Newest AGW bomb: "Lightning strikes will get you!!"

[skookerasbil]

Who couldn't have seen this coming??

The US Will See 50 Percent More Lightning Strikes Thanks to Global Warming Mother Jones


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[Old Rocks]

The US Will See 50 Percent More Lightning Strikes Thanks to Global Warming Mother Jones

By now we're familiar with some of the scarier potential impacts of climate change:Floods, fires, stronger hurricanes, violent conflicts. Well, here's a new one to add to your nightmares. Lightning strikes in the continental United States will increase roughly 12 percent for every degree Celsius of global warming, a study published today in Science finds. If warming continues unchecked, that could translate into a 50 percent increase in lightning by the end of the century—three strikes then for every two strikes now. (On average, there are currently about 25 million strikes per year.)

Does this mean an increase your odds of getting struck by lightning? Technically yes, I guess, but I wouldn't worry about that. Instead, the increase matters because lightning strikes are the principle cause of wildfires, which are already predicted to become more severe due to global warming. In one 24-hour period in August,lightning in Northern California started 34 wildfires. The study doesn't make any specific predictions about wildfire activity, but knowing about future lightning conditions is an important part of that equation.

And to those of us on the West Coast, that is a rather important factor. Range and wildfires destroy many millions of dollars here in property every year, more lightning means more fires.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The US Will See 50 Percent More Lightning Strikes Thanks to Global Warming Mother Jones

By now we're familiar with some of the scarier potential impacts of climate change:Floods, fires, stronger hurricanes, violent conflicts. Well, here's a new one to add to your nightmares. Lightning strikes in the continental United States will increase roughly 12 percent for every degree Celsius of global warming, a study published today in Science finds. If warming continues unchecked, that could translate into a 50 percent increase in lightning by the end of the century—three strikes then for every two strikes now. (On average, there are currently about 25 million strikes per year.)

Does this mean an increase your odds of getting struck by lightning? Technically yes, I guess, but I wouldn't worry about that. Instead, the increase matters because lightning strikes are the principle cause of wildfires, which are already predicted to become more severe due to global warming. In one 24-hour period in August,lightning in Northern California started 34 wildfires. The study doesn't make any specific predictions about wildfire activity, but knowing about future lightning conditions is an important part of that equation.

And to those of us on the West Coast, that is a rather important factor. Range and wildfires destroy many millions of dollars here in property every year, more lightning means more fires.

...and we all know that the lab experiment never existed that shows a 120PPM increase in CO2 raising temperature at all, much less by 1 degree

Lighting strikes...because of AGW

LOLz

Morons

 

[Old Rocks]

Oh go peddle your hollow moon, you mewling fool.

 

[Old Rocks]

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The Impact of a 2 × CO2 Climate on Lightning-Caused Fires
ColinPrice and DavidRind
NASA Goddard institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, New York, New York

Abstract

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Future climate change could have significant repercussions for lightning-caused wildfires. Two empirical fire models are presented relating the frequency of lightning fires and the area burned by these fires to the elective precipitation and the frequency of thunderstorm activity. One model deals with the seasonal variations in lightning fires, while the second model deals with the interannual variations of lightning fires. These fire models are then used with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies General Circulation Model to investigate possible changes in fire frequency and area burned in a 2 × CO2 climate. In the United States, the annual mean number of lightning fires increases by 44%, while the area burned increases by 78%. On a global scale, the largest increase in lightning fires can be expected in untouched tropical ecosystems where few natural fires occur today.

Real science from real scientists

 

[Old Rocks]

Increased fire activity at the Triassic Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate-driven floral change Abstract Nature Geoscience

Increased fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate-driven floral change
Claire M. Belcher1, Luke Mander1, Guillermo Rein2, Freddy X. Jervis2, Matthew Haworth1, Stephen P. Hesselbo3, Ian J. Glasspool4 & Jennifer C. McElwain1



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One of the largest mass extinctions of the past 600 million years (Myr) occurred 200Myr ago, at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary. The major floral and faunal turnovers1 have been linked to a marked increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels2, probably resulting from massive volcanism in the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province3, 4. Future climate change predictions suggest that fire activity may increase5, in part because higher global temperatures are thought to increase storminess6, 7. Here we use palaeontological reconstructions of the fossil flora from East Greenland to assess forest flammability along with records of fossil charcoal preserved in the rocks to show that fire activity increased markedly across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary. We find a fivefold increase in the abundance of fossil charcoal in the earliest Jurassic, which we attribute to a climate-driven shift from a prevalence of broad-leaved taxa to a predominantly narrow-leaved assemblage. Our fire calorimetry experiments show that narrow leaf morphologies are more flammable than broad-leaved morphologies. We suggest that the warming associated with increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels favoured a dominance of narrow-leaved plants, which, coupled with more frequent lightening strikes, led to an increase in fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary.

