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!
Excise me.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima.
I have been to Japan many times over the years.
Japan is not a microcosm of Earth. And the girl in the colorized 1920s art deco photo, very nice, but she is not Japanese and if she had visited Japan, for long enough, she would not want to live there either.
Too bloody late. I’m 69 this year. By the time there is a massive desperate surplus I’ll be dead.
(Yawn) Get back to me when we’ve achieved Dr. Strangelove’s optimum ratio of one male to ten females, each with sexual characteristics of “a highly stimulating nature”.
“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” There we go again! I’ll have to change religion now! The other mob allows you to have 3 wives and 15 concubines!!!! I’ll need another job or two……
Makes me wish I was much younger. Good thing there are pills for men to help with that, though.
But what about their birth weights?
http://joannenova.com.au/2015/06/does-global-warming-make-your-baby-smaller-800-years-from-now-babies-may-be-17g-smaller/#more-43060
And will they eat chocolate?
http://joannenova.com.au/2015/06/chocolate-is-the-fountain-of-youth-eat-blocks-live-long-be-slim/#more-43067
Global warming NOW!
This will only partly make up for the missing millions of female births in China during the other grand policy mistake and over reach.
Is that Bruce Jenner in the picture?
If it is, he’s going the wrong way.
I thought it was Frank Maloney
I assume that by the exacting standards of modern climate science, this claim will have been checked by confirming that male to female ratio is low in hot countries and high in cold ones? Which figure was that in the article?
Likely the Chinese will be pleased.
Nothing to do with increased estrogen-like substances in the diet.
I guess you could hypothesise that as the population became denser, the danger of alpha males getting warlike might increase, so adaptive evolution would favour creating more women and more wimps.
But I’d go with biochemicals in the food personally. Clearer lines of evidence, clearer biochemical mechanisms. Sperm counts dropping etc etc.
Oh, good, says red-blooded male person Keith.
Need to balance off the killing of female babies in places like Communist China and Iran/Iraq (where boys were bred as cannon fodder for the war between them).
Last I heard baby gender was heavily influenced by diet. So stop eating ice cream, watermelon, …
… Keith is silly on Wedne_S_day.
Re : r says: June 16, 2015 at 6:41 am
Well, we’d have to know the life cycle of eels.
In some species the female eats the male after he has done his part in procreation?