Add lightning to the list of dangers climate modification will likely overdraw . A new study projects that a warmer clime could mean50 percent more lightning strikesin the U.S. in the coming decades .
A warm sky contain more energy , so it makes a lot of sense that vim would then be violently put down as more lightning . What ’s surprising , though , is that it ’s really quite easy to betoken when and where lightning will hit . At the heart of thestudy published today inScienceis a startlingly simple equation that relates tempest free energy and precipitation to lightning hit .
After a team led by David Romps of the UC Berkeley crunch the numbers , they retrieve that lightning work stoppage would increase in frequency by 12 percent for every point Celsius rise in temperature . At our current pace of world warming , that ’s a 50 percentage increase by the end of the 21st century .
Getting hit by lightning is , as conventional wiseness hold , rare , and it ’ll be rare even with the increase . The real danger here is lightning tap that Muriel Spark wildfires , particularly in the American West . We already know that a small rise in global mean temperature can mean all sort of utmost conditions depending on where you are , includinghurricanes , floods , heat energy waves , and , now , lightning ten-strike , too . [ ScienceviaWashington Post ]
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