"Smoking gun about climate change" allegedly found at last!! Using models, a turtle researcher suggests that in the next hundred years, CO2 will cause the hatch rate for leatherback sea turtle eggs to drop by a factor of three!!

Drexel finds leatherback sea turtles may be especially vulnerable to climate change — NewsWorks

Using models of future climate change, Spotila’s team projected in the next hundred years, only about one in six eggs will actually hatch, compared to about one in two now.

"If people want a smoking gun about climate change, this is it,” Spotila said.

James Spotilla - Ph.D. | Department of Biology | Drexel University