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ONLY JEHOVAH CAN SAVE THE TURTLES! ?????????????

RISING TEMPERATURES CAUSE SEA TURTLES TO TURN FEMALE
By Craig Welch
PUBLISHED JANUARY 8, 2018
The turtle wranglers landed on Ingram Island thinking about sex and heat.

Pacific green sea turtles spend years cruising this northern Australia feeding ground, fattening up on sea grasses before heading to nesting areas to mate and lay eggs. The scientists simply wanted to know: which of these reptiles were male and which were female?

You can't always tell a sea turtle's sex by looking, so researchers kicked off a "turtle rodeo." They stood atop skiffs and raced toward swimming turtles and launched themselves like bull wrestlers onto the animals' carapaces. After gently steering each turtle to shore, they took DNA and blood samples, and made tiny incisions to inspect turtle gonads.

Since the sex of a sea turtle is determined by the heat of sand incubating their eggs, scientists had suspected they might see slightly more females. Climate change, after all, has driven air and sea temperatures higher, which, in these creatures, favors female offspring. But instead, they found female sea turtles from the Pacific Ocean's largest and most important green sea turtle rookery now outnumber males by at least 116 to 1.

"This is extreme—like capital letters extreme, exclamation point extreme," says turtle scientist Camryn Allen, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Hawaii. "We're talking a handful of males to hundreds and hundreds of females. We were shocked." New research published in Current Biology Monday by Allen and her colleagues is just the latest to suggest that rising temperatures around the world can turn sea turtle populations female. But it is the most detailed look to date at just how significant this problem is already, and raises new questions about the risks globally for marine turtles, as well as for other temperature-dependent species—from alligators and iguanas to inland silversides, an important fish in many streams and estuaries. READ MORE:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/australia-green-sea-turtles-turning-female-climate-change-raine-island-sex-temperature/

ONLY JEHOVAH CAN SAVE THE TURTLES! ?????????????

Thank you,

@paulnicklen

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

When people cannot stand the cold ... they move to Florida ..... when they cannot stand the heat, they move to Vermont. Turtles do the exact same thing.

It messes up your study you are getting paid to do ... but turtles have been around for many hundreds of millions of years, and during the Carboniferous Period, it was a LOT hotter than anything we have today, etc. .... FOR  MILLIONS OF YEARS.

I have seen beaches from an airplane where fish were stranded on the sand by the hundreds of millions .... mile after mile, after mile, rotting in the sun.

99% of all life that has EVER EXISTED on the Earth is now extinct.

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STUFF HAPPENS

GET USED TO IT.

As the famous line in Jurassic Park, the Movie pointed out "Life finds a way".

and......

...sometimes it doesn't.

 

 

 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

DATELINE JANUARY 10. 2018

WASHINGTON—In an attempt to ensure the federal benefit program is not taken advantage of, a new regulation announced Tuesday will require all organisms facing extinction to actively search for a new habitat in order to receive funding for their protection under the Endangered Species Act. “Effective immediately, America’s at-risk species must prove they are making an effort to find a different ecosystem to live in if they wish to obtain government assistance for their continued survival,” said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, adding that endangered creatures such as the black-footed ferret and Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep should not be allowed to just sit back and live on public lands at taxpayer expense unless they agree to take steps to better their own situations. “An ‘endangered’ status isn’t a free pass, and it’s important we put forth policies that encourage a culture of personal responsibility among our nation’s plants and animals. We’re not doing the star cactus or the salt marsh harvest mouse any favors when we allow them to live on the government’s dime, which can create a disincentive for them to secure a place in another habitat and become self-sufficient.” At press time, the Department of the Interior announced further regulations capping the amount of time a species can remain on the endangered list at six months.

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[TrueTomHarley]

12 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

As the famous line in Jurassic Park

Among my favorite movie scenes of all time is that crew fleeing the T-Rex. In the sideview mirror, that beast looks but inches away. 

The mirror logo says; "Objects in this mirror are closer than they appear."