Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says

[piratebay]

By René Schoemaker , IDG News

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.

We have got to regulate and possibly ban all forms of radio communication or there won't be a tree left in the whole world.

Maybe you all don't care, but my old Dachshund will have a real problem with that.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211219/wifi_makes_trees_sick_study_says.html

[WhiteTara]

1. ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks

is what I'm betting on. Too much to absorb.

[maryf]

7. people are less dense than trees...

hmmm?

[WhiteTara]

9. true, but I also remember when cell phones were

supposed to be the cause of bee colony die off. The true culprit there is Bayer Chemical's pesticides.

But hey, if true and I don't come back to DU, you can assume the wi-fi got me. :rofl:

[sally cat]

2. Yes, wifi is the only possible explanation.

[piratebay]

3. Ah Ha, a Wi-Fi tree killer denier I see

Easy for you to say, do you have a link to a peer reviewed study to refudiate this report?

[joshcryer]

4. refudiate

:rofl:

[joshcryer]

5. The people who did the study said more research is needed.

I don't know what's so controversial except that someone may have found something but they don't know if it's something or not.

[obliviously]

6. That is so funny! Thanks!

[progressoid]

8. Isn't this what is killing the bees too?

No, wait. That's cell phone towers.

Nevermind.

[happyslug]

10. Duplicate Topic and cite, the other one is time at 10:08 am

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x266432

[guardian]

11. Quick let form a group to ban trees inside of Starbucks.

I guess it's all the DUer's laptops and BlackBerrys killing the trees. I feel dirty.


"We have got to ... ban all forms of radio communication or there won't be a tree left in the whole world."
Feeling a bit hyperbolic this morning?

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