Sunday, November 24, 2024, 11:55
At a quick and casual glance, what I’m about to tell you sounds like nonsense. Gallant curiosity. But don’t think, it has importance, it has special importance. There is another sign, another warning about climate change, about the climate emergency. Perhaps, at the COP29 international meeting in Baku, neither one nor the other was discussed or considered. Well, they are two different types of cheese. One comes from the world of sports. The other, however, from the Earth itself. One has an impact on multiple baseball brands, wins and losses. Others will change the way we measure time. Better late than never.
Maybe you like baseball. Baseball or softball is a variety of the game. There is more than one team in our fields. And if you haven’t seen it, or if you’ve never seen a game, the cinema usually gives us decent news about this sporting activity that is almost a national sport in the United States, Cuba and Japan.
Do you know what baseball’s ‘home run’ is (jonrón in Spanish)? The batter hits the ball with his bat, allowing the players on his team to run the bases. Those players must run counter-clockwise around the four bases. A run is scored when a runner advances around the bases, in order, and home (home, the place where the player started as a batter, that is, when he touches). Depending on the force established by that batsman, the ball can even go out of the stadium, up into the sky.
Believe it or not, since 2010 they are hitting more home runs than ever before. A research machine carried out at Dartmouth University in the United States has shown that they are getting about 50 more home runs (per year). And those tests were not joking, but serious. It was so precise and rigorous that it has just been published in the official journal of the Meteorology of the United States.
Where is the link, the connection between home runs and climate change? If the temperature is higher, the air will not be so dense, it will be so thick, because the molecules, separated from each other, move faster. Therefore, the ball will travel more easily in that fine air, even if it reaches higher. As such, the hot air makes it possible to hit a beautiful ‘home run’. If you go online, you will have the graphs of that research at your disposal. There, you will clearly see the density of the air in many stadiums every time a ‘home run’ was hit. Rather than curiosity, a warning. Do the math, if the temperature rises by one degree, the chance of getting a decisive home run increases by 1.8%… Great if you’re a fan of the winning team. Worrying if you care about the climate.
The other issue concerns the Earth, the ice giants we used to consider eternal, and Time, which seems to have no end. Due to the heat, ice floes and glaciers are melting. This thawing has changed the behavior of the inner core of the Earth, because the weight balance has changed. Why? Because the ice, having turned into water, did not move to places until now. Therefore, we are losing the counterweight that the polar ice did. What does that mean? That there is nothing that will slow down the speed of the Earth. Well, it spins faster. Indeed, from 2018 to today, the paradigm of planetary motion has been profoundly transformed, taking scientists by surprise. The earth has gained a greater speed, in less time. As it is, the days are running short. According to frank researchers, by 2026, the year will lose a second. The current question is: how will we measure seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months in the future? Will they disappear into the black holes of the universe?
Maybe they haven’t discussed these matters in Baku. These are the signs, discharge. In the stadiums that we will use in the following calendars.
