Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Daily Mail reports that climate change will result in more female births, tilting the gender balance towards women.
According to The Daily Mail;
Experts studied birth records and miscarriages in Japan between 1968 and 2012.
Overall, more girls were born compared to boys and temperature fluctuations – particularly from a hot summer to a cold winter – saw the sex ratio become temporarily more pronounced.
The study claims that temperature fluctuations have influenced the ratio, but makes it clear that climate change may not be responsible for skewing the number of girls and boys that are born.
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If the world is getting hotter and rising temporaries do favour the birth of girls, a change to the global sex ratio may happen one day.
What a set of predictions – More beautiful young women running about, wearing less clothing, and a scorching beach friendly tropical climate. We must act now, before its too late!
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I thought these social warriors types wanted to get rid of all men. If they have a way to clone humans then what could possibly be bad from this outcome? In progressive theory wouldn’t that solve all the world’s problems in one felt swoop?
Temperature affects sex ratio?
Hello, everybody!
We are mammals.
We are not reptiles.
More specifically, we are not marine reptiles.
To the point, we are not sea turtles.
It is very well known that sand (or nest) temperature during the incubation of the eggs affects the sex ratio of green sea turtle hatching.
Us mammals have the property of homeostasis. In other words, we control our body temperature. We have freed ourselves from the tyranny of the random, ambient environment determining what sex we become during gestation.
*sigh*
we are doomed.
We aren’t sea turtles? Are you sure? Can you prove it?
Most days I vacillate between feeling like a sea turtle and an amoeba.
Trans-speciation
LGBTQSD = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, species dysphoria:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_dysphoria
Cogito ergo furry? 🙂
As usual, they get a two-fer; what “global warming” doesn’t do is covered by “climate change”.
Could have something to do with the fact that dudes is cool and chicks is hot…
Bring it on is what I say!
I know it works for chickens, great to know it works for chicken-littles as well.
I wonder what the femail to male ratio was in the Roman and Midieval warm periods?
That’s “fepersons”.
I sure hope that someone is keeping this list of all the things caused by Climate Change updated. When the world ends it would be a shame not to know what happened
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming2.html
Well damnation. This is very bad news. I am selfish and don’t like to share. However, I did my part to balance out the ratio just as the temperatures were heating up. Two boys, one girl in the first half of the 1980’s. Grandkids: not done yet. The jury is out.
I’ve definitely noticed the increase in attractive women as I was passing through my 60s.
If the sex ratio really has changed, then perhaps this is a real and serious problem. However, the effect may be caused by pollution or something like excess estrogen in the environment or diet. For example, all the eels in the Hudson River, for some reason are female. It could be from PCBs, phthalates, or estrogen in the urine of women taking birth control pills that is flushed down the toilet and into the river. Also there is a large amount of soy in our modern diets. To blame global warming shifts attention away from the real culprit. Similarly coral bleaching may be caused by certain sun screen products not warming. In other countries some types of sun screen are banned. Why do we still allow these types of products in the US? Because the global warming hype shifts attention away from finding a real solution to real environmental problem.
I think, for the US at least, the environmental factor is less of a factor than stress of our hyper-legislative culture.
It’s more the prevelance of our busy-body, worry-wort, constant need of a dire-problem culture. That jacks up our hormones more than a little BPA and pesticide.
To paraphrase your point then: A free society is discrimination against women.
Sure, or a female dominant and male oppressive society is self-reinforcing, socially and biologically.
(If you buy the male/female anti-boy society narative.)
“climate change will result in more female births”
This is good news, women are smaller, they eat less, they’re prettier and they smell better.
Whether they’re smarter or not is debatable.
Smell better? Hummm…
One of the best compliments you can pay to a woman is:
“Your not as dumb as most women I know.”.
Back to the topic at hand – we are now temperature dependent, just like sea turtles and alligators.
I don’t understand these claims. A rise of 8.5 degrees lowers birth weight? So babies conceived in the winter in the UK (or say the East Coast of the US) have lower birth rates than those conceived in the summer?
