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The US Will See 50 Percent More Lightning Strikes, Thanks to Global Warming
motherjones.com ^ | 11/13/2014 | Tim McDonnell

Posted on 11/14/2014 8:05:51 AM PST by rktman

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To: rktman

“...women and minorities struck hardest”.


41 posted on 11/14/2014 8:22:06 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Old Sarge

I like AccuWeather.......


42 posted on 11/14/2014 8:22:49 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: rktman

Hey Tim how can I see lightning when there’s freaking snow everywhere? Melted ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctica. Rising sea levels. Food shortages and famine. Animals such as the polar bear facing extinction. Now increased lightning? And so so. And so on. And so on. These people never give up. They’ll just keep putting out