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PLEASE help spread alert, the worlds' bees are dying! Without bees, we can NOT survive. Please post this on as many forums as you can. news.independent.co.uk/enviro...968.ece CELL PHONE RADIATION MAY BE KILLING BEES Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious world wide '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-ke |
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announced 23 hives are abbonded 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. 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, w |
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Did you hear about this on Real time with Bill Maher? |
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If i die when the bees die, ill consider my life as a success. |
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NOT THE WORD BEES?!?!?!§ |
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THE WORD'S BEE'S, MAN |
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DAMN? |
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wood beez? |
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hey rockenjohnny, i always thought you were a funny guy, but this time.. you've let me down. |
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wow, that makes two people who like my jokes :) |
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bee's mean'z hein'z |
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God is punishing the don't-bees and rewarding the do-bees. |
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wood beez is a scritti politti song isn't it |
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i don't believe this if mobile phones don't have a proven effect on the brains i sure as heck am not going to believe it's effect on bees |
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i read it "the world bee's are djing" :S |
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It's kind of a strange tale; that electromagnetic radiation from cell phones (for instance, a digital encoding of some teen saying "wazzzzuuuppp") is sending some sort of suicide message to the bees, by sheer luck. |
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I think we can live without bees. I mean, they sting you and stuff. |
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actually bees are the source of 95% of the world honey which is used to keep the giant alpacas that rotate the earth both well fed and greased up. without the bees the world would stop rotating and we'd all float off into space. after about 100 years the human race would die out because although we could eat space jam we could not procreate as we would be millions of miles away from each other. |
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GOD!!!!!!1!!!111!!!!! |
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I know you two are just being funny, but according to the article (and Albert Einstein, as well), bees are much more important than people realize. |
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12 21 2012 |
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i dont really eat that much honey |
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I have the bee's knees. I will return them all - the guilt is killing me....... |
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It's really bizarre reading this, cause lately I've been seeing alot of bees on the ground. I thought it had to do with global warming or something. |
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OH MY SHIT! OH MY FUCKING SHIT! |
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It's really bizarre reading this, cause lately I've been seeing alot of bees with human faces, laughing at me. I thought it had to do with global warming or something. |
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Who said these religious kooks that go and live on comunes eating brown grass were fucked up and of no use to anyone apart from, maybe, bees? |
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Its penises |
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they're not dieing they're just vanishing |
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i'm actually interested in seeing how the world ends, that way i can tell everyone i told you so. |
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Ok, I'll tell my fellow bees |
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no wonder! look at their penis'... |
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it's the phone thing that ticks me off. they'll just that first as a reason for everything bad until it comes they are right some time (maybe brain warming is good for you) |
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until it comes out right some time i meant, though that might be incorrect as well |
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ftw |
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"they'll just that first as a reason for everything bad" |
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this topic has to be deleted now |
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delete 'em all i say |
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"i read it "the world bee's are djing" :S" *THIS* is the best reply to any doomsday farse! |
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funny how mobile phones use the same frequency range as TV signals (500-2000Mhz) and yet it's only mobile phone signals that kill bees. |
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are they dead yet? |
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i'm sure bee's have killed people by causing them to go into anaphylactic reaction. so i guess i dont care about the bee's or the ecological system in general. |
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Or the proper usage of apostrophes. |
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that one could have done without posting |
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i was being silly, and ofcoarse i care, but do you think people are actually going to stop using their cell phones based on a study thats been posted over the internet? |
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to be honest i think the whole cell phone thing is a bit outrageous. its one of those internet bandwagons as well, ive seen it posted on peoples livejournals and myspaces everywhere, which makes it all the less believable :) |
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those people probably believe it too thats the sad part. what i should do is record a video of me putting a cellphone next to a bee and see if it wants to talk to my grandma. then i'm going to put it on my youtube. hopefully i wont get stung. |
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this is the same pathetic paranoia as those anti-mobile phone mast people. no-one ever complains if they live next to a radio broadcaster, do they? radiowaves and microwaves are all around us anyway without the presence of mobile phones. the people who think phone masts cause cancer are retards. visible light is more likely to cause cancer then radiowaves or microwaves. i love the way they use the word "radiation" as such a dirty buzzword, as if radiation is an intrinsically evil thing. |
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