00:03baseball was once america's favorite sport and while it's fallen in popularity in recent years
00:08a global crisis might actually make it more exciting moving forward according to researchers
00:13from dartmouth college rising global temperatures might be leading to more epic home runs the
00:18researchers say that the basic principles of air temperature physics are likely coming into play
00:22i.e. warmer air is less dense than cooler air meaning baseball should travel easier through
00:27the air the warmer and therefore less dense it is so researchers looked at data from over 100 000
00:32major league baseball games finding that compared to data from 1962 a game played today in temperatures
00:3818 degrees fahrenheit warmer has 20 more home runs than average but they went even further gathering
00:44high-speed camera data from some 200 000 hits allowing them to compare pitches and hits that
00:49were the same speed and strike angle meaning they could isolate air temperature as a variable with
00:53the researchers finding that at least 500 home runs since just 2010 could be directly linked to air
00:59temperature and lower air density though they add that while this will likely continue and contribute
01:03to thousands of home runs over the next century it will also contribute to more catastrophes around
01:08the globe as well
01:09you
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