Are we killing the trees?

We are, according to this article.

I hate to think that these very old oak trees on my land (some older than radio) are dying because of my wi-fi.

Then again, the drought may have something to do with it. Yeah, I think that's probably it.

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The study, conducted by Wageningen University, investigated findings that trees in areas with high Wi-Fi activity (urban areas, especially) were suffering from symptoms that couldn't be tied to typical bacterial or viral causes. The symptoms included bleeding (!), fissures in the bark, the death of parts of leaves, and abnormal growth.

Boy, if that isn't bullshit science I don't know what is.

You're obviously more well versed in botany than I am. I don't have enough education in the field to make such a judgement on the basis of one short article.

Wi-if signals cannot cause radiation sickness.

Ever.

At. All.

They are not talking about radiation sickness of the type caused by non-ionizing radiation. They are talking about damage caused by RF radiation, which is a real thing. Whether or not RF radiation from wif-fi signals can damage trees is the point of the article. In the one experiment they conducted, the results indicated that it might. The experiment indicates that further study Should. Be. Done.

BS.  The "evidence" they cited was laughable.

If you know anything about botany you know low power RF radiation is harmless to living things.  If it weren't we'd all be in big big trouble.

_Howard wrote:

Then again, the drought may have something to do with it. Yeah, I think that's probably it.

That drought that doesn't exist and the climate change hoax are piling up some numbers.

100 Million Goddamn Trees Are Dead

Right now, the whackers are down the road at a neighbor's house, taking out some dead trees. This is the second time that neighbor has had to have dead or dying trees removed. I may be in that position myself soon. I have some terribly distressed oaks.

And sometimes they do die of old age.

One of the oldest, biggest pines in the Pacific Northwest is dead

_Howard wrote:

(...)I have some terribly distressed oaks.

Plant some new ones, Howard. Best feeling in the world.

richard09 wrote:

And sometimes they do die of old age.

One of the oldest, biggest pines in the Pacific Northwest is dead

Wow. What Pacific Northwesterner doesn't know how to spell "Yakima"?

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The Big Tree wasn’t the biggest known ponderosa alive on Earth, but it might have been the tallest. A ponderosa on the Yakama Indian Reservation, which also recently died, was shorter but considerably stouter and thus the biggest ponderosa in Washington state.

kilo wrote:

Plant some new ones, Howard.  Best feeling in the world.

That may be, but I couldn't replace the big oak, which is from 150-200 years old.

NoCoPilot wrote:

What Pacific Northwesterner doesn't know how to spell "Yakima"?

I'm not a Pacific Northwesterner and I knew how to spell Yakima before I knew there was a city by that name. I didn't find that out until we moved there in 1956.

_Howard wrote:

That may be, but I couldn't replace the big oak, which is from 150-200 years old.

All the trees I plant these days are for posterity.

Hell, these days when I eat lunch it's for posterity.