Home Run Rise?

Washington Post chief meteorologist Jason Samenow vouched for the validity of Fox Sports Major League Baseball announcer Tim McCarver’s weekend comment that there could be a correlation between the rise in home runs throughout the 20th century and the rise in global temperature.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/30/washington-post-backs-tim-mccarver-climate-change-home-run-connection/#ixzz1tlsoxPij

But what's this? 

Home runs = .95 per game in 2010, the first time the stat dropped below 1.00 since 1994. And 2010 was supposed to be one of the warmest years on record.

Home runs peaked in 2000 at 1.17 per game.

Sounds like Tim McCarver doesn't know what he is talking about nor does the Washington Post.

More for Tim from Real Science.

Maybe Mann is onto something. He says HRs should be down because air is more humid and therefore heavier. This makes no sense. Temperatures have been cooling over the last few years so the air show be cooler and therefore air pressure would be greater resulting in fewer homeruns. per game.

April 2012  The Prince fields snow.