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Oh No! Coconut Tree Cell Phone Tower. Olivier was disgusted that they were making cell phone towers that look like coconut trees. He wants to know where the towers are so that they do not sneak up on people. In Tahiti East of Papeete: photo by Ray Tomes, 5 October 2009
animation silence of the exurban commuter night
quietly behind a stageprop gated wall
rain falls softly on the cell phone tower trees
Cell Phone Tower, Beaverton, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 28 November 2011
Cell phone tree, Contra Costa County, California: photo by pointnshoot, 2 July 2010
Cell phone trees: photo by pointnshoot, 29 July 2013
Cell phone tree, Sierra Vista, Arizona: photo by pointnshoot, 9 May 2011
Unnatural Palm in Las Vegas. Washingtpn Avenue overpass and 95: photo by pointnshoot, 5 May 2009
Cell phone pine tree in Las Vegas. Durango and Centennial Parkway: photo by pointnshoot, 5 May 2009
Cell phone antenna tree, Hesperian Boulevard: photo by pointnshoot, 20 January 2009
Cell phone tower on private property in Fremont, California: photo by pointnshoot, 4 October 2007
Cell phone antennas in Alamo, California. A phony tree betwen two dead trees. Stone Valley Road: photo by pointnshoot, 10 July 2007
Cell tower on 680 in Pleasanton: photo by pointnshoot, 15 July 2007
Cell phone palm tree. Cell phone antenna tower in Oakland: photo by pointnshoot, 15 December 2007
Cell tower "tree".: photo by pointnshoot, 29 July 2007
Cell phone antennas in hiding. Fish Ranch Road, just outside the Caldecott Tunnel: photo by pointnshoot, 27 June 2006
Cell phone tree, Ygnacio Valley Road, Concord, California: photo by pointnshoot, 30 June 2008
Two cell phone tower trees: photo by pointnshoot, 13 March 30 June 2009
Cell tree. A.T. and T. Mobility, Dublin, California: photo by pointnshoot, 10 January 2013
Main Street by the Los Angeles River, Los Angeles, California. The "tree" is actually a mobile phone antenna: photo by fliegender, 4 November 2004
Cell Tower Disguised as Palm Tree, Las Vegas: photo by Jon Miller, 16 February 2007
Cell Tower. There it is folks. Vertical Gold, Vermont Tree...: photo by Amy Boemig, 20 August 2008
Hidden reception. A fake-tree cell tower at the Manhattan Beach Target: photo by Christian Newton, 19 November 2006
Cell phone tower disguised to look like pine tree. Sunset Hill cemetery, Valdosta, Georgia: photo by tom spinker, 10 March 2013
Cell Tree Storm, Keystone, Colorado: photo by Richard Johnson (tab2space), 24 February 2010
With 5.9 billion reported users, mobile phones constitute a new, ubiquitous and rapidly growing exposure worldwide. Mobile phones are two-way microwave radios that also emit low levels of electromagnetic radiation. Inconsistent results have been published on potential risks of brain tumors tied with mobile phone use as a result of important methodological differences in study design and statistical power. Some studies have examined mobile phone users for periods of time that are too short to detect an increased risk of brain cancer, while others have misclassified exposures by placing those with exposures to microwave radiation from cordless phones in the control group, or failing to attribute such exposures in the cases. In 2011, the World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) advised that electromagnetic radiation from mobile phone and other wireless devices constitutes a “possible human carcinogen”. Recent analyses not considered in the IARC review that take into account these methodological shortcomings from a number of authors find that brain tumor risk is significantly elevated for those who have used mobile phones for at least a decade. Studies carried out in Sweden indicate that those who begin using either cordless or mobile phones regularly before age 20 have greater than a fourfold increased risk of ipsilateral glioma. Given that treatment for a single case of brain cancer can cost between $100,000 for radiation therapy alone and up to $1 million depending on drug costs, resources to address this illness are already in short supply and not universally available in either developing or developed countries. Significant additional shortages in oncology services are expected at the current growth of cancer. No other environmental carcinogen has produced evidence of an increased risk in just one decade. Empirical data have shown a difference in the dielectric properties of tissues as a function of age, mostly due to the higher water content in children's tissues. High resolution computerized models based on human imaging data suggest that children are indeed more susceptible to the effects of EMF exposure at microwave frequencies. If the increased brain cancer risk found in young users in these recent studies does apply at the global level, the gap between supply and demand for oncology services will continue to widen. Many nations, phone manufacturers, and expert groups, advise prevention in light of these concerns by taking the simple precaution of “distance” to minimize exposures to the brain and body. We note than brain cancer is the proverbial “tip of the iceberg”; the rest of the body is also showing effects other than cancers.
Swedish review strengthens grounds for concluding that radiation from cellular and cordless phones is a probable human carcinogen: Abstract of a study by Devra Lee Davis, Santosh Kesari, Colin L. Soskolne, Anthony B. Miller and Yael Stein, in Pathophysiology, Vol. 20, Issue 2, April 2013
Cell Phone Tower Tree, I-88, upstate New York. One of my favorites. This one is a particularly awesome failure: photo by mapleboughs, 4 June 2011