Posted on 02/28/2023 5:34:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A form of lightning with a knack for sparking wildfires may surge under climate change.
An analysis of satellite data suggests “hot lightning” — strikes that channel electrical charge for an extended period — may be more likely to set landscapes ablaze than more ephemeral flashes, researchers report February 10 in Nature Communications. Each 1 degree Celsius of warming could spur a 10 percent increase in the most incendiary of these Promethean bolts, boosting their flash rate to about four times per second by 2090 — up from nearly three times per second in 2011.
That’s dangerous, warns physicist Francisco Javier Pérez-Invernón of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia in Granada, Spain. “There will be more risk of lightning-ignited wildfires.”
The researchers also probed the repercussions of climate change. They ran computer simulations of the global activity of lightning during 2009 to 2011 and from 2090 to 2095, under a future scenario in which annual greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2080 and then decline.
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Does this mean we’re all gonna die...again???
Somebody been smokin’ da happy smoke. LOL. Lightning has been “incendiary” and starting wildfires from the beginning of time. Glad you folks in the “science community” finally woke up and noticed it.
Sure. That’s how pixie dust works.
More woke BS.......
FJB
What bunk, lighting, all lightning can start a fire, this article make claims with so many qualifiers (may.. could,, etc) as to be a joke, pure alarmist claptrap intended to create existential fear.
These people are just horrible monsters in their desire to cause existential dread for their political narrative to achieve power over others in their dystopian goals.
I never knew electricity could be hot in large amounts. What ever shall we do?
This is my favorite form of modern “journalism.” May and maybe and might and could and other forms of predicting the future, whether tomorrow or in a century’s time. How exciting to contemplate what “may surge.” Or might soar. Or....
Skunks will be skunkier because of climate change.
See? Anyone can do it.
Nikk Ogasa discovered this? Yikes!
As long as it hits Washington DC hardest I’m okay with it.
More likely they’re trying to provide more cover for their geo weapons.
So much Bovine Excrement, so little time
Last time I checked lightning ALWAYS had a knack for sparking wildfires.........but gotta keep that grant money flowing......Heaven forbid physicist Francisco Javier Pérez-Invernón of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia in Granada, Spain should javelin to go get a REAL job in the REAL world.
Unbelievable
Spot on.
We need a kinder, gentler form of lightning.
I didn’t wish to post a reply on this thread.I tried not to. I fought it as long as I could. But I was compelled against my will to do so. Climate change made me do it. Help us Joe!
Every time we eat either cereal or potatoes it should be a reminder that life in the Modern Warm Period is a good time to be alive.
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