Welcome to bbc news. The conservative mp Charlie Elphicke has denied any wrongdoing after being suspended by the party for what Officials Say are serious allegations which have been passed to the police. The party didnt give any details about what the allegations are or who had made them. Mr elphicke, a member of the influcencial commons treasury select committee, said the media had been told of his suspension first, and he wasnt aware of the nature of the claims. The conservative party has introduced a new code of conduct and labour has introduced a new complaints procedure, following soot. Live to westminster and our Political Correspondent emma va rdy. It feels like decades of Sexual Misconduct are now coming to light. A number of labourand misconduct are now coming to light. A number of labour and conservative mps are facing allegations and many of those are being strenuously denied. We are seeing theresa may and Jeremy Corbyn under pressure over this, and many feel that what we ar
The conservative mp Charlie Elphicke has denied any wrongdoing after being suspended by the party for what Officials Say are serious allegations which have been passed to the police. The party didnt give any details about what the allegations are, or who had made them. It comes amid growing concern in westminster over the conduct of politicians following a string of allegations of sexual abuse in parliament. The conservatives have published a new code of conduct for mps and other elected representatives, while labour has introduced a new complaints procedure. It has been described as a torrid week here in westminster with what feels like decades of Sexual Misconduct coming to life. There are a number of mps facing allegations and many are being strenuously denied. Theresa may and Jeremy Corbyn are both under pressure and that this. Many feel that what we are seeing here is a culture change in british politics and it is long overdue. New allegations are emerging frequently. This is Char
This is overheard. applauding katharine hayhoe, welcome. Thank you for having me. Nice to have you here. So i thought we would do a baseline for this conversation. Alright. So, establish a baseline. Global warming is real . Yes. Climate change is real . That too. Climate science is legitimate . Yes and its very old. So whats everybodys glitch . Why is this even a thing . Why are we even arguing about this . This is the big debate. It is. [evan] yeah. The number one reason were arguing is because people dont like what they perceive to be the solutions and its easier to say it isnt a real problem than to say it is a real problem, but i dont want to fix it. So is the problem a problem of ideology . Is the problem a problem of faith at odds with some of this stuff, science, and whathaveyou . Is the problem a problem of economics at odds with this or is it some combination of those things . The smokescreens that we see when it comes to Climate Change, the smokescreens people throw up, are s
Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. laughing this is overheard. applauding katharine hayhoe, welcome. Thank you for having me. Nice to have you here. So i thought we would do a baseline for this conversation. Alright. So, establish a baseline. Global warming is real . Yes. Climate change is real . That too. Climate science is legitimate . Yes and its very old. So whats everybodys glitch . Why is this even a thing . Why are we even arguing about this . This is the big debate. It is. [evan] yeah. The number one reason were arguing is because people dont like what they perceive to be the solutions and its easier to say it isnt a real problem than to say it is a real problem, but i dont want to fix it. So is the problem a problem of ideology . Is the problem a problem of faith at odds with some of this stuff, science, and whathaveyou . Is the problem a problem of economics at odds with this or is it some combination of those things . The smokescreen
Because he came to tucson in about 1960, and he was the only one with at the time who was really interested in studying the moon and the planet. So at the time astronomers were very interested and distancing galaxy and nebula that were far we an there were few people interested at all in study the moon it was close, it was boring. You can see it pretty clearly through a telescope there wasnt much there so gerard was only one who wanted to do that, and that became incredibly important in 1961 when suddenly the president aannounced we were going to send people to the moon. Why did he come to tucson to study the moon . One with was reasons was because we have a beautiful dark desert skies, so it was already a hub of the astronomer and gerard would short isly make it a hub of Planetary Science quite a different field actually and my book i talk about tucson as birthplace of Planetary Science not only dark skies and we have clear, you know, a clear view of the planets. We have these wonderf