As for the sex ratio, they don’t seem to be claiming more miscarriages as temperature rises, so how do you get fewer male conceptions because of temperature?
[Birth date? Or gestation date? Or average-in-womb-period-date temperature? .mod]
In terms of serious heat problems, I’m sure the UK hasn’t reached a threshold yet.
This is entirely true and I have personal, first hand experience to prove it. May I start by stating that I am known for making some bad lifestyle choices – but I blame that on AGW. Anyway, my liver decided to rebel, and in consequence I received a prescription for spirinolactone. For brevity I’ll just call it spiro – no, I won’t. Anyway, I’m one of these anal people who actually reads the information that comes with a prescription. And, one of the side effects of spiro…oops, spirinolactone … is that it causes the nipples to become sensitive, enlarged, and also for breasts to begin to develop. Well, guess what? I began to realize what an adolescent girl goes through except in my case it was 180 degrees opposite: Can’t you guys get smaller, can’t you guys get smaller? Thankfully, I didn’t start lactating. But, when I woke up in the morning with one of my hands gently caressing my chest I figured it was time to take action. (I won’t tell you where my other hand was.)
So, in a follow up appointment I mentioned this side effect of spirinolactone to the nurse and she told me it was common for men to complain about it. Ya’ think?
Anyway, this was a few years back and the unenviable appearance of grape tomato sized breasts, and erect, swollen nipples, on a 50+ year old man are now resting peacefully in the graveyard of global warming catastrophes. And it all seemed to sort of, kind of, correlate to the hiatus in global warming. So it must constitute proof, eh?
Quality, not quantity.
I used to grow Lychee, every year the ratio of superb to good to rubbish and finally rejects stayed the same. I hope it’s the same in this case as well……
So it’s the same story as global-warming-making-babies-smaller story using “a Satellite-Based Spatiotemporal Resolved Air Temperature” bollocks.
Also, I’ve heard of the five mile high club but just how many babies are actually born in the lower troposhpere where satellites take their measurements?
When scientists tested the responses of crested newt (Triturus cristatus) larvae to extreme temperatures, they found that a percentage of the animals – which normally differentiate into males or females based on genetic factors – changed sexes. When the temperatures were at the high end of their acceptable range, about half of the females became male; at lower temperatures, the reverse occurred, and about half of the males became females.
I agree with the stress aspect. Society is getting more stressed … demands more females, as just a few very happy males will suffice for nature’s purposes.
A dirty job……but SOMEBODY has to do it!
The last and final climate change headline might read, “Climate change causes the climate not to change at an alarming and frightening rate”
Great. More women. That’s what got us into this mess, in the first place. If it weren’t for women, do you think we’d have built all of those skyscrapers and stuff? No. Except for women, we’d have been down on the river, taking a nap under a shade tree, waiting for a fish to bite.
Rofl……my wife agrees with you….
Biologicaly, we probably have adapted to produce more girls to increase the population growth rate after/during stressfull times.
Fortunately, I think they may end up being right for the wrong reasons. As our society and economies develop and climate change makes our lives easier and more productive, the pressures that invigorate the social counter, the cultural preference for boys, will drop off.
This had me convinced of global warming before I found WUWT.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26464539@N04/8534998968
definitely a hockey stick in there somewhere!
Fellow travellers, we were born too soon!
I prefer somewhere left of centre…
They studied miscarriages is Japan? Why not study gender of births in tropics vs cold climates? Otherwise why even mention climate? Summer vs winter doesn’t matter as far as climate change, because slight warming does not abolish the seasons. And they are called “experts”…ha!
Well, this is good enough for the Climate Nobel Committee. Just ask Al and Mann.
OH NO! That picture. That bathing suit. Is it proof that all the downward adjustments to past temperatures are accurate after all?!
It’s BETTER than we thought!
😎 …… But I’m sure my wife would agree. 😎