The Everything Excuse

I must divert from writing about cows and cowboys this week to address a subject near and dear to my heart – baseball. A new study from Dartmouth College concluded climate change is responsible for major league ball players hitting more home runs.

According to a Bulletin of Meteorological Study , “Warmer air means molecules in the air are further apart. And in less dense air, there is less air resistance.”

The report found more than 500 home runs between 2010 and 2019 can be attributed to higher average temperatures resulting from climate change – I wonder if the Ivy League wizards have ever heard of steroids?

Dartmouth professors are full of hot air, and their study makes me wonder if they’ve ever been to a ballgame.

I didn’t attend Dartmouth, but I can make the argument using the same logic that in less dense air, baseballs thrown by pitchers would speed up, making it even more difficult for batters to hit, resulting in more strikeouts and FEWER home runs.

I did learn something from this Dartmouth study though –we now have an “everything excuse” which can