Your Fault: Global Boiling Causing More Home Runs

There’s nothing more American than mom, apple pie, and baseball, right? So, of course the climate cult has to dig its skeezy, cult fingers into America’s pastime

Climate change is causing more home runs. Here’s why

While most impacts of climate change tend to be negative, here’s one that most would agree is not. In fact it may be exciting!

According to a recent study, Major League Baseball now sees more homeruns than it used to because of a warmer, more humid climate. And as the climate continues to warm, home runs in outside parks will continue to spike.

Baseball season has warmed by a few degrees all across the US due to climate change. The Tampa Bay Area baseball season has warmed by 3 degrees. Moisture in the air has also increased – a feedback of a warmer climate.

As a result a study found we now see around 60 more home runs than we used to a couple of decades ago. That’s because warmer – more humid air is less dense, which creates less drag, and allows the ball to travel farther.

The world has warmed around 1.6F since 1850. Tampa Bay is certainly seeing more of the Urban Heat Island effect and land use to cause it to be warmer than the surround areas. Even so, that’s just proof of localized warming during a typical Holocene warm period, it fails to prove anthropogenic causation for the globe.

For every 10 degree increase in temperature, the ball can travel 3 feet further. The climate has warmed by a little over 3 degrees, so that means the balls are now traveling ~1 ft further than back in the 1970s and that does not include the extra moisture, which adds more.

But, um, couldn’t it be mostly due to bigger, stronger players with better conditioning using better training and bats in the same size parks? Because some of these guys have been crushing it.

In the future, as we continue to warm the Earth, it is estimated we will see hundreds more homeruns per season in the MLB by the 2nd half of the century. This applies – of course – to outside stadiums.

Still wouldn’t prove anthropogenic causation. But, this is a cult, they have to scaremonger everything

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