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Climate change is turning 99 percent of these baby sea turtles female
Washington Post ^ | January 8, 2018 | By Ben Guarino

Posted on 01/08/2018 12:38:15 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Green sea turtles do not develop into males or females due to sex chromosomes, like humans and most other mammals do. Instead, the temperature outside a turtle egg influences the sex of the growing embryo. And this unusual biological quirk, scientists say, endangers their future in a warmer world.

Already, some sea turtle populations are so skewed by heat that the young reptiles are almost entirely female, according to a new report in the journal Current Biology.

“This is one of the most important conservation papers of the decade,” said biologist David Owens, a professor emeritus at the College of Charleston who was not a part of this research. It will not be long, perhaps within a few decades to a century, until “there will not be enough males in sea turtle populations,” he warned.

The sex of a green sea turtle is a result of its environment. “They have temperature-dependent sex determination,” said Camryn Allen, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration endocrinology researcher and co-author of the new study. “It’s not genetics. It’s actually the temperature.”

At what biologists call the pivot temperature, turtles hatch as a mixture of males and females. For green sea turtles, this temperature is 29.3 degrees Celsius (85 Fahrenheit). A few degrees below 29.3 C, all the sea turtles are born male. Heat up the eggs and only females are born.

“That transitional range, from 100 percent males to 100 percent females, spans a very narrow band of only a couple of degrees,” said NOAA marine biologist and study co-author Michael Jensen.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

as long as the females are hot, and not as ugly as Oprah, sure why not...


61 posted on 01/08/2018 12:54:48 PM PST by beergarden
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It does not matter that 99% of the turtles will be females. What matters is what each turtle feels its gender to be. There are probably thousands of sea turtles that identify with the dozens of genders currently recognized by the weirdo non-genderphobic sea turtles and with the dozens of genders yet to be discovered.
62 posted on 01/08/2018 12:55:11 PM PST by catpuppy
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To: relictele

I’m with you - legions of baby green sea turtle experts turning them all over and determining their sex. Uh-huh...


63 posted on 01/08/2018 12:56:53 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Target rich environment for male sea turtles in the near future!


64 posted on 01/08/2018 12:56:55 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fake news


65 posted on 01/08/2018 12:57:21 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocke)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What measurable aspect of climate is to blame for this phenomenon? I suspect this is a total contrived lie.


66 posted on 01/08/2018 12:58:00 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: dragnet2

“Climate change did the same thing to the males in Hollywood, CA.”

Turned them into eunuchs.


67 posted on 01/08/2018 12:58:07 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

According to CNN the female turtles are also paid less than male turtles.


68 posted on 01/08/2018 12:58:12 PM PST by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
OMG, going to have to add this one to the list...they have already seen this problem in birds!


69 posted on 01/08/2018 12:58:16 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So.... during the last Ice Age, all the sea turtles were male?


70 posted on 01/08/2018 12:59:13 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wish I was a male sea turtle.


71 posted on 01/08/2018 1:00:28 PM PST by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: Salamander; BlueLancer

Watched a box turtle go all moon eyed over a shoe once.
Was rather hilarious.


72 posted on 01/08/2018 1:01:15 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: dragnet2

You win the internets! Hahaha!


73 posted on 01/08/2018 1:02:27 PM PST by CygnusXI
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“That transitional range, from 100 percent males to 100 percent females, spans a very narrow band of only a couple of degrees,” said NOAA marine biologist and study co-author Michael Jensen.

How have sea turtles survived over millions of years?

NOAA produces the fakest #FakeScience...

NOAA Temperature Adjustments Correlate Exactly with the Rise in CO2 - Big Surprise

Thermometers show the US cooling since about 1920, but NOAA massively cools the past to create the appearance of a warming trend. These adjustments make a spectacular hockey stick of data tampering. When plotted against atmospheric CO2, the correlation is almost perfect. NOAA is tampering with the data exactly to match their theory.

NOAA Radiosonde Data Shows No Warming For 58 Years March 7, 2016

NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming ‘Hiatus’ 6/4/2015

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have found a solution to the 15-year “pause” in global warming: They “adjusted” the hiatus in warming out of the temperature record. New climate data by NOAA scientists doubles the warming trend since the late 1990s by adjusting pre-hiatus temperatures downward and inflating temperatures in more recent years.

NOAA = Fake Science!


74 posted on 01/08/2018 1:02:41 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The next study will be on dead beat male turtles.


75 posted on 01/08/2018 1:02:53 PM PST by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: stockpirate
>>So each male gets 99 females to work with. This means a burst in the next few years of sea turtles.

So I searched for Geriatric, really tired, Turtles and....

http://russia-insider.com/en/decrepit-geriatric-senator-nearly-euthanizes-himself-after-learning-trump-doesnt-think-america

 

What was the water temp when he got hatched?

76 posted on 01/08/2018 1:03:41 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: KC_Lion

They have been around for 65 MILLION years, yet they are doomed if the earth’s temperature fluctuates more than a few degrees for a decade????

Man, some people will fall for anything.... some people are stupid.


77 posted on 01/08/2018 1:05:02 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
OK, so why didn't the green sea turtles go extinct during the last major ice age?

Were there gay sea turtles? Teal sea turtles?

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78 posted on 01/08/2018 1:05:04 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Rebelrage

Check your wallet!


79 posted on 01/08/2018 1:05:37 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: stockpirate

Guess that means the female turtles won’t be getting any headaches for awhile


80 posted on 01/08/2018 1:08:12 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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