The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has just begun to take oral evidence from a very select group of witnesses, writes Paul Mobbs in this open letter. Sadly its choices betray a systematic bias to industry and establishment figures - while community groups are entirely excluded.
… which the Royal Society and other subsequent reviews, due to prematurity or through taking … carried out such a study. In my view, what reviews of Government policy have taken place …
Medact, the organization of health professionals for a safer, fairer and better world, has called for a five year moratorium on fracking due to its serious hazards to public health, writes Paul Mobbs. Their new report is a powerful challenge to government policy that cannot be ignored.
… review considers a number of existing reviews of the evidence of 'fracking' on … actually reviewed the evidence The report reviews a number of existing studies from … and public health than the Government's reviews have been willing (or politically …
The pesticide industry and regulators have repeatedly misled the public with claims that glyphosate is safe, says Claire Robinson. As a result, Monsanto's Roundup is used by gardeners and local authorities, in school grounds, and in farmers’ fields
The inside story on Monsanto and the glyphosate birth defect data Claire Robinson | 13th June 2011 Comment Monsanto Glyphosate Pesticides Herbicides Health Comment malformaciones1.jpg The pesticide …
Little publicised government plans to 'reform' court costs are intended to foreclose access to environmental justice for all but the wealthiest individuals and communities, writes Paul Mobbs. Meanwhile cuts to agencies and regulators will make it ever harder for them to do their jobs - making public participation in environmental protection all the more important.
… "Consultations, impact assessments, audits, reviews, stakeholder management, securing … this. Here's how: "Cutting back on judicial reviews. "Reducing government consultations. …
Public Health England is guilty of gross scientific misconduct, writes Paul Mobbs, for its apparently deliberate whitewashing of the public health impacts of fracking. But it's all part of a pattern of maladministration that reaches to the heart of government.
Shale gas and public health - the whitewash exposed Paul Mobbs | 6th May 2014 News Fracking Health UK Law Fossil Fuels Pollution Radiation gasmasks-cut.jpg Public Health England is guilty of gross …
There's absolutely no evidence for BBC Panorama's claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal in Bangladesh, writes Claire Robinson. But that has not stopped the BBC Trust from dismissing all complaints against its monstrously dishonest report. Nor has it diminished the jubilation of GMO cheerleaders.
BBC's GMO coverage 'fair and accurate'? You decide Claire Robinson GMWatch | 14th April 2016 Comment GMOs Science Bangladesh Media UK Regulation Farming Corporations brinjal-cut.jpg There's …
A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
Fracking 'as bad for climate as coal' - UK's dodgy dossier exposed Paul Mobbs | 30th May 2014 News Energy Fossil Fuels Fracking UK Climate Change Science fracking-bakken-ndakota-cut.jpg A wholesale …
A 2001 study that showed that glyphosate caused cancer in mice was ignored by the EFSA after the unsubstantiated allegation of a former US-EPA official that the mice used in the study were suffering from a viral infection that might have given them cancer, writes Claire Robinson. The EFSA failed to properly investigate the allegation, which appears to originate in a document linked to Monsanto, maker of the world's top-selling herbicide, glyphosate-based Roundup.
… and published in the journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology , which has industry …
A consistent pattern is emerging in the UK government's plans and policies, writes Paul Mobbs: the stripping away of human rights and freedoms; the detachment of public institutions from democratic accountability; an increase of the powers of the state; and the empowerment of corporations at the expense of people. We must act to preserve our liberties, while we still can.
… held back due to legal processes and judicial reviews and appeals and actually I think what …
The Reuters news organisation has just sullied its reputation with a disgraceful attack on the WHO's specialist body on cancer, the IARC, writes Claire Robinson. Resorting to smear, innuendo and anonymous critics, it relies heavily on discredited industry sources including tobacco defenders in its attempt to undermine IARC's view that glyphosate probably causes cancer.
… share them with IARC, leading the scientific reviews specialist Paul Whaley to dub them …
Cutting-edge molecular profiling analyses reveal that the popular weedkiller Roundup causes serious liver damage to rats at low doses permitted by regulators, reports Claire Robinson. The findings suggest that residues of glyphosate-based herbicides in food could be linked to rises in the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes and 'metabolic syndrome'.
Roundup residues in food cause fatty liver disease Claire Robinson GMWatch | 9th January 2017 News Science Health Pesticides obesity-cut.jpg Cutting-edge molecular profiling analyses reveal that the …
Just as long term research into the health impacts of the 'electrosmog' created by wifi and mobile phones is yielding its first results, it's at risk of sudden termination from President Trump's budget cuts, writes Paul Mobbs. But the cuts have little to do with saving money - and a lot to do with protecting corporate profit and economic growth from harsh truths, including evidence that electrosmog causes cancer in laboratory rats, and maybe humans too.
… 1990s, but the result of initial scientific reviews was essentially, ' we don't know '. …
As Michael Gove gives his first speech as Justice Secretary, promising to update our 'creaking and outdated' courts, Paul Mobbs writes that 'reforms' to date have only deepened the injustice that afflicts poor defendants: penalising the innocent, burdening those who plead 'not guilty' with heavy charges regardless of ability to pay, cutting legal aid, and halving the number of duty solicitors.
A 'poll tax' for English justice - subjecting the poor to 'trial by ordeal' Paul Mobbs | 23rd June 2015 News Law UK Politics Human Rights. justice-old-bailey-cut.jpg As Michael Gove gives his first …
Why does the fracking lobby refuse to engage in open, public debate? Because, writes Paul Mobbs, it has already got its way, with the uncritical support of all the 'mainstream' media and political parties. You and I simply do not matter. So what are we going to do about that?
Fracking - you are not important Paul Mobbs | 24th June 2014 Comment Fracking Politics Corporations Science Health Fossil Fuels barton-moss-steven-speed-cut.jpg Why does the fracking lobby refuse to …
A new scientific paper presents the radiation produced by fracking as 'natural' and harmless. But it's based on sketchy data, hyperbolic statistics and questionable assumptions, writes Paul Mobbs. Is it an attempt to stifle an essential public debate?
An abuse of science - concealing fracking's radioactive footprint Paul Mobbs | 8th July 2014 News Fracking Radiation Fossil Fuels Science Regulation UK ikaria-spring-cut.jpg Some springs on Ikaria, …
In the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 we have found oil slicks and debris everywhere - none of it connected to the missing plane, writes Paul Mobbs. The seas are littered with human trash, and it's killing the oceanic ecosystem.
What MH370 told us - the oceans are awash with trash Paul Mobbs | 5th April 2014 Comment Waste Oceans Transport ocean-rubbish-2.png In the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 we have found oil …
A recent scientific study found the same long-chain omega-3 oils that are engineered into a new GM Camelina oilseed variety make butterflies grow up with deformed wings, writes Claire Robinson. Attempts by the 'pro-science' non-scientist Mark Lynas to discredit the study are a mixture of ignorance, research failures, 'straw man' arguments and outright errors.
GMO lobby's false claims to defend GM oilseed against deformed butterfly findings Claire Robinson GMWatch | 9th May 2016 Activism GMOs Science Media Health Ecology UK …
The UK government claim that fracking is a 'clean' energy source rests on the conclusions of a single scientific paper, writes Paul Mobbs. And now that paper has been conclusively invalidated: it uses misleading figures that understate the methane emissions from fracking, and subsequent findings have left it totally discredited. Yet the paper is still being quoted to justify fracking, and the fool the public on its climate change impacts.
Whitehall's fracking science failure: shale gas really is worse for climate than coal Paul Mobbs | 24th May 2017 News Fracking Climate Change Science Fossil Fuels USA UK ch4-cut.jpg The UK government …
A new financial crisis is threatening to dwarf the 'subprime' mortgage debacle, writes Paul Mobbs. Cheap money from central banks has fuelled some $1.3 trillion of risky investments in high-cost 'unconventional' oil and gas. Now, with oil sinking below $60, all that paper is turning to junk - and that's putting the entire economic system at risk.
With sub-$60 oil, fracking and tar sands losses threaten the whole financial system Paul Mobbs | 17th December 2014 News Finance Oil Gas Fossil Fuels Economics fracking-burns-cut.jpg A new financial …
Chemicals, pesticides, GM and agrofuels – when it comes to food production it seems the lunatics are running the asylum. But there is hope in some new approaches
… Wan Ho et al. Claire Robinson | 1st May 2008 Reviews Organic Sustainable Agriculture …
Fracking is just another step on the fossil fuel treadmill, according to 'Snake Oil' by Richard Heinberg. High costs, diminishing returns and growing pollution will ultimately nail its future. Paul Mobbs urges readers - give a copy to your MP before it's too late!
… our future Paul Mobbs | 20th March 2014 Reviews Fossil Fuels UK USA Fracking …
Economics is much more than the study of money, writes Paul Mobbs. It is a belief system, and in its 'mainstream' incarnation, one that serves a very useful purpose - for those that reap the benefits. But as Brian Davey shows in his insightful new book, it's letting the rest of us down: failing to deliver human wellbeing, while driving ecological calamity.
… Paul Mobbs | 6th November 2015 Reviews Economics Books Politics …
Politicians are forever citing 'terror' as a reason to expand the security state and restrict civil liberties, writes Paul Mobbs. But when it comes to the real threats that face the world - ecological breakdown, climate disruption, resource crises, and an unjust and rapacious world order ... well, that's all 'green crap'. Isn't it?
Britain's real 'terror threat': eco-sceptic politicians Paul Mobbs | 3rd September 2014 Comment War Oil Water Climate Change Society Politics Iraq Syria drought-santafe-arg-cut.jpg Politicians are …
Greenpeace is being attacked for 'crimes against humanity' by 100 Nobel laureates for blocking GMO 'golden' rice, reports Claire Robinson. But the low-yielding crop is years away from going on sale, and there is no proof of any nutritional benefit to the malnourished children it's meant to benefit. Could the distinguished prize-winners have fallen for slick pro-GMO PR and spin?
Pro-GMO campaign exploits Nobel laureates in 'Golden Rice' Greenpeace attack Claire Robinson | 4th July 2016 Comment GMOs Campaigning Science Health Food golden_rice-cut.jpg Greenpeace is being …