From the geological record.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Morons will believe ANYTHING fed into the AGW Hive Mind

Dog bites will increase because of AGW

Lizards will turn female because of AGW

The Rocky Mountains will become rockier because of AGW

Morons. Gullible, Kool Aid snorting morons.

There's far more real science backing the possibility that the Moon is a hollow, artificial satellite than there is that a 120PPM increase in CO2 will cause an increase in lighting strikes

 

[skookerasbil]

If you are planning on playing baseball, best go out and buy the old standard wodden bats or else your ass is going to get lit up!! Because the AGW community says you will!!!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

If you are planning on playing baseball, best go out and buy the old standard wodden bats or else your ass is going to get lit up!! Because the AGW community says you will!!!

National League Pitchers ERA on the rise....due to AGW

 

[jc456]

it's funny how some fools get new equiment that track these things today that were not tracked 20 years ago and now there's an increase. It's this type of crap that just highlights the lie!!!!

Thank god for all the new computer equipment that makes these fools more aware of what's happened for millions of years.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

If you are planning on playing baseball, best go out and buy the old standard wodden bats or else your ass is going to get lit up!! Because the AGW community says you will!!!

Made it to the train without getting hit by lightning.

Is everyone else OK?

We should have a "was not hit BT lightning today" thread

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[Billy_Bob]

Mother JONES?????? WTF!

That site is totally F-ing whack job left wing propaganda...

Frank you have out done yourself finding that crack pot site.. lines right up with HOTWHOPPER... both nuts and totally clueless..

 

[Old Rocks]

Mother JONES?????? WTF!

That site is totally F-ing whack job left wing propaganda...

Frank you have out done yourself finding that crack pot site.. lines right up with HOTWHOPPER... both nuts and totally clueless..

You stupid fuck, you never read far enough to see the source was the peer reviewed journal, Sceince?

Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming

Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming

1. David M. Romps1,*,
2. Jacob T. Seeley1,
3. David Vollaro2,
4. John Molinari2

+Author Affiliations

1. ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: romps@berkeley.edu

• ABSTRACT
• EDITOR'S SUMMARY

Lightning plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and in the initiation of wildfires, but the impact of global warming on lightning rates is poorly constrained. Here we propose that the lightning flash rate is proportional to the convective available potential energy (CAPE) times the precipitation rate. Using observations, the product of CAPE and precipitation explains 77% of the variance in the time series of total cloud-to-ground lightning flashes over the contiguous United States (CONUS). Storms convert CAPE times precipitated water mass to discharged lightning energy with an efficiency of 1%. When this proxy is applied to 11 climate models, CONUS lightning strikes are predicted to increase 12 ± 5% per degree Celsius of global warming and about 50% over this century.

 

[skookerasbil]

Like Amii Stewart said............"its like thunder.........lightning............."

 

[skookerasbil]

How many of these k00k predictions have been wrong over the last decade of bomb throwing?

Remember about 3 years ago, every AGW clown was talking incessantly about "wildfire fire" frequency getting out of control????

Another con job by the religion...................

Despite Global Warming Wildfire Frequency Does Not Increase


Now its lightning!!!


What will it be next??

 

[skookerasbil]

You know what'll be next?

Vapor trails!!!

They are all over the skies now........nobody knows why. Expect the global warming excuse any time!!!

 

[Roadrunner]

Who couldn't have seen this coming??

The US Will See 50 Percent More Lightning Strikes Thanks to Global Warming Mother Jones


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Great, that will replace all the ozone over the poles that vanished because of deodorants!

 

[skookerasbil]

When superstorm Sandy blew through my area a couple of years ago, every single global warming crusader came out of the woodwork within 24 hours screaming about a global warming link. Its called a hail Mary pass that it will happen again and make them look like genius's. fAiL

 

[skookerasbil]

Lightning

Im still laughing.


Remember about 10 years ago when every single global warming Imam was talking about how we might never see snow again!!!!!! >>>

Top 5 failed snow free and ice free predictions The Daily Caller

More k00k clown loSiNg.

 

[skookerasbil]

Even world famous climate expert Dr Judith Curry, frequently referenced by the climate clowns, now says the climate crusaders are doing it wrong.

In other words...........alarmism is ghey!!!