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Ferocious lightning strikes all set to increase globally
2014-11-14 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Ferocious lightning strikes are all set to increase globally, thanks to warming temperatures. New climate models have predicted a 50% increase in lightning strikes across the world during this century as a result of warming temperatures associated with climate change. University of California, Berkeley's climate scientist David Romps and his colleagues looked at predictions of precipitation and cloud buoyancy in 11 different climate models and conclude that their combined effect will generate...
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Lightning May Increase with Global Warming
2014-11-13 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: While severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes typically only hit particular areas of the globe, lightning can strike anywhere. And it does, a lot. A bolt of lightning flashes through the sky and hits the ground somewhere around the world about 100 times every second. That's 8 million lightning strikes in a single day -- yes, you read that right: just one day. Now, a new study finds that lightning strikes could flash through the sky even more often than that as the planet warms, at least over...
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Warming world means a hike in US lightning strikes
2014-11-13 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Golfers beware. Expect more lightning bolts as the world warms up. We already know that climate change is increasing the likelihood of storms, tornadoes and heatwaves. Now, a model of how climate change will affect lightning patterns in the US predicts that for every 1°C of global warming, lightning strikes will increase by 12 per cent. Currently, there are about 25 million lightning strikes each year in the US. These ignite half of the wildfires that break out and kill approximately 100 people...
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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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