“All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by a group of institutions, including the TU Delft University and Wageningen University,” Schoemaker reports. “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.”
Schoemaker reports, “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.”
Read more in the full article, via Macworld UK, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Uh, great (as we sit here with WiFi streaming all around and, likely, through us – for the last 11+ years, no less).
Just warp the trees in tinfoil
I’ve wondered if all this stuff flying through the air impacted life.
Ppl are so addicted to instant info that no matter the health consequences, they will not give it up.
I think there ARE serious health consequences that will be confirmed by objective science within the next decade.
Trees = oxygen, #1 necessity for life on earth for humanimals, so one can’t be so crass as to dismiss the possibility that trees are under assault from many sources. Man needs trees far more than he is willing to acknowledge.
Someone said “junk science”. It’s the same science that won WWII and got us to the moon. So, all this radiation from wifi has no effect on anything, just like all the co2 from exhaust doesn’t go anywhere?
A little test you can do for yourself — I’ve done it and was amazed.
Have a friend test your arm when it’s extended to the side by the friend pushing down and noticing your ability to resist. Now put a quarter teaspoon of white sugar in your mouth (swish around) and test again.
Then as a separate experiment have a friend test your arm when you hold your cell phone in your other hand (and of course without the cell phone). You might be very surprised at the results.
Search for applied kinesiology (AK or muscle testing) on google.
MDN magic word “found” as in look what I found!
Kaiser Wilhelm deforested his Dutch estate by chopping down all the trees; he needed something to do after abdication.
A “study” that observes a result and ascribes a cause with no “Control group” is not a study.
Last year cell phones were supposedly killing the honey bee population – turned out to be something completely different.
They have no idea what is causing the tree problem. Nobody went out and measured the radiation emitting from WiFi.
WiFi is extremely close range an it would be a very unlikely culprit.
Not saying there is not a tree problem – just that they have no idea what the cause is.
Whenever I read these kind of items, I just smile.
Cui bono? Who benefits from reporting this?
Oh whatever…. typical environmental whacko-ism. It’s all sensationalism with an agenda to make us all cavemen. Fuck ’em.
Basically all they said was that trees near cities have problems, whereas trees in the wilderness don’t.
So, apparently this means that the only difference between cities and wilderness is WiFi.
So, this means when I go on my camping trip in the Canadian wilderness, there are no lakes, woods, rivers, fishing, etc. Next time I’ll just skip my Canada trip, and instead I’ll just turn off my home WiFi and pretend I’m in the wilderness. That’ll do it. Complete relaxation as I free myself from the WiFi burden of the city….. ahhhh finally. Who needs to go fishing when you can jsut turn off the Wifi?
Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the trees…
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/no-link-proven-between-wifi-trees-dying-antennebureau
This “study” so dutifully spread by sycophant media is nothing but Eco-Porn. No original paper is available for review (all searches come up negative). No way to see just what their research methods were.
Hey- EnviroWacko’s… look up the word “Causality”….
Probably funded by George Soros.
@Bonkers For Mac
your leaving in all kinds of experimental error:
1 having your hand closed can change how much you can resist, rather then ingoring whats in your hand when you have no cell phone (try it with a rock too)
2 there’s this neat thing called THE PLACEBO EFFECT and it causes all kinds of experimental errors. why don’t YOU google THAT and come back and tell me that you experiment works.
@Y
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Be careful Y if you ever vacation down south.
They do have internet access and might be
reading your post
Junk science = any scientific findings that people don’t want to believe or find inconvenient to their lifestyle.
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I’m asking you sir, at the top of my lungs – that thing! That horrible thing that I see! What’s that thing you’ve made out of my truffula tree?
Ummm, before I accept this study as fact. A group should create this from sample trees with wifi isolated so as to recreate this problem.
I would like more proof that wifi is the cause and not just an associated cause. The ultra fine particulates seem to be down played as well as other factors. Too many variables to isolate WiFi as the cause. They need to do more studies for sure.
Now, can that explain why women are always exfoliating there skin? Sensitive as the pedals of a flower or the surface of a deciduous tree!
There’s also this:
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/no-link-proven-between-wifi-trees-dying-antennebureau
I guess the truth is, so to speak, “up in the air.”
It has been proven that WIFI affects many parts of the human body, including memory, and the hormone that enables you to fall asleep soundly.
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has denied the validity of the asumptions of TU Delft University and Wageningen University’s.
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2382894/tno-distantieert-zich-van-onderzoek-wifi-straling.html
Ah, posted already, I see.
I love how a lot of people just dismiss this as hokum. Macromancer is right, people just dismiss anything they don’t want to hear.
And by the way, this is coming from a staunch conservative, not a “libtard.” If you don’t believe I’m conservative, many of my comments on this site will back up that claim.
study v. likely completely fraudulent
I’m not a scientist, but I’m pretty sure radio waves existed long before we learned how to “use” them. In fact, the earth is being hit by naturally occurring radio waves from distant stars constantly.
Does it matter if the wavelength carries a code that can be deciphered or if its random? I think not.
Has anyone looked at trees next to microwave transmission / radio towers over the last 60 years or so?
That would seem to be the first place it would show up if this had any basis.