[NatureNS] more on Mobile Phones and Vanishing Birds and BEES as well !!

Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:40:05 -0300
From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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Forgive me if I have already sent this to you all.  Jim
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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:

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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

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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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