Friday, February 18, 2011

Sun flare may damage electrical grids on Earth / Solar flare and health impact / Increased Risk of Brain Cancer / Urge Precautions / Mobile radiation is dangerous / One More Thing

 
W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News 

18 February 2011

 
 
Sun releases X-flare: Powerful explosion may damage electrical grids on Earth

Daily Mail
The intense burst of electromagnetic radiation above a 60000mile-wide dark sunspot momentarily overwhelmed pixels in SDO's detectors, causing the bright vertical blemish. The X-class flare was also accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME),
 
 
 
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Sun unleashes huge solar flare towards Earth

 
 
William
 
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From: Denis Henshaw <D.L.Henshaw@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Subject: Solar flare and health impact

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First see link below re the solar flare that is happening NOW, and will go on for a day or two

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12493980

So, it will disrupt electricity supplies etc but needless to say, no mention of health

Well, there is a wealth of data on health disruption (see attached documents).

So, unfortunately we have a natural experiment.

Do be on the look-out for factors known to be associated with solar flares (producing magnetic field pulses around 100 nanotesla, although I guess this is a biggy and up to 500 nT (0.5 microtesla). We are talking about depressive symptoms, heart beat irregularity, loss of sleep etc

Professor Denis Henshaw

University of Bristol, UK

(Sarah)

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Cordless phones and Cell Phones Increase Risk of Brain Cancer
 
 

Iris


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San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

In fact, they agree with others-such as the authors of the report Cell Phones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone, issued in 2009 by the International EMF Collaborative-that the overall direction of ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/17/prweb8144389.DTL

 
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MorungExpress
Neha Kumar, who has been studying the biological effects of mobile phone towers, said, "All these women don't have any family history of cancer. ...
 
 
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Bob Sirott's One More Thing About Cellphones

See the news video comments about cell phones -
 
 
 
 
 

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