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    Global warming could be juicing baseball home runs, study finds

    Baseball home runs appear to be getting a little extra help from climate change, a new study finds. That's because baseballs can fly farther through air that's made thinner by warmer conditions.
    by Ari Daniel Apr 12, 2023 5 minutes
    A new study finds that climate change is causing more home runs.

    As baseball season heats up, here's something to know: Global warming could be raising your chances of seeing a home run ball sail to the bleachers.

    A new study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society looked at some 60 years of baseball data and daily temperatures, finding that air made thinner by warmer conditions accounted for 1% of home runs on average from 2010-2019.

    That small share is expected to grow to up to 10% by the year 2100 as temperatures climb over the course of this century — making the baseball diamond a kind of prism into the many ways our lives will be impacted by a changing climate, from recreation to health to civic infrastructure.

    "Climate change is not just heat waves or hurricanes," explains , a climate science PhD

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