Settled science: Trace amounts of CO2 cause either more home runs, less home runs, or the same amount of home runs

Professor McCarver's 'baseball bat' theory of climate change | MNN - Mother Nature Network

As someone who has drawn fire for associating climate change with a large wooden sports implement, Mann said via email that he "did find this latest baseball/world climate change dust-up somewhat amusing."

 

Mann also threw a high, hard one at McCarver's theory, saying that the carbon emissions behind climate change may even lower home runs. "If anything, anthropogenic carbon emissions and global warming should make the atmosphere slightly heavier, because we're taking carbon that was trapped in the solid earth and releasing to the atmosphere (in the form of CO2), and a warmer atmosphere will hold more water vapor. Both CO2 and water vapor contribute (slightly) to the mass of the atmosphere."

Tim McCarver isn’t crazy: the home run and global warming connection - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

Maybe Bastardi, Deadspin, Watts, Berk et al. should dial back their criticism.