Subject: Petition article concerning cellphone radiation - what
does all this electromagnetic hash mean to us? and, how come?
Good morning, Ms. Maura Forrest,
You may be interested to know that what is now known as
Safety Code 6 is a transfer from Industry Canada of
technical guidelines developed in the 1970s to ensure that
telephone and telecommunication microwave transceiver tower
installations (Bell, CNCP
Telecommunications, and like utilities) would be
so positioned as not to interfere with each other in their
optical line of sight. We still see some of these links on
towers as white drum-like. Before satellite services, these
units were the core of Canada's coast-to-coast-to-cast
telecommunications, including Canadian Press,
CBC and CTV - as well as
for high quality telephone system. The purpose of these
guidelines was only for assuring optimal signal conditions,
in all weather conditions, over long distances apart the
towers; there was no purpose associated with health, other
that no structure - including human and flora would hinder
the line of sight of these transcontinental beams.
For administrative reasons, these guidelines were taken
over by "Health" Canada (then with another nomenclature) as
also applying for the growing number of federal workers
exposed to microwaves: military personnel, security
services, medical services, field operation staff, those
exposed to microwave ovens, walkie-talkies, radio and TV
station facilities, banking and computer system, etc.. By
chance, the field intensities adopted from Industry Canada
were associated with thermal effect (basically, cooking,
with certain durations). This guideline
also presumes healthy, athletic Caucasian male of typical
height and weight in Canada (such as soldier, firefighter,
athlete) in their prime age - and the time it
would take such an individual to increase their whole body
temperature by 1 degree Celsius
within 6 minutes. As you know,
federal employees, at work, do not include infants,
children, pregnant women, the sick, and the elderly, who, as
you know make up an important proportion of the population.
Also note that most Canadians are exposed for more than 6
minutes at a time to microwave emissions. Microwaves, to a
lesser degree that radioactivity and X-rays, have
cumulative absorption effects, statistically over a
lifetime. So, even small density effects accumulate
over time, resulting in symptoms after some duration, rather
than immediate changes such as blood pressure and
temperature gradients.
Also, when both the Industry Canada and
Health Canada issued their guidelines,
there were only a few hundred transceiver towers in all of
Canada, less than a 1,000 Radio and TV transmitters, and
several dozen radar sites. Now we are immersed in a maze of
electromagnetic hash from multi-directions from thousands of
towers, hundred of thousands of devices associated with
wireless transmitters using competitive links by private
companies, tens of millions of microwave devices used at
distances close to our bodies and sensitive organs such as
eyes, brains, reproductive organs, hearts, for which the
guidelines have not adjusted for the cumulative (both in
duration and in emitting and directional sources), multiple
frequency bands, and their superimposition (in that
modulation on a frequency can augment into pulses of higher
power density, by about 10 times in their absorption by
living bodies), nor sometimes critical humidity conditions,
which in their turn can augment power density beyond the
federal guidelines but about 4 to 10 times conditions
otherwise monitored in "lab conditions at room temperature".
The thermal effects are
known since the WWII days. They number 8, and include
induction of ionic currents, temperature, dipole induction,
molecular agitation and friction (which is the effect that
carbonises in microwave ovens).
The non-thermal effects are
much more numerous and biologically significant. Health
Canada has admitted in Court testimony that
their Safety Code 6, and their
scope does not regard non-thermal effects at all.
However, non-thermal effects have been scrupulously examined
for more than 10 years by the European Union,
through their Council, after parliamentary committee
research - as well as observed by tens of thousands of
medical practivioners in dozens of countries from their
diagnosis of their patients). The European guidelines, since
2011 have resolved into a exposure limit of 0.1
microwatt/cm2, contrary to Safety Code 6
600.0 to 1,000 microwatt/square centimeter.
Note that background exposure levels for the full
spectrum in Toronto region's urban area roads and
sidewalks range from about 0.05 minimum to a general 4.0 -
10.0 microwatt/cm2, and, along the
Gardiner
Expressway, between Spadina and Sherbourne, up to
40,000 microwatt/cm2, which includes emissions from compact
lights, transceivers, cellphones in cars and pedestrians and
the CN tower transmitters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q70WfHArUIY. Only as recently as
2000, the microwave and radio-frequency emissions in
Toronto were 0.001 to 0.003 microwatt/cm2.
The non-thermal effects come
in the manner of 3 wave effects and 18 non-wave effects.
They include demodulation of tissue, cells, change in the
potential of cells, induction of electric currents, tendency
for change of temperature (at a slower rate), orientation of
living cells, piezo-electric effects and magnetostrictive
effects (significant for blood), chemical effects, including
rate of reactions, changes in the lymphatic, blood and
biosolution flow in vessels, resonance with geomagnetic as
well as bio magnetic fields (such as in blood magnetite) and
interaction with ferromagnetic materials, including medical
implants. This is discussed in detail in the attached National
Research Council document (see the last chart at
the end of the research study), that was commissioned by Cabinet
in the 1970s before the takeover of Safety Code
6 from Industry Canada's
technical guideline.
As you may observe, Canadians, the greatest users of
wireless technology worldwide, are being exposed
continuously to new emitters and with the 5G
("fifth generation") Internet-of-Things (rather
than humans)
slated for 2020, they will be exposed to refrigerator
sized emitters every 100 meters or so on sidewalks to
accommodate a further ten-fold increase in data (and thus at
least analogous higher pulsed density to be absorbed by
human bodies) to permit self-driving vehicles, which in
their turn will also transmit fields in many directions.
According to experts, the signal density per cubic meter
will be so elevated that it may become impossible for all
the devices in the Internet-of-Things to operate properly
for failure to receive/transmit critical data info.
For such conditions there are not enough studies
available; in fact the core engineering fundamentals for 5G
are not yet fully designed nor tested, as yet. We will
appreciate the full extent of impact on society only after
exposure, and sometime in the future. There is considerable
pressure from investment circles to speed everything up,
while ensuring no responsibility for the general public for
individuals' well being.
It is hoped that you may appreciate this information. We
were asked by our founder, Senator Chesley W.
Carter, scientist and chair of the Standing
Committee on Health as well as another Senate committee of
Science to have our interdisciplinary, independent
international collaborative network of advanced scientific
thinking to continuously monitor and review electromagnetic
field issues, which even in the 1970s were considered to be
among the most important concerns on earth.
Informant: Andrew Michrowski