The team behind the study — led by Christopher Callahan, a doctoral candidate in geography — determined that a 1°C increase in the daily high temperature on the day a baseball game is played increases the number of home runs by 1.96%. In games played in the early afternoon, the effect is larger: 2.4%.
“I was inspired to work on this study as a baseball fan, wondering about how climate change will affect the things I care about,” Callahan told Bloomberg Green. “I knew that this link between home runs and temperature had been proposed previously by folks like Dr. Alan Nathan, but I was curious about whether it could be seen in the large-scale data, as well as what the role of climate change might be.
Each degree of global warming is associated with about 95 more home runs per baseball season. Warming on a high-emissions pathway would cause players across the MLB to hit an additional 192 home runs per year by 2050 and a further 467 by 2100, the authors project.
Words of a Diddler
Are you fucking kidding me... could the real reason be ball players are in better shape than they ever have been. Fuck man