NOAA warns of threat to weather forecasts from 5G spectrum

NOAA warns of threat to weather forecasts from 5G spectrum(physicstoday.scitation.org)

20 points by thehogrammer 7 years ago | 7 comments

kkylin 7 years ago |

The last time this topic came up on HN and generated some level of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674218

lifthrasiir 7 years ago |

Related previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674218

CriticalCathed 7 years ago |

Seems to me that we can forgo some measure of higher speed internet in order to preserve our ability to study and forecast the weather (and so the climate.)

I put no stock into the health scares, but reading about how these frequencies may interfere with scientific research and perhaps even natural processes in nature makes me question the value 5G actually would provide.

Why exactly do we need this? Is this about people making money? What benefit does this provide aside from high bandwidth wireless entertainment?

Scaevolus 7 years ago |

Is 77% data loss assuming that _all_ 24GHz observation data is trashed, or just the data near population centers? Presumably 24GHz background noise over the ocean and rural areas would remain very low.

RappingBoomer 7 years ago |

is 5g a threat to the ISPs?

dralley 7 years ago | |

It's not a scare article if it's just rephrasing exactly what NOAA said in a public congressional hearing.

klingonopera 7 years ago | |

I'm starting to entertain the thought that we were scared by Western media into believing that the Russians are trying to scare us of 5G technology as a preemptive strike to discredit any future negative press on 5G...