Ivy League study claims MLB players are hitting more home runs thanks to global warming

KTXS.com ^ | April 10, 2023 | Zachary Rogers

[Twotone]

Major League Baseball (MLB) are hitting more home runs thanks to global warming and climate change, a new study claims.

Published on Friday, the study "Global warming, home runs, and the future of America’s pastime" focuses on data that reportedly shows "higher temperatures substantially increase home runs."

Dartmouth College researchers who published the study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society claim they can attribute at least 500 home runs from 2010 to 2019 to "historical" warming.

Home runs in baseball—fair balls hit out of the field of play—have risen since 1980, driving strategic shifts in gameplay," the study's abstract reads. "Myriad factors likely account for these trends, with some speculating that global warming has contributed via a reduction in ballpark air density."

Here we use observations from 100,000 Major League Baseball games and 220,000 individual batted balls to show that higher temperatures substantially increase home runs," researchers say in the study's abstract.

[teeman8r]

bring back the cold weather play...

[Larry Lucido]

Of course they are.

[teeman8r]

rain forest wood makes the best bats.

[Huskrrrr]

Not the Bee

[ClearCase_guy]

1) Something is happening.
2) Why is it happening?
3) I dunno. Let’s blame Global Warming.

[larrytown]

This is good.

Let the stoopid suggest and portray every silly-azz proposition as some result of 'climate change'.

reductio ad absurdum

[eyeamok]

Yet they can’t demonstrate any warming for the last 10-12 years using hard data, facts and real science??

[gibsonguy]

Dartmouth College Is supposedly an Ivy League College. This BS shows they are no better than the nearest Community College

[SunkenCiv]

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[tomkat]

.. claim they can attribute at least 500 home runs from 2010 to 2019 to "historical" warming.

             

[AAABEST]

Except the st00pids are in charge of everything.

So it’s not really so good.

[chopperk]

The heat from Global Warming must be effecting the Dartmouth researchers brains. How ridiculous?

[matt04]

How much money did this “study” cost to review every HR between 2010 and 2019.

[KarlInOhio]

During that time there were about 46,000 home runs, so they claim that 1% wouldn’t have been made without global warming. Now compare that to steroids.

[ridesthemiles]

Golf???

FOOTBALL???

[ßuddaßudd]

didnt they want to change the baseball a few years back to slow down the home runs? yes

[dfwgator]

Are the stadiums under water yet?

[TomGuy]

Everything is racism.

Everything is due to climate change.

Same ole, same old.

[SamAdams76]

More goals in hockey too. I think it’s because the global warming is heating the underside of the ice, making it more slippery up top. This allows pucks to travel along the ice further and faster, confounding the goaltenders.