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  • From: SArjuna@aol.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] bee colony collapse disorder
  • Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:22:08 EDT

Matthew said:
There are also alternative views and opinions, as there should be in any
worthwhile debate, and some dubious information and reporting -- blaming
it all on cell phones being one example.

Dr. George Carlo has written the following:

• The colony collapse disorder has occurred concurrently on four
continents within a very short time frame.  If the reason was biological or
chemical, there would be a pattern of epidemic spread....we would be able to
trace
the spread  of bee disappearance or Colony Collapse Disorder from a source
similar to the spread of SARS a few years ago.  That is not the case.  The
condition has hit each continent at roughly the same time.  That would mean
the
cause has to have hit the continents at the same time as well.  Mobile phones
meet that criterion.
• None of the biological or chemical hypotheses actually have a
mechanistic explanation that is plausible.  The science for the biological
and
chemical alternatives is far thinner than the science supporting the EMR
connection.  A case of the pot calling the kettle black.
• The disruption of intercellular communication hypothesis that we
now know effects cell membranes in most species is biologically
plausible...and no other theory has that support.
• The basis for a biological mechanism, coupled with the saturation
in information carrying radio waves we have globally in the past 14 months,
provides the underpinning.  In 2004, we had the first billion cell phone
users
globally, the accumulation over 20 years; by mid 2006, we had the second
billion; today we have surpassed three billion. That suggests we are near a
saturation point of these waves in the ambient environment.  The bees are
likely the
harbinger or the proverbial 'canaries in the coal mine'.
• Taken together, EMR is the only explanation that makes sense
regarding the disappearing bees:  the timing is correct -- the problem has
occurred primarily within the past two years....when we have nearly tripled
the
background level of information carrying radio waves;  the pattern is global
so
that suggests a cause that is globally present;  there is at least
one peer-reviewed study that supports it, and there is a mechanism documented
that lends
biological plausibility. 


In our view, this is a serious 'red flag' of risk that should be heeded. 
This is yet another example of mobile phone industry orchestration aimed at
distracting the public from data that can save lives. 


___________________
Dr. George L. Carlo
Science and Public Policy Institute
1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW -- 7th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20004
www.sppionline.org

202-756-7744







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