Just in time for the All-Star game, some baseball-related global warming propaganda!: Baseball stadiums could suffer from CO2-induced flooding or bee swarms; the article also helpfully points out that sitting outdoors when it's too hot "can be unpleasant"

Climate: Warming could be bad for ballplayers, but good for home runs -- 07/09/2012 -- www.eenews.net

Tomorrow's Major League Baseball All-Star Game may provide some needed distraction for many fans across the country affected by the wildfires, heat, flooding and weather-related outages that have characterized the last couple of weeks.

But could America's pastime also be feeling the effects of a changing climate that makes inclement weather more common? And what might baseball do to respond to those changes?

Amanda Staudt, a senior scientist at the National Wildlife Federation, said baseball could feel the effects of climate change in "ways large and small."

"It's possible a stadium could sustain significant damage from rising waters or from a major storm," she said.

More mundane effects of warming could also create a nuisance. Warmer winters have been linked to out-of-control insect populations, and some of those pests have occasionally had the itch to see a baseball game.

In May, a swarm of bees briefly interrupted an Arizona-Colorado game in Denver. Flying ants, bees and other unwelcome visitors have attended games in Cleveland, Detroit and elsewhere, in some cases disrupting the action and affecting the score.

Even without the bugs, Staudt pointed out, sitting outdoors in the heat can be unpleasant.