A Briefing Memo yesteryear doc Albert Manville
Albert M. Manville, II, Ph.D. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Briefing Memorandum: What We Know, Can Infer, together with Don’t Yet Know nearly Impacts from Thermal together with Non-thermal Non-ionizing Radiation to Birds together with Other Wildlife — for Public Release. July 14, 2016.
In this memo, doc Manville reviews the scientific literature that examines the impacts on wild fauna from exposure to radio frequency radiation.
He observes that although the FCC has standards to protect humans from the heating (i.e., thermal) effects of wireless radiations exposure from cellular together with broadcast towers, no standards be to protect wild fauna from thermal or non-thermal effects:
“The radiations effects on wild fauna demand to live on addressed yesteryear the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Commerce, the US of America Fish together with Wildlife Service (FWS) together with other governmental entities.”
Dr. Manville concludes amongst the next statement:
“In summary, nosotros demand to amend empathize … how to address these growing together with poorly understood radiations impacts to migratory birds, bees, bats, together with myriad other wildlife. At present, given manufacture together with means intransigence … massive amounts of coin beingness spent to forestall addressing impacts from non-thermal radiations — non dissimilar the battles over tobacco together with smoking — together with a lack of significant, dedicated together with reliable funding to advance independent champaign studies, … nosotros are left amongst few options. Currently, other than to operate on using the precautionary approach together with maintain emissions every bit depression every bit reasonably achievable, nosotros are at loggerheads inwards advancing meaningful guidelines, policies together with regulations that address non-thermal effects....”
Dr. Manville recommends that the US of America adopt the next recommendations because federally-protected wild fauna species are currently inwards danger from RFR exposure:
“We desperately demand to comport champaign query on thermal together with non-thermal radiations impacts to wild migratory birds together with other wild fauna hither inwards North America, similar to studies conducted inwards Europe….”
“Studies demand to live on designed to amend tease out together with empathize causality of thermal together with non-thermal impacts from radiations on migratory birds…. efforts demand to live on made to get down developing exposure guidelines for migratory birds together with other wild fauna …”
“To minimize deleterious radiations exposures, these guidelines should include purpose of avoidance measures such every bit those developed yesteryear the electrical utility manufacture for plane collision together with electrocution avoidance …”
“Studies demand to live on conducted on the purpose of “faux” branches (i.e., metallic arms that mimic pino or fir branches) on jail mobile telephone and/or FM towers intended to disguise the towers every bit trees, simply supply nesting together with roosting opportunities for migratory birds including Bald Eagles, which volition almost sure enough live on impacted both yesteryear thermal together with non-thermal radiations effects.”
“Agencies tasked amongst the protection, management, together with query on migratory birds together with other wild fauna … demand to railroad train radiations policies that avoid or minimize impacts to migratory birds together with other trust wild fauna species.”
“As Levitt together with Lai (2010) concluded, nosotros produce non genuinely demand to know whether RFR effects are thermal or non-thermal to laid upwardly exposure guidelines. Most scientists consider non-thermal effects every bit good established, fifty-fifty though the implications are non fully understood.”
“Given the chop-chop growing database of peer-reviewed, published scientific studies (e.g., http://www.saferemr.com, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley), it is fourth dimension that FCC considers thermal together with non-thermal effects from EMR inwards their tower permitting, together with incorporates changes into their rulemaking regarding ‘effects of communication towers on migratory birds.’”
Dr. Albert Manville II is an adjunct faculty fellow member at Johns Hopkins University. He served every bit a senior wild fauna biologist amongst the US of America Fish together with Wildlife Service from 1997 to 2014. He chaired the Communication Tower Working Group, partnering amongst the communications industry, federal together with dry ground agencies, researchers, together with non-profit organizations. He testified to a greater extent than than twoscore times earlier Congress together with other governmental bodies together with published to a greater extent than 170 papers. For to a greater extent than information, meet http://advanced.jhu.edu/about-us/faculty/albert-manville/.
Dr. Manville’s memo is available at http://bit.ly/Manvillewildlife.
Also see:
Cell Tower Radiation Affects Wildlife: Dept. of Interior Attacks FCC
Cell Tower Health Effects
Effects Of Wireless Radiations On Birds In Addition To Other Wildlife
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