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Correction to what I say at 15 mins 57 seconds: It's should be 3 orders of magnitude, not 30.
You'd think that technology and science make a good team, and most often that's true, but every once in a while they get into a big fight. One such case is the 5th generation of wireless networks, 5G for short, that's become a big headache for meteorologist because millimeter waves interfere with the weather forecast. On that occasion I also tell you about a recent review on the health effects of 5G and what 6G may bring.
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The estimate for the number of mobile devices is from here: www.statista.com/statistics/2...
The Cisco estimate for the 5G use is here:
newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsro...
The recent review on the health effects of 5G is here: www.nature.com/articles/s4137...
The call from the WHO for 5G studies is here:
www.who.int/news-room/article...
The figure for the forecast skill is from this article: www.nature.com/articles/natur...
The Jacobs quote from the federal hearing is from here: science.house.gov/hearings/th...
The two CTIA blogposts are here:
www.ctia.org/news/how-a-fake-...
www.ctia.org/news/the-24-ghz-...
The 2020 study from Rutgers about how 5G affects weather forecast is here: arxiv.org/abs/2008.13498
The 6G article on LifeWire which I quote is here: www.lifewire.com/6g-wireless-...
Many thanks to Jordi Busqué for helping with this video jordibusque.com/
00:00 Intro
00:48 Sponsor message
02:13 What's new about 5G?
03:56 Why is 5G controversial?
06:30 How 5G affects the weather forecast
10:00 Meteorologists are not happy
11:15 The other side of the story
14:08 6G
15:22 What's the lesson?
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