My skepticism follows swirts point.
I have wifi in the house and struggle to get a signal in different rooms. WiFi generally doesn’t travel that far…unlike cellphone transmissions and powerlines.
Ever try to get a wi fi signal on your laptop…even in the city park..never mind the urban forests?
I’d love to know what kind of dosage was in their small study. “We put the 1.21 Gigawatt flux capacitor at a distance of 3 centimeters 24/7 for 3 months and saw evidence that it wasn’t healthy” now we need a grant to do a real study to generate more of the inconclusive results they deride at the beginning of their story!
I am all for researching safety…but if high power transmitters on poles to give you 10 mile radius 4 bar coverage = “no problems” now we move to low power. To me I wonder if someone just couldn’t get the funding for ‘another round’ on cell phone safety, so now they move on to a new source for WiFi.
Ya need to spend some time seeing how this grant and funding process works. I did my PhD research for 5 years at Penn State, and worked for a brand new assistant professor get established and gain funding and tenure. then 2 years as a Research Fellow for semiconductor materials at Arizona State University where I worked with their MRSEC (Materials Research Science and Engineering Center) which was a pooling of resources to gain mega government bucks as a consortium rather than funding individual professors.
EVERY anomolous finding represents the next cure for cancer, global warming and Erectile dysfunction all in one time release capsule if only we could get enough funding…
And if I just paste it in… It absolutely is an URBAN issue. They specifically state that rural trees are UNAFFECTED…and what does their comment (urban areas, especially) mean if not that they focused on urban areas?
The study, conducted by Wageningen University, investigated findings that trees in areas with high Wi-Fi activity (urban areas, especially) were suffering from symptoms that couldn’t be tied to typical bacterial or viral causes. The symptoms included bleeding (!), fissures in the bark, the death of parts of leaves, and abnormal growth.
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Of course, trees in rural or even simply non-urban environments are pretty much unaffected, but theoretically, all deciduous trees in the Western world could be affected.
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