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January 17 2008
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Why Are the Birds Disappearing?
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Tens of millions of the most common birds in North America have disappeared, and their absence is signaling a silent alarm bell about the state of our ecosystem. According to a report by the National Audubon Society, the numbers of some species of birds have plummeted by 60 percent to 80 percent. The video above explains some of the dramatic environmental disruptions that are contributing to the decimation of the bird population, and what their disappearance means to the future of our planet.
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 | Dr. Mercola's Comments: | Like the tragedy of the disappearing honeybees, the disappearance of millions and millions of birds means that something has gone terribly wrong in our environment.
There are many likely contributing factors for this observation, everything from pesticides to urban sprawl and pollution, but there is an extremely pervasive, silent killer out there that hardly anyone is mentioning: Information-carrying radio waves.
These radio waves are coming from your cell phones and other wireless technologies, and they have increased exponentially in the past three or four years alone.
It’s already known that birds living near mobile phone base stations do not breed well. It’s also known that exposure to these frequencies causes disorientation in migratory birds.
Now, at the end of 2007 there were 4 billion cell phones on the planet. What this means is that even if you are one of the few who decides not to use a cell phone, you are being exposed to information-carrying radio waves at unprecedented levels, and so are all of the birds, bugs and wildlife that live among us.
According to Dr. George Carlo, who is clearly the world’s leading expert on cell phone safety, “The background level of information-carrying radio waves has now reached saturation point.”
In other words, they’re everywhere.
And when we talk about these radio waves you have to understand that there is no safe level of exposure. This is completely different even from electromagnetic fields (EMFs), which are well-known to cause brain cancer, tumor growth, and maybe even Alzheimer’s disease.
But according to Dr. Carlo, we have built up certain defenses against EMFs, which are actually two parts: the magnetic field and the electric field. We have been exposed to a magnetic influence simply because of gravity, while lightning and other natural sources have exposed us to some level of electric fields.
As a result, we can be exposed to low levels of EMFs and perhaps not be affected. But this is not so with radio frequencies (RF) and information-carrying radio waves.
“We do not have any controls that make the information-carrying radio wave manageable from a public health point of view,” says Dr. Carlo.
And this is a major red flag. According to Dr. Carlo:
“Here is why we have a problem … Before 1930, almost none of this exposure existed and up until about the 1980s, most of the exposure that had to do with information-carrying radio waves … only occurred high in the sky.
Like your television, your radio, the signal would go from a big antenna on top of the mountain to the antenna on top of your house and then it would be hardwired back down into your television for example. Information-carrying radio waves were not at the street, but this wonderful invention called the cell phone brought the information-carrying radio waves to the street.”
The huge explosion in cell phone use and their corresponding information-carrying radio waves is causing the following problems:
- Damaging cell membranes
- Decreasing intracellular communication by disrupting microtubular connections that allow biophotons to communicate between cells
- Increasing deposits of heavy metals into your cells, which increases intracelluar production of free radicals and can radically decrease cellular production of energy thus making you incredibly fatigued
First the Honeybees, Now the Birds, Next … Humans?
It would be naïve to assume that the bees and the birds are the only living creatures being impacted here. Perhaps because they are smaller, or more sensitive to the radio waves and changes in frequencies, they are being tragically impacted right now.
But who, or what, will be next?
The only real solution to this major problem is to move our culture away from wireless and back to wires.
Is this going to happen? No way. The telecommunication industry has even more power than the pharmaceutical industry, and there is no way they are going to let that happen.
Well, I took some steps in my own life and when I moved I had my new home completely renovated with wired CAT-5 cables -- so I have no wireless connections at all.
For you and your family, I would suggest keeping cell phone use to a bare minimum and using a speakerphone feature when you do use it. If you must keep your conversation more private, a NON-BlueTooth headset can be used.
And please, whatever you do, do not allow your children to use cell phones, as their skulls are far less dense than yours, and their brains are far more susceptible to damage from information-carrying radio waves.
I believe that one day it will be shown that using cell phones is far more dangerous than smoking cigarettes ever was, and I will reveal the details of why this is so in my next book, coming in 2009. |
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Katie_Beth |
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Though this may be true, my cell phone would come in handy if ever my car happened to break down. It's a dangerous world out there for a woman alone on the side of the road at night. Perhaps we should just limit the use of a cell phone for emergencies, and if we must, use the text messaging feature for less important reasons.
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Thank you, Beyond Organic. I don't understand why my comment would garner negative votes either. It's a valid point. No, a cell phone does not protect someone from an attacker per se, but what I was saying that if my car broke down, I would be able to call for legitimate help myself instead of flagging down a perfect stranger. And I do not own a gun as of yet because I have not got around to learning how to use one, and only if you know how to use one should you own one (it's the responsible thing to do).
