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Global warming causing 'feminisation' of turtles: Study
The Economic Times (India) ^ | December 20, 2018

Posted on 12/20/2018 10:09:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

LONDON - Up to 93 per cent of green turtle hatchlings could be female by 2100, as climate change causes "feminisation" of the species, according to a study.

The sex of turtle hatchlings is determined by temperature, and at present about 52 per cent of hatching green turtles - one of seven species of sea turtle - are female.

Researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK and the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre in Portugal found that in warmer temperatures predicted by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IP-CCCP) scenarios, 76-93 per cent of hatchlings would be female.

"Green turtles are facing trouble in the future due to loss of habitats and increasing temperatures," said Rita Patricio from the University of Exeter.

"Our results suggest the nesting population of green turtles the Bijagos Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau, will cope with the effects of climate change until 2100," said Patricio.

"Cooler temperatures, both at the end of the nesting season and in shaded areas, will guarantee some hatchlings are male.

(Excerpt) Read more at economictimes.indiatimes.com ...


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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m a Turtle (YBYSAIA, if you wish to ask) and I’ve not been feminized by Glo-bull Warming that I know of!


21 posted on 12/20/2018 10:42:21 AM PST by ssaftler (From Governor Moon Bat to Governor Gruesome. We're doomed, I tell you!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Transgendered Turtles caused by Global Warming?? I guess boys thinking they are girls are caused by Global Warming!! What BS...


22 posted on 12/20/2018 10:43:02 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wonder if “global warming” is what is causing the feminization of males in this country also.


23 posted on 12/20/2018 10:48:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: hal ogen

Haha. I was thinking the same thing.


24 posted on 12/20/2018 10:51:13 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Funny, that wasn’t such a crime when it was planned for White males in the United States.


25 posted on 12/20/2018 10:56:46 AM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

26 posted on 12/20/2018 11:08:48 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now we know why there are so many lib men.


27 posted on 12/20/2018 11:22:24 AM PST by Signalman
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To: MrEdd
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28 posted on 12/20/2018 11:58:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: FrankR

It evidently does NOT cause an increase in IQ.


29 posted on 12/20/2018 12:16:30 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The left loves it when males go femmy. So this ought to make them happy.


30 posted on 12/20/2018 1:04:41 PM PST by lurk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Is that what happened with "Turtle" McConnell???


31 posted on 12/20/2018 2:17:13 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The year of the woman?


32 posted on 12/20/2018 3:02:19 PM PST by amihow
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not that there is anything wrong with that.


33 posted on 12/20/2018 3:04:36 PM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And here I thought it was the estrogen-laden vegan soy foods and pharmaceutical birth control pills being peed into the water system.


34 posted on 12/20/2018 3:52:59 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning' --Donald Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; 100American; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; ...
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35 posted on 12/22/2018 7:55:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

Bet he’s not used to people yelling back at him.


36 posted on 12/22/2018 7:56:59 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is that REALLY MCCONNELL’S PROBLEM?


37 posted on 12/23/2018 3:21:12 AM PST by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So that’s good, right? Wouldn’t want any of that toxic turtle masculinity, you know. Or is that just hoomans?


38 posted on 12/24/2018 8:47:23 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If only James Earl Jones could overdub his voice to this photo


39 posted on 12/24/2018 8:59:21 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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