This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

To Simon Constable, my colleague in the south of France, Paradise, and we look at the climate,

the commodities, and then, of course, at the politics of Paris and London.

Simon's origins are in London.

However, we begin with the question of the weather, the climate, watching for indication of a change, a profound change in expectations.

I am in southern New England. It's cold. It snowed a

couple of times. There was a big storm that missed us to the south. However, we can expect more.

In other words, a perfectly recognizable and comfortable New England winter,

the kind that would have been possible any time in the last 300 years. Simon, how is it in the south of France?

Good day to you.

Good day to you, John.

Thank you for having me on the show.

Well, this morning got up and it was 43 Fahrenheit and went up to a high of 61.

That's not unduly unexpected. And it is a nice temperature to go outside in. It's not a not a

swimsuit type of weather, but it is still very nice for this time of year, and it's not unusual.

We're expecting similar temperatures to go through the next few days, and then

over the weekend it may go quite a bit lower, but nothing to write home about, really.

So the farmer shrug, this is wintertime. Now we turn to the prices. These last years of the

Ukrainian war, we have expected a price spike in energy because of the cutoff of Russian energy.

And we were looking in the wrong place.

Let's begin with energy.

What do you see today?

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