According to the “experts,” this increase in better baseball playing is all thanks to climate change.
Oh lordy….
Scientific American reported that Home runs are exhilarating – those lofting moments when everyone looks skyward, baseball players and fans alike, anxiously awaiting the outcome: run or out, win or loss, elation or despair.
Over the past several Major League Baseball seasons, home run numbers have climbed dramatically, including Aaron Judge’s record-breaking 62 homers for the New York Yankees in 2022.
Baseball analysts have pointed to many different factors for this surge, from changes in baseball construction to advances in game analytics.
Our new study, published April 7, 2023, offers solid evidence for another cause – rising global temperatures.
The physics tell a simple and compelling story: Warm air is less dense than cool air. As air heats up and molecules move faster, the air expands, leaving more space between molecules. As a result, a batted ball should fly farther on a warmer day than it would on a cooler day owing to less air resistance.
This simple physical link has prompted speculation from the media about the connection between climate change and home runs.
But while scientists like Alan Nathan have shown that balls go farther in higher temperatures, no formal scientific investigation had been performed to prove that global warming is helping fuel baseball’s home run spree – until now.
In our study, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in collaboration with anthropologists
Nathaniel J. Dominy and Jeremy M. DeSilva , we used data from over 100,000 Major League Baseball games and 200,000 individual batted balls, alongside observed game day temperatures, to show that warming temperatures have, in fact, increased the number of home runs.
These people have lost their dang minds. Pretty soon everything under the sun will be attributed, both good and bad, to “GLOBAL WARMING.”
The “experts” and the “science” community are really going off the rails with this nonsense.
