Wi-Fi Is Killing Our Trees!
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:14 pm
Wi-Fi Is Killing Our Trees!
By Robert Boland.
"Everything seems grand, you could be one of many people sitting there at home or at work reading this article and you haven’t a care in the world. But have you ever thought about all those poor trees that your harming??."
While many people have questioned theadverse side affects of wireless networks, nobody has really found any evidence that it affects humans at all. However, scientists from the Dutch city Alphen aan den Rijn have been getting worried about the trees in their area and decided to commission a study to see what was going on.
In their study, they found that over the last 5 years, deciduous trees in the western world have been affected by radiation from Mobile Phones and also wireless LAN’s.
In fact, over 70 percent of trees in urban areas of the Netherlands were showing signs of “Wi-Fi sickness”. The symptoms include variations in growth, bleeding and fissures in the bark. If look back to 5 years ago, only a mere 10 percent were showing signs on the illness. Scientists conducted this study after they noticed some abnormalities on trees that couldn’t be explained by known viral or bacterial infections.
Meanwhile, out of the urban areas, the trees seem to be fine and not suffering from any signs of “Wi-Fi sickness”
So while our trees may be feeling the affects of all this wireless radiation floating about the place, what affect does it have on us humans? The Health Protection Agency states that “there is no consistent evidence to date that exposure to radio signals from Wi-Fi and WLANs adversely affects the health of the general population”.
Really the only signs that people are showing from exposure to these technologies is some mild headaches and cases of nausea.
Generally speaking, Wi-Fi isn’t really going to cause us any trouble, is the mobile phone radiation which is a lot more powerful, but still nothing has proven that it’s bad for you. You’d have to live in a Wi-Fi hotspot for a year to absorb the same amount of radio waves as you would from a 20-minute phone call!
So really the trees are the only ones suffering at the moment
By Robert Boland.
"Everything seems grand, you could be one of many people sitting there at home or at work reading this article and you haven’t a care in the world. But have you ever thought about all those poor trees that your harming??."
While many people have questioned theadverse side affects of wireless networks, nobody has really found any evidence that it affects humans at all. However, scientists from the Dutch city Alphen aan den Rijn have been getting worried about the trees in their area and decided to commission a study to see what was going on.
In their study, they found that over the last 5 years, deciduous trees in the western world have been affected by radiation from Mobile Phones and also wireless LAN’s.
In fact, over 70 percent of trees in urban areas of the Netherlands were showing signs of “Wi-Fi sickness”. The symptoms include variations in growth, bleeding and fissures in the bark. If look back to 5 years ago, only a mere 10 percent were showing signs on the illness. Scientists conducted this study after they noticed some abnormalities on trees that couldn’t be explained by known viral or bacterial infections.
Meanwhile, out of the urban areas, the trees seem to be fine and not suffering from any signs of “Wi-Fi sickness”
So while our trees may be feeling the affects of all this wireless radiation floating about the place, what affect does it have on us humans? The Health Protection Agency states that “there is no consistent evidence to date that exposure to radio signals from Wi-Fi and WLANs adversely affects the health of the general population”.
Really the only signs that people are showing from exposure to these technologies is some mild headaches and cases of nausea.
Generally speaking, Wi-Fi isn’t really going to cause us any trouble, is the mobile phone radiation which is a lot more powerful, but still nothing has proven that it’s bad for you. You’d have to live in a Wi-Fi hotspot for a year to absorb the same amount of radio waves as you would from a 20-minute phone call!
So really the trees are the only ones suffering at the moment