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Other => Other => Topic started by: honvetops on April 15, 2007, 05:47:29 AM
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I guess this is as good as any for an explanation, This is 100% more serious then the global warming LIE*.....
We have to eat you know...........
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
Published: 15 April 2007
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.
The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.
CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.
Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."
The implications of the spread are alarming. :-X Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".
No one knows why it is happening. Theories involving mites, pesticides, global warming and GM crops have been proposed, but all have drawbacks.
German research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines.
Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.
Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."
The case against handsets
Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. But proof is still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, take decades to show up.
Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. But an official Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side as they held the handset.
Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today's teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives.
Studies in India and the US have raised the possibility that men who use mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. And, more prosaically, doctors have identified the condition of "text thumb", a form of RSI from constant texting.
Professor Sir William Stewart, who has headed two official inquiries, warned that children under eight should not use mobiles and made a series of safety recommendations, largely ignored by ministers.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece
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Fascinating, and alarming! I know a beekeeper. Next time I see her, this is going to be a topic of conversation.
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There are other published reports that attribute this to pesticides...but i would have no issues with cell phones being removed completely... ::)
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Not only bees! People too. I see a lot of cell-phone users that are basically a waste of semen.
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Same here.
Especially when they focus on their phone to the extent that they ignore everything else, causing other problems.
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hmm
I heard about this on the news.
Its interesting
You know, they used to think that Laptops caused sterility.
Me, I have a cell phone. I dont like it.
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They're no longer called laptops for several reasons, one of them being that people would burn their lap and the other perhaps being all those office workers are no longer being able to reproduce..
There's been a lot of study on whether having a warm crotch is good for reproduction or not. It was never about radiation, Zylstra.
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Not only bees! People too. I see a lot of cell-phone users that are basically a waste of semen.
OMG LMAO !!! no doubt, I HAVE, TO HAVE ONE (work) and tears pour out my eyes when that (right now! :'( thing rings! I am on call every-weekend and it bites. Any normal human being would just get a (for example) Virgin Mobile- pre-paid cell phone for emergencies only. That for me at least cuts down the chatter. 20.00 for 3 months use, not bad!
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I used to have one too, but I think I lost it somewhere..
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This is why I keep my cell phone off....
Thanks for the clarification, Raptop.
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Raptop... LOL
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Raptop... LOL
Goodness... (I feel I am making myself an enemy...)
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>:(
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Hmm, I think Raptop has a nice ring to it. Sounds a lot friendlier. Kinda cute even.
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>:( >:(
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Raptor...it's your new avatar that's throwing them off....
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Raptor...it's your new avatar that's throwing them off....
It's the doctor. He's arrogant, charming and very intelligent. Modeled after me!
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Aww, lookit the cute Raptop . . . ow my hand!
It bit my ******* hand off!
Aww, isn't it cute . . .
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Biting costs extra.
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Hmm, I think Raptop has a nice ring to it. Sounds a lot friendlier. Kinda cute even.
This:?
Source: http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/794/This+cat+is+so+cute/
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Who got the idea to call Dr.Raptoe..............Raptop ?
Cell phones suck!! ;D
On the idea of pollinators,If you strip the land and don't
leave 30% of the farms woodlands natural, like
God intended ...You just forgot to leave the pollinators
habitat.
Those without a God,May substitute,Mother Nature,
or your favorite VooDoo Doll. ;D
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>:( >:(
Aww, so precious.
Hmm, I think Raptop has a nice ring to it. Sounds a lot friendlier. Kinda cute even.
This:?
Source: http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/794/This+cat+is+so+cute/
That's just creepy. But I guess it works.
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Hmm, I think Raptop has a nice ring to it. Sounds a lot friendlier. Kinda cute even.
This:?
Source: http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/794/This+cat+is+so+cute/
Dumba$$ed-Cat (http://www.superlaugh.com/1/catnip.htm)
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No cell phones after all. (http://www.latimes.com/news/la-sci-bees26apr26,0,7437491.story?track=mostviewed-storylevel)
A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that is wiping out bees across the United States, UC San Francisco researchers said Wednesday.
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No cell phones after all. (http://www.latimes.com/news/la-sci-bees26apr26,0,7437491.story?track=mostviewed-storylevel)
A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that is wiping out bees across the United States, UC San Francisco researchers said Wednesday.
*bet* it will be something completely different an attributed to in less than 4 weeks........... they are making stuff up now because no one still knows for sure, they find one* cause in one area but can't prove its the wide-spread cause......... wait...............
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It's true there isn't a definite answer yet, but if I had to make a bet, I'd put my money on a fungus before cell phones. :) But like you said lets wait and see.
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Maybe the bees are just really sad.
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It's true there isn't a definite answer yet, but if I had to make a bet, I'd put my money on a fungus before cell phones. :) But like you said lets wait and see.
thats because the "fungus" has been the culprit in the past and they don't want to stir up a "hornets" nest by alarming to another cause !! lol hornets nest!!
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What's a hornest nest ? ?
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It's a nest with *censored* ets.
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You mean est's
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Are they *censored*?
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Only at the end of their stingers...
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;D
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Proof (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_hornet_video.html)
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Weren't you trying to correct Honvetops on his spelling of Hornets?
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Nice pun honvetops. :)
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1 hr ago
My friend who works on cell phone towers says that honey bees are attracted to the signal on the cell phone tower and he has 1000 of dead honey bees around every tower he goes to. They can't find their way home.
(above posted online in news-talk forum)
^ from topix.net < Much news on this today on forum boards around the country (USA) fungus / parasite / electronics / winter weather ????
still no definitive answers on this one, this story (problem) is BIG-NEWS......
honve~ ???