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
- David M. Romps1,*,
- Jacob T. Seeley1,
- David Vollaro2,
- John Molinari2
+Author Affiliations
- ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: romps@berkeley.edu
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.