“…thinner air” cited by sports broadcaster
From DeadSpin’s Timothy Burke:
Tim McCarver Blames Global Warming For The Increase In Major League Home Runs
We’d normally save this sort of thing for McCarve’d Up (which will be back next week after being pre-empted for NFL draft coverage) but Tim McCarver said one of the stupidest things ever spoken on a television broadcast today, blaming global warming for “making the air thin” and thus leading to a rise in home runs.
Climate change, or in McCarver’s words “climactic change,” is the culprit (and not, say, steroids, the age of which McCarver insists is over). Global warming is a real thing (climate change deniers are already giving McCarver a beatdown online) but the theory it’s led to increased major league offensive production is one of the most insane things ever asserted by a professional broadcaster. And this man is in the Hall of Fame! [Fox]
h/t to WUWT reader Eric Neilsen
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Former MLB player and broadcaster Tim McCarver…Image from Wikipedia
Too many balls to the head?
UPDATE: It gets dumber. MLB has blocked the video on YouTube citing copyright violations…except that under fair use exceptions to the copyright law, criticism of boneheadedness is allowed, especially when using short snippets like this video clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSRwnY3eHKU&feature=player_embedded
And these two incidents, combined with exorbitant prices to support exorbitant salaries, are why I don’t go to baseball games anymore. The great American pastime has lost its mojo.
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and there is me thinking it was the steroids!!! How wrong can I be… (sarc)
Well it is funny how anti global warmists are called crackpots and alarmists, so it will be interesting to see what the scientific GW community have to say about this non peer reviewed published statement….
Seriously?
WoW.
Tim McCarver, High School Diploma (1959)
I suppose that I need tell anyone with an education that a warm, moisture laden atmosphere would actually shorten the distance of a baseball given equal bat launching energy and trajectory as opposed to cold and dry .
Yes but lets not forget that baseball players also think a purely US based competition is somehow a World Series, so comments about ‘thin air from climate change’ shouldn’t come as too big a suprise. /sarc
(At least when we have a World Series Cricket competition we actually invite around 14 different countries to compete).
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Hall of Lame is more appropriate.
Tim McCarver is one of those dumb, ex-jock sportscasters, that, when you hear them on the radio you tune to another station hoping to find a deodorant commercial.
Support from James Cameron and Leo Dicaprio in 3.. 2…
In the NFL passing us up nearly 60 yards per game since 2003:
“How the NFL Put a Fork in Defense” (WSJ, April 26th) by Kevin Clark
Two major sports – two data points. Statistics don’t lie, so it must be true. The air is more buoyant. Put Tim McCarver right up there with the other “climate scientists” who know of what they speak. Or maybe not so much.
It’s proof of falling sea levels.
Its well known in cricket that balls go farther at higher altitude where the air is thinner. Falling sea levels will increase the altitude and thin the air.
Using that logic, Denver’s quarterbacks should be able to throw touchdown passes from 5 yards inside their own endzone during home games…
Mike Busby says:
April 28, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Yes but lets not forget that baseball players also think a purely US based competition is somehow a World Series, so comments about ‘thin air from climate change’ shouldn’t come as too big a suprise. /sarc
(At least when we have a World Series Cricket competition we actually invite around 14 different countries to compete)
In hopes of fielding two complete teams?
Yeah, I know, I’m going to hell for that,,,
@John F. Hultquist. As the air is more buoyant, aircraft will be able to use less fuel in their flights., but precipitation will be inhibited. Overall, is buoyant air a positive or negative feedback?
This explains a lot, especially the improvements in athletics. We now know that Usain Bolt’s 100m and 200m world records were climate assisted.
TC
Why, as time goes by it seems to be getting easier to pull theories out of thin air, which proves air is getting thinner indeed, does not it?
It is indeed rare that someone says something so stupid that mocking them just seems pointless.
Maybe we should just consider ourselves lucky that the King of Baseball Trivia hasn’t yet charted out home runs per ppm CO2 or ACE, along with all he rest of his irrelevant correlations. Sad to say McCarver can really almost ruin a baseball game by insisting on revealing to us his endless nonsensical correlations, and I’m a loyal St.Louis Cardinal fan! [McCarver was a Catcher for St.L. back in the day, and the story the great Bob Gibson told on this same ‘climate change’ broadcast about the first time he met Willie Mays is still quite funny: until he met Gibson off the field at his home in San Franciso, Mays didn’t know that Gibson always wore glasses so that he could see well enough to function normally…except when Gibson was pitching! According to Gibson, Willie was pretty well shook!]
Yep, steroids are long gone, except for those who are poor & ignorant.
It’s HGH, Aranesp & other biosynthetics now.
OK, deniers, but what else can explain Baltimore’s 13-8 record, Washington at 14-7 and Pujols’ .226 average? Something weird is in the air.
davidmhoffer says:
“It is indeed rare that someone says something so stupid that mocking them just seems pointless.”
Sounds just like a reference to Joe Biden.☺
Graphite says:
April 29, 2012 at 12:14 am
“OK, deniers, but what else can explain Baltimore’s 13-8 record, Washington at 14-7 and Pujols’ .226 average? Something weird is in the air.”
The increased CO2 content clearly enables faster oxygen release in muscle tissue, as hemoglobin is sensitive to the higher acidity caused by the CO2. It has nothing to do with thinner air. 😉
Take it down to Tim McCarver’s level.
How can increasing the amount of gas in the atmosphere make the air “thinner”?
Can this guy chew and walk at the same time?