspots on the sun.

There is the anecdote that lots of sunspots and few sunspots affect the Earth's climate one way or another. Now it's

not proved it's an observation over several hundred years and the astronomers who have this observation and the

climatologists and the meteorologists say we need a few more hundred years of

records to be certain. I mentioned that because it's a worthwhile debate, but it's not evidence that

everything's got to change. It's not reason to give up major pieces of our industry because of global warming or climate change.

How is it for Canada?

Good evening to you. Good evening to you, John.

Well, basically exactly what you said except that the

the skeptics about climate change I mean the skeptics about the extreme

emphasis of it and the dire and draconian measures supposedly necessary to take to avoid a climate disaster in this country are not as frequently

contradicted as they are in the United States as in a number of areas you people are ahead of us in allowing the voice of reason to be heard

and it's heard loudly in the US now there as far as I can see there is absolutely not a

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