Could telecommunication be a contributing factor in climate change? 5g being the one to tip it over the edge …

Professor Andrew Wood (in Nature, of all places): We believe the main biological effect of the electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones is a rise in temperature.
There are also concerns that there could be more subtle effects, such as links between long-term exposure and certain types of cancer, but while there is some evidence from epidemiological and animal studies, these remain controversial.

For “controversial” read howled down by Big (know which side-my-bread’s buttered) Science.

Prof Wood: As the frequency goes up, the depth of penetration into biological tissues goes down, so the skin and eyes, rather than the brain, become the main organs of health concern.

That’s kinda counterintuitive, but it was an in depth study. The implication is that the brain damage has already been done by the lower frequencies. Watch out for your skin & eyes.

The major hurdle is that the power levels involved in mobile and wireless telecommunications are incredibly low, which, at most, produce temperature rises in tissue of a few tenths of a degree. Picking up unambiguous biological changes is therefore very difficult.

Frog-in-boiling-water syndrome - which has proven to be a great metaphor in my lifetime for our slow-boiling predicament.

So 5g, despite it’s Covid-vaccine-like-rollout, is: potentially physically dangerous to biological matter, including humans

Now here’s the full-metal-hat extrapolation: telecommunications contribute to climate extremity

Wood says: (T)he main biological effect of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones is a rise in temperature.

Does that rise in temperature feed into global warming?

I’ve seen extreme smog in Taiwan - same thing is going on in all the big manufacturing countries where the world’s chimney smoke comes out (China, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia …). The world really is a small place in the grand scheme of thing (12,756 km wide) - it’s logical that filling up the atmosphere around it with toxic smoke will have adverse consequences.

Fact: Temps are trending up in the limited period where records have been kept (in many places less than 100 years - maximum temp records don't go much past 200 years). The cycles of flooding rains & bushfire drought are growing more extreme, more frequent, in that limited period. In the grand-scheme, however, global warming/cooling is known to happen - way beyond what we're seeing now.

So if there is such a thing as man-made global warming, which i think there likely is, could there be other factors at play fueling this heat-surge data? Concrete city heat-traps, for example, … &/or … electromagnetic radiation?

I don’t know. But it seems possible. What i do know is that the world is not going to apply the same Thought-control rigour to tamping down electromagnetic radiation as it is to fossil fuels. Or Covid draconianism, to keep us safe. Not in my lifetime. We’ve become hopelessly dependent upon the internet - I don't see us throwing our devices in the rubbish bin any time soon.

As Wood notes: Wireless technologies bring enormous benefits, and being over-cautious would potentially deny these benefits to needy communities.

Which amounts to a how-to roadmap for the world going down the gurgler.