Nine years ago Business Insider ran one of the biggest pieces of climate change alarmism in recent memory. The BI story featured places around the country and what they would look like if the predicted rise in sea levels came to fruition (which of course hasn’t happened). The story included this rendering of what AT&T Park in San Francisco would look like with a five-foot rise in sea level caused by burning fossil fuels (not counting the kind that powers the private jets of billionaire eco-alarmists):
Fast forward nine years and guess what — all the ballparks are still dry! It’s almost like these people are full of more s**t than the New York City public sewer system.
But now the media has a new alarm to sound, and it’s not really that scary. Take a look at what the pack animals thinly disguised as journalists are running with now:
A new study finds that climate change is making major league sluggers into even hotter hitters, sending an extra 50 or so home runs a year over the fences. https://t.co/Doee0mbZ7Z
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 7, 2023
And just like that, they were all on the story. It’s like a memo went out:
It's high, it's deep… it's global warming?
Scientists have traced 500 home runs between 2010 to 2019 to climate change — and say the trend is only set to continue.https://t.co/a6Eo4NbNzu
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 7, 2023
Is climate change making it easier to hit a home run in MLB? A new study says yes https://t.co/h9WMwQfmKt
— Bloomberg (@business) April 7, 2023
Wonder Why #MLB Sluggers Are Hitting More Home Runs? Climate Change Has To Do With It https://t.co/2UBzz0MlCo pic.twitter.com/UtmTy9cxpG
— Forbes (@Forbes) April 7, 2023
CNN’s on it too, of course:
Literally fuck you, @CNN pic.twitter.com/NNZhVLioPY
— GayPatriot (@GayPatriot) April 7, 2023
So we’ve gone from “ballparks are going to be underwater” to “OK maybe not but there will be more home runs.”
The explosion of home runs in Major League Baseball can be traced, in small part, to climate change, according to a study published Friday.
In a peer-reviewed paper published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Dartmouth College researchers said they can connect at least 500 additional home runs from 2010 to 2019 to Earth’s human-made warming.
The research was based on their simple premise that “air density is inversely proportional to temperature,” according to the paper, and that with all “else being equal, warmer air is less dense and a batted ball will carry farther.”
Well, hopefully the Inflation Reduction Act will end climate change and help make the best part of a baseball game more rare.
Twitter needs to apply that “state-affiliated media” tag to a lot more media outlets than just NPR.
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