Have you heard about the bees? Bees are disappearing. No one seems to know why. Now our crops might not grow and we might all die off. As usual, great news for the planet. Now, here’s the crazy and terrifying (possible) explanation:

It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world’s harvests fail.

They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

Goddamn. That’s all I can really say about it.

Update: Don’t freak out just yet, me. This is not as unprecedented a phenomenon as the media would have us believe. Instapundit casts some doubt on the hysteria before it reaches hysterical proportions.