Posted on 11/22/2010 11:25:00 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands. Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands.
All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. The city of Alphen aan den Rijn ordered the study five years ago after officials found unexplained abnormalities on trees that couldn't be ascribed to a virus or bacterial infection.
Additional testing found the disease to occur throughout the Western world. In the Netherlands, about 70 percent of all trees in urban areas show the same symptoms, compared with only 10 percent five years ago. Trees in densely forested areas are hardly affected.
Besides the electromagnetic fields created by mobile-phone networks and wireless LANs, ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks may also be to blame. These particles are so small they are able to enter the organisms.
The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a "lead-like shine" on their leaves that was caused by the dying of the upper and lower epidermis of the leaves. This would eventually result in the death of parts of the leaves. The study also found that Wi-Fi radiation could inhibit the growth of corn cobs.
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...but texting on a cell phone next to your ear and temple is just fine.....?????
This is pretty much exactly what I thought.
In other words, they have no way to control the variables. These studies took place in urban locations. It could just be the traffic.
Who knows? Maybe vehicles with emission controls are MORE harmful to trees, because they emit smaller particles. Send me a few hundred thousand dollars, and I'll run some tests on it.
I want to be a lumberjack...
Heretic! ;^)
How many millions will be marching in the streets in a couple of years to stop Wi-Fi? Don’t laugh...
I was expecting something completely different.
It’s called ‘sap’..
But not all EM is of the same frquency or amplitude.
I would like to know how they controlled for ambient EM sources, harmful industrial gases, and particulate matter
in their experimentation.
I’m guessing the results matter more than the methodology. The new “science.”
I’m pretty sure if you wrap all of the trees in tin foil that’ll solve the problem.
and fissures in the bark
I watched a segment of This Old house the other night and the landscaper was pointing out the common and destructive practice of piling mulch up around tree trunks. He called it a mulch volcano. Side it smothers the roots. Leads to fissures on the bark and eventually kills it.
After that I started noticing this everywhere. Exp. city boulevards. Driving me nuts. I really is killing these beautiful and expensive trees. I just want to get out and scrap that junk away.
Ignorance is killing more trees then WIFI.
Trees are no longer politically correct anyway. The can fall down in high winds and cause property damage and kill people. Down with trees. Except those damaged by wi-fi of course. Up with those.
Semaphores. Or Navy style signal flags.
Every time the Drudge Report refreshes without me asking it to, a tree dies.
I think that I shall never see
A web page lovely as a tree.
Expect anything that drives the economy and lots of cash to be found harmful by leftists. First they accuse it, then they tax it. Nuclear, oil, and now communications. It’s a pattern.
I think Wi-FI makes people go CRAZY! Enuf to vote for Socialist and think airplanes are missiles!
The AlGore method in reverse. See global warming is real it was 30 degrees for a high in December and it is now it is 90 in June! Global warming.
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