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Forgive me if I have already sent this to you all. Jim ------------ From: Richard Rogers <drogers@wildwoodlabs.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:41:33 -0300 To: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Cc: Cory Sheffield <corysheffield@yahoo.ca>, Kenna MacKenzie < mackenziek@agr.gc.ca <mailto:mackenziek@agr.gc.ca> >, Jeff Ogden <ogdenjb@gov.ns.ca>, Todd Smith < todd.smith@acadiau.ca <mailto:todd.smith@acadiau.ca> >, "Linda Lusby/P.C. Smith" <linda.lusby@acadiau.ca> Subject: Re: FW: Mobile Phones and Vanishing Birds (29/05/07) and bees as well !! Hi Jim, The cell phone thing is not supported by scientific data or researchers who have worked in this area. While attending the SETAC Europe conference three weeks ago, I had a chance to talk with Stephen Kimmel, one of the authors of the cellphone study that keeps getting mentioned by the media as a contributing factor in the bee losses. Stephen told me that they do not support such a claim and are not interested in taking any further inquiries from the media. In fact, they are very upset with the media interpretation of their work. Just thought I would mention this to put the media reports in perspective. Regards, Dick On 6/13/07, Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: ---------- From: Janet M Eaton <jmeaton@ns.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: jmeaton@ns.sympatico.ca Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:37:39 -0300 To: ENVLOCAL@eastlink.ca Subject: Mobile Phones and Vanishing Birds (29/05/07) and bees as well !! fyi-janet ============== Mobile Phones and Vanishing Birds (29/05/07) http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3778251/ Birds near mobile phone base stations do not breed well- The sparrows have disappeared completely from the cities at least four years ago in Britain, as mobile phones grew in popularity. Third generation (3G) mobile phones were introduced in 2003, and there were over 65 million users in the UK by the end of 2005, more phones than people [1]. Did mobile phone transmitters cause the sparrows to disappear [2]? Scientists at the Research Institute for Nature and Forests in Brussels, Belgium, have produced the first evidence that mobile phone base stations are affecting the reproductive behaviour of wild sparrows [3]. This finding comes as mobile phones are held suspect in the massive collapse of bee colonies all over the United States and Europe. CLIP Birds and bees are hit by phone waves (29 April 2007) http://environment.independent.co.uk/article2494224.ece First it was bees. Now it is birds and other insects, say reports describing how they are being thrown off-course by "electrosmog". Some even claim that entire migrating flocks can find themselves off- course when faced with mobile phone masts or pylons.Tory councillor Debi Jones from Hightown, Southport, said: "It seems strange that these stories are only now coming out and appear to coincide with the proliferation of mobile phone masts." CLIP
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