Lizards all male climate change club

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Lizards all male climate change club

...How do the researchers know this? Why, a computer told them so.

Previous computers did not tell them so, which forced the researchers
to reprogram them, this time incorporating in their models “physics of
heat transfer with terrain data.” Well, that is impressive. The researchers then “simulated climate change and then monitored its effect on specific points across the island.”

What they found was shocking: Rampant maleness, which naturally carries with it the consequence of enforced bachelorhood.

For those of you who are not as computer savvy as I, let me summarize. Researchers
programmed a computer to show that when the temperature rises, fewer
female lizards are born. They then told the computer that temperatures
were in fact rising. The computer then said “fewer female lizards are
born.”

The researchers pored over this result and came to the
conclusion that “warmer temperatures caused by global warming imply
fewer female lizards will be born.” They wrote this in a paper which
was duly summarized at Nature. Science in action!