This would be a lot more interesting if it wasn’t the same hysterical greenie crank who used to co-chair the IPCC and demonstrated a burning zealotry to “dedevelop”* humanity back to the stone age.
* Would that be “velop” if you “de” “develop”?
Coalition adviser orders review of ‘safe’ pesticides
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Growing concern about the new generation of pesticides used on 2.5 million acres of UK farmland has led one of the Government’s most senior scientific advisers to order a review of the evidence used to justify their safety.
There are mounting fears around the world that the growing use of “neonicotinoid” pesticides, which work by poisoning the nervous system of insects, could explain why bees and other pollinating insects are in such dramatic decline in Britain, Europe and the United States, where the insecticide is widely used.
The official British government position has been that the insecticide is safe when used correctly – but Professor Robert Watson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has now initiated his own inquiry, The Independent can reveal, because of concerns about the alleged effects on bees. (The Independent)
