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Lightning strikes 'more as world warms'
2014-11-13 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Global warming will significantly increase the frequency of lightning strikes, according to US research. The research, published in Science, was carried out with the help of data from a US network of lightning detectors. The teams says they have calculated how much each extra degree in temperature will raise the frequency of lightning. "For every two lightning strikes in 2000, there will be three lightning strikes in 2100," said David Romps, at the University of California, Berkeley. As well...
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Lightning strikes will increase due to climate change
2014-11-13 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Lightning will strike far more frequently in a world under climate change but researchers can still not predict exactly where or when those strikes will occur. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, published on Thursday in the journal Science, found warming conditions would result in 50% more lightning strikes by the end of the century. For every two lightning strikes you had at the beginning of the century, we will have three at the end of the century, said David Romps,...
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Preventing Direct Lightning Strikes
2014-10-29 15:49:00| Power Technology
Protection against direct lightning strikes has been a subject of controversy since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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EU strikes compromise to set new climate target for 2030
2014-10-24 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: European Union leaders struck a deal on a new target to cut carbon emissions out to 2030, calling it a new global standard but leaving critics warning that compromises had undermined the fight against climate change. Talks in Brussels stretched into the small hours of Friday as Poland battled to spare its coal industry and other states tweaked the guideline text on global warming to protect varied economic interests, from nuclear plants and cross-border power lines to farmers whose livestock belch...
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When Disaster Strikes Twice
2014-10-23 18:39:00| Transmission & Distribution World
By Jeff Wadsworth, Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association When a disaster strikes, most people think of firefighters, the Red Cross, search-and-rescue teams and others as first responders to the scene, but many forget a crew that is just as critical the crew made up of linemen. read more
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