The correlation is nearly perfect. As CO2 levels change, sperm concentrations in male semen change right along
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/carbon-dioxide-is-shriveling-mens-balls/
OCTOBER 7, 2018
After validating a parameterless model based on surprisingly common consumer software packages, the team derived a transformation equation based on τ = 1 at 1973 for the Mauna Loa data:
y = π +κx, where π = -238 and κ = -ln(11)
The math behind all this is too advanced for most laymen to understand, but it can be illustrated in chart form quite…
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Can’t say if this correlation is accurate or not. There are so many other factors at work, such as growing microplastics and other toxins in our diet.
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I think the correlation is probably okay, Rosaliene, but as you point out correction doesn’t automatically indicate causation. I think the point here is to get some climate deniers (which in my experience are mostly male) to start worrying their balls might be shrinking.
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Well finally — this might get some action!
It doesn’t look like most of us care enough about our planet or even about our grandchildren to be willing to forsake our lazy fossil fuel habits. But a mortal threat to men’s cherished virility? That may be a different matter!
Thanks for all the interesting items you dig up for us. – Linda
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Great headline, LInda, isn’t it? It certainly got my attention because I know how much men worry about their virility.
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“Carbon Dioxide Is Shriveling Men’s Balls”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! First, let me pick myself up off the floor over THAT one! Dr. Bramhall, did you make the title up or was that the title of the original article? LMAO!! I can’t wait until they cannot even find the shriveled raisins with a microscope and it would serve them right since ‘white’ men, for the most part, are responsible for why this planet is in the shape that it’s in. When ALL lies barren and desolate and infertility is on them, then I guess they’ll ALL be satisfied. To hell with their shriveled, obsolete nuts!
This one is a hoot! LOL!
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Gee Shelby, I sure wish I could take credit for the title. The author was a man – Kevin Drum – but I would bet anything a woman came up with the title. I’m glad you enjoyed it as much as I did.
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For many years the number of babies correlated very closely with the stork population.
That didnât mean that the storks were responsible for the babiesâ¦.
There are heaps of correlations like that that are no proof of causality.
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More likely from all the uranium, radium, tritium, cesium 137 in the food, water and soil everywhere in Murcia now. They are by far, the most potent toxin known to humans. 3000 or so nuclear bombs detonated in the 50s, 60s. Reactors, meltdowns, fukushima, Chernobyl . 200 million Americans drink water with uranium radium in it. Waste everywhere. Even in landfills. Most potent teratogen. Mutagen, sperm an ova neutralizer known. They at one time Used x-rays to sterilize women.
Mother Jones is pronuclear so they print this. Could be a factor, but not as likely as radioactive poison. Estrogenic chemicals and pesticides effect it too. Look at what happened at fallujah with a little depleted uranium
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=fallujah+birth+defects&FORM=HDRSC2&PC=U316
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Gloria, I suspect the article is an attempt to grab climate deniers where it hurts. As several commenters point out correlation doesn’t equate with causation – which is extremely difficult to establish with so many independent variables. Thanks for your comment.
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Point taken, Lowell. As you can see from the comments, the article is less about science than a private joke among women.
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Is that what’s doing it? Damn!
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Alan, you are funny as.
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🙂
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