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I also feel safer having my cell phone on me Katie. Mace, an axe and a gun would be a good addition as well. Although my kids may kill each other or me first .
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LOL!!! Thanks Jonny, your comment made me laugh!
(I don't know who thumbed Katie Beth down, but I'm going to thumb her up because I don't think her comment deserves negatives! The whole point system here is rather ridiculous period, especially since people thumb people down for no legitimate reasons much of the time and it's all not very fair if you ask me and only makes people who care feel bad.)
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I was kidding Jonny..... but since you mentioned it, I do believe guns can be very dangerous around kids. I have two very young and wild boys, and I have no doubt that if a loaded gun got into one of their hands, it is very possible someone could get killed. By the way, we know a couple who's son is now dead today from his daddy's weapon. He was 7. &nbs p;
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Paul Doyon |
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Probe looks at effect of radiation on vital bugs
Sunday Independent, Johannesburg
Author: Eleanor Momberg
Date: 22 July 2007
Radiation from cellphones, television sets, radios and other
electronic gadgets could be destroying insect populations.
This is one of the claims being investigated by researchers trying to
determine why insect numbers appear to be dropping.
Other causes appear to be increased urbanisation, uni-agricultural
practices and a loss of natural habitat.
The research project, being undertaken by environmental expert Peter
Hawkes and insect ecologist Dr Max Clark, was initiated by Strilli
Oppenheimer three years ago.
The first such research to be done in South Africa, it comes soon
after international researchers suspected that bee populations in the
United States and Europe were declining because of increased
cellphone radiation.
It was through her keen interest in conservation that Oppenheimer
started noticing that there appeared to be fewer insects around now
than there were 20 years ago.
She had noticed this both in her garden at Brenthurst in Johannesburg
and at Ezemvelo to the east of Gauteng.
"I started asking these questions 10 years ago when a 95 percent
decrease in the sparrow population occurred in London, which appeared
parallel with the massive growth in the usage of cellphones. It is
possible this could be a result of a decrease in insects and,
therefore, there not being enough insects [for the birds] to feed
their young," said Oppenheimer.
Research done by the University of Pretoria has shown that insects
are repulsed by electromagnetic frequencies on a micro scale.
It was for these reasons that Oppenheimer commissioned the research.
Duncan MacFadyen, the research and conservation manager at E
Oppenheimer and Son, pointed out that insects were the gardeners in
many ecosystems.
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They are relied on as the pollinators of many plant species, for
controlling vegetation growth, for keeping so-called pest numbers in
check and for turning over the soil and doing many other tasks
associated with gardening.
"It is important that we understand how human activities are
impacting on insects in our ecosystems," said MacFadyen. More than R1
million has already been spent on the research, which is set to
continue for several years.
Hawkes and Clark said they selected 24 sites across Gauteng, varying
from urban gardens and natural grasslands to crop farms.
They were looking at urban development, human interference, pollution
levels, the sizes of undisturbed and disturbed habitats and the
intensity of radiation.
Undisturbed grasslands, they said, were difficult to find because of
increased urban sprawl and extensive agricultural use.
While their research results are due out only later this year,
preliminary results indicate that TVs, cellphones, radios, satellite
receivers, computers, laptops, cellphone masts, GPS systems and other
gadgets could be the main contributors to high levels of radiation in
urban areas.
Indications are that, as with the findings overseas in bee research,
electromagnetic radiation could be contributing to subtle changes in
the behaviour of insects, including altering their foraging and
mating patterns.
Clark said the scientists were focusing largely on assessing
indicator groups of insects such as ants, for their role in promoting
biodiversity, ground beetles, bees as pollinators and leaf hoppers.
They have caught more than a million bugs either by hand or in
pitfall traps, leaf litter samples, Malaise traps and sweep nets as
part of their research.
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At seven of the rural sites, particularly at Ezemvelo, there was
almost no radiation. Melville Koppies on the other hand has
registered one of the densest radiation readings in an urban area.
The researchers said they would probably find that flightless
carnivorous beetles were more seriously affected by radiation and
urbanisation than their fruit-eating flying beetle cousins.
In rural areas, low vegetation diversity due to mono-agricultural
projects, ploughing and overgrazing were contributing to the demise
of insects. If insects disappeared, they emphasised, so would insect-
eating birds, moles and many other animal species.
"Results obtained so far show that urbanisation is having a major
effect on insect biodiversity," said Clark.
Gauteng city gardens were often more like forests than the highveld
grasslands they had replaced and many of the grassland insects had
been displaced.
McFadyen said the few grassland areas that were conserved - such as
the Melville Koppies in Johannesburg, Faerie Glen Nature Reserve and
the botanical gardens in Tshwane - still provided an important refuge
for some of the grassland species.
MacFadyen said that, should the final results of the study find that
cellphone-mast emissions affected insects at a landscape level, the
platform for more intensive studies would be created.
These studies would focus on confirming the results of the field
study and determining the nature of the effect on insects.
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Re: Tens of million birds disappearing across North America
Posted by: karlmuller30
Wed Jan 2, 2008 5:56 am (PST)
The issue with birds is very serious. A couple of years ago the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds reported that sparrow populations
in London had dropped by 70 percent in the last decade. They had no
real explanation, and did not mention microwaves, but that decade of
course saw an explosion of cellphone towers across the landscape. I
just checked, they're reporting now that dozen of bird species are
facing extinction, again no clue as to why:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-178942
Indian research a while back showed that small birds were affected by
microwaves. I have told many people to look, and note that they'll
never see a small bird perched on a cellphone mast, no matter how
much the operators disguise it to look like a tree.
Then about four years ago, I saw two pigeons sitting in a "tree" mast
(in a school playground). I thought, oh, well, there goes my theory.
Then I saw that there was a van parked there, and the door to the
transmitter room was open. It took me a while to find out whose mast
it was (my old friends Vodacom -- this was the first time I actually
dealt with them directly) and I asked them to confirm that the mast
was in fact turned off at the time I saw the birds. It took a couple
of weeks for them to get back to me. They confirmed that maintenance
was being conducted at the time, but said the transmitter should have
been left on, it was a "disciplinable" offence for the workers to
turn it off. I said, oh, well, then I think you can discipline your
worker, because I'm certain the mast was off. I had asked the guy if
he had ever seen small birds on a mast, and when I spoke to him
again, two weeks later, he said, without me even asking, "And you
know, since you mentioned it, I've been looking, and you
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know, since you mentioned it, I've been looking, and you're right, I
don't see birds sitting on masts."
I've actually given this as a possible project to schoolkids, seeing
that half the schools in Johannesburg seem to have cellphone masts in
their playgrounds -- just to look and see where the birds sit -- but
I don't know if any of them took it up.
I also told the Vodacom guy -- interesting that you have
to "discipline" your microwave workers who turn off the transmitter
while they're doing maintenance, do they prefer to have the
transmitter off? He wouldn't answer me. I'll post some more on this
sometime, we need to access microwave workers, these guys are in the front line, and they know the score. We've heard private horror
stories. Making a dying to make a living.
But there was some research done here, commissioned by the
Oppenheimers, SA's wealthiest family, who noticed that the birdlife
in their famous gardens in Johannesburg was diminishing. I read a
report where the lead researcher said they were finding insect
communication patterns were being interfered with by cellphone
radiation, but I can't find that now, for some reason. Below is the
only report I can find on this research. Obviously if the insects
are disappearing, birdlife will be affected.
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It's been pointed out that with centimetre wavelengths, microwaves
will resonate with the brain cavities of small birds, this is why
they are so affected.
At my agricultural publication, I used to edit a column on pigeon
racing (very entertaining copy -- South Africa hosts the world's
biggest pigeon race, the Sun City Million Dollar, so we are very big
in this game). Pigeon fanciers all over the world are reporting more
and more lost birds, and they are blaming cellphone masts. I heard a
story from a friend in the US that they were pigeon-racing champions
until a cellphone mast was erected near their house, then their birds
got totally disoriented and vanished, and they gave up the hobby.
Be very glad whenever you see sparrows or other small birds in your
vicinity. They are truly the "canaries" of the microwave era.
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Paul Doyon |
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Dear Stewart,
What you guys call "Jumping to Conclusions," I would rather call
"Making Logical Inferences."
Actually, I don't see the problem being with "Intuition" per se but
rather with people who hide behind a "tattered veil of
quasi-scientific mumbo-jumbo" - a quasi-scientific veil held up only
by the dangling threads of (1) greed, (2) ignorance, (3) lack of
compassion for other human beings and life on this planet, and (4)
denial.
In truth, intuitions are really based on thousands - if not millions -
if not billions - of experiences in the world where we are constantly
implicitly making logical inferences - given one example, that is how
we indeed learn to speak our highly complex native languages
perfectly, my dear friend.
For example, when a non-native speaker (NNS) makes a statement like "I
looked for my dog 'before' the building," instead of the correct "in
front of the building," we instantly, intuitively, and implicitly know
that this twist of the tongue is a rather incorrect form - while most
of us cannot explicitly give the reason why this is indeed so. Most of
us will usually leave that up to our more astute linguists to figure
out.
As someone who is supposed to be rather versed on the subject, I am
quite surprised that you have never seen the following study
connecting the disappearance of house sparrows with the increase in
ambient microwave radiation:
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