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Parents blame elementary school’s cell tower after 4th student gets cancer

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Parents blame elementary school’s cell tower after 4th student gets cancer — RT USA News

California parents are demanding an elementary school remove their on-campus cell tower after four students and three teachers were diagnosed with cancer in just three years.

Some students at the Weston Elementary School in Ripon, San Joaquin County, California have been pulled from attending the school over the spike in cancer cases, reports the Sacramento Bee.
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The link between cellular microwave radiation & cancer has been either known or has been discussed for years.
 
JacksinPA said:
Parents blame elementary school’s cell tower after 4th student gets cancer — RT USA News

California parents are demanding an elementary school remove their on-campus cell tower after four students and three teachers were diagnosed with cancer in just three years.

Some students at the Weston Elementary School in Ripon, San Joaquin County, California have been pulled from attending the school over the spike in cancer cases, reports the Sacramento Bee.
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The link between cellular microwave radiation & cancer has been either known or has been discussed for years.
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That link has never been credibly established, to my knowledge, but it certainly seems there's really something wrong there.

That said, it's the San Joaquin Valley, the most heavily air-polluted place in the nation.
 
Phys251 said:
Proof?
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Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian

Here's a photo I took from 7 years ago, from atop Moro Rock at the south end of Sequoia Nat'l Park. Looking west and south. It was the worst I'd ever seen in the valley as far as air pollution that day, coming up, and what appears to be valley fog in this shot was actually air pollution hovering over the valley and coming east up the canyons towards the rock.

Moro.jpg
 
Tanngrisnir said:
Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian

Here's a photo I took from 7 years ago, from atop Moro Rock at the south end of Sequoia Nat'l Park. Looking west and south. It was the worst I'd ever seen in the valley as far as air pollution that day, coming up, and what appears to be valley fog in this shot was actually air pollution hovering over the valley and coming east up the canyons towards the rock.
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A photo? That's your comeback? I could do a Google image search and come up with far more dire examples. Try again, this time with data.
 
Phys251 said:
A photo? That's your comeback? I could do a Google image search and come up with far more dire examples. Try again, this time with data.
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Oh, you must not have seen the link I posted at the very top of my post.

Silly me, I thought it would be obvious.

It's highlighted in dark blue and starts "Breathless in Bakersfield"

Here, let me help you:

Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian
Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian
Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian
Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian

And, in case you missed those:

California Farm Town Is Nation's Smoggiest
https://www.bakersfield.com/multime...ube_729171ca-7a2e-11e8-a549-b31a3432310d.html

You're super-DUPER welcome!
 
Tanngrisnir said:
Oh, you must not have seen the link I posted at the very top of my post.

Silly me, I thought it would be obvious.

It's highlighted in dark blue and starts "Breathless in Bakersfield"

Here, let me help you:

Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian
Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian
Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian
Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse? | Cities | The Guardian
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Actually I legitimately scrolled right past it. :lol: Such it is when my eyes are attracted to beautiful photos!

All the sources of pollution--some places, such as Houston, Texas, have it pretty bad too. Is geography a problem, I wonder?

After six years of extreme drought, a series of storms last year is credited with moving enough of the valley’s air to bring down the PM2.5 measurements. “The valley we live in has stagnant high-pressure systems that will sit for up to a month, even six weeks,” Frantz says. “Any time a low-pressure system comes off the Pacific, it blows out our bad air. If that would happen once a week, we would not have much of an air quality problem.”
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Phys251 said:
Actually I legitimately scrolled right past it. :lol: Such it is when my eyes are attracted to beautiful photos!

All the sources of pollution--some places, such as Houston, Texas, have it pretty bad too. Is geography a problem, I wonder?
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Ah, I see. Sorry for the snark.

Geography is a huge problem them. All that industrial pollution, factory/plant exhaust, truck/transport/tractor exhaust, fertilizer particulate, top soil, etc... all get picked up in the prevailing north to south winds and then get compressed at the southern end of the valley by two huge mountain ranges (although it happens the length of the valley as well) when it settles.

My family has a very large cattle/walnut operation around Merced, more to the north, and the conditions are terrible.
 
If cell towers caused cancer, there would be a sharp global uptick in those forms of cancer as cell phones proliferated over the last twenty years.

As far as I am aware, this has not occurred.
 
Lee Atwater - Wikipedia Atwater always had a cell phone on the side of his head & he died of brain cancer. Cause & effect?
 
JacksinPA said:
Lee Atwater - Wikipedia Atwater always had a cell phone on the side of his head & he died of brain cancer. Cause & effect?
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That is where you have to worry, continuous HAND HELD USE of a cell phone IS dangerous because you're exposing your skull to a constant feed of 0.5 to 1.0 watts of UHF radio frequency energy at point blank range.
That is why cell phone users who are on their devices all day long should be using a Bluetooth unit of some kind.
Occasional short term use is not harmful.

A typical cell tower is generally 50 to 150 feet in the air and radiates between 75 and 250 watts, but due to it being that high in the air, the amount of radio frequency energy you're exposed to is a fraction of what you're exposed to with a cell phone against your ear.

A ham or CB radio user with a powerful (amplified) mobile radio in their car will soak you with enough radio frequency energy to do THIS:

 
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