wifi hurts trees study

[poetmk]

WiFi Hurts Trees?

 

[Daniel]

WOW.. who'd have thunk?

ANd if it is bad for trees, what's it doing to our kids?

 

[Tr33Climb3r]

so that is kind of scary. Thinking that plants are more sensitive to the environment than we are.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The effects of all of the various electrical/magnetic/high frequency waver energy forces that we've added to the environment over the past century and a half won't be known for a long time. There is the possibility of cellular mutations going on that won't be measured or noticed for some time to come. By then, how will we turn things back?

All of this radiation effects everything equally. Plants, critters, humans young and old.

 

[treestyler]

I've seen the item on the news here.
It's kind off bizar and we porbably find out in a couple of decades that it affects humans and animals as well.

The air is full of electromagnetic signals and it surrounds us allmost every day. Indoors we got mobile phones, wireless telephone, WiFi, remote controls for lights and so on....

This all has an inpact on us and only time will tell the outcome.

Best to live in a non polluted area ;-)

 

[sean_freeman]

Sorry guys, whilst I am sure that these researchers deserve to complete their work (of course!) I am in no way convinced by what is reported in the link and others that can be found by googling the institution and the topic.

It is a real shame if what is reported reflects the quality of the actual work...or rather the lack there of...maybe I'll hold fire till I see the final paper.

 

[nuthin_special]

Right away i doubt the study. I don't doubt that WIFI can be damaging to organic tissues but this seems off. Who's doing the study? Techies or plant scientists? They did refer to "leaf skin" what the heck is that? Cuticle? Also 20 trees is a pretty small sample size.

Show more studies in their entirety. That is a big claim to make from an "early study". Maybe they've found EAB in the Netherlands and haven't realized it yet.

Anyway, now i have something to blame an otherwise unexplained tree sickness. "It looks like your tree is suffering from WIFI burn."

 

[Treespotter]

A couple of years ago in a town called Alphen a/d Rijn trees (ash) where starting to get lumps on their bark.
After a couple of years study by the Agricultural university of Wageningen, they where not able to find any bacterial, viral, fungal, or insect infestation. What researchers did notice was the fact that the plagued trees where found nearby transmitters. So the University started a small scale test.
The stuff you where reading was IMHO not to be put in the news, but should be tested on a larger scale before 'hitting the world'.

 

[poetmk]

One week later in the news! Wifi WiFi and Tree saga.

Can't they make up their minds?

It did seem kinda fishy - guess it will take more than one study to say yay or nay.