The Heat Is On: Climate Change Causes Birds To Hatch Early (australiangeographic.com.au)

grrlscientist writes: A recently published study reveals that climate change can cause birds' eggs to hatch early. In addition to creating warmer temperatures that trigger early embryonic development in birds, climate change also increases the frequency and duration of heat waves. Thus, warming temperatures are leading to asynchronous hatching of individual eggs within a clutch and increased chick mortality, particularly for birds breeding in the tropics and semi-tropics, and in tropical deserts.

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Confirmation Bias

[Anonymous Coward]

Confirmation Bias

In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias (or confirmatory bias) is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions, leading to statistical errors.

Did these "Researchers" rule out all other possibilities? Or did that just look and say, "this fits"?

Because then you can say Correlation does not mean Causation.

Odds are, they had a suspicion and went looking for evidence that confirmed their suspicion. But unless they ruled out all the other reasonably possible causes, then all they have is a correlation. Did they work with ornithologists? Vets?

This is what happens when Government Grant money flows freely to people that toe the party line...Sloppy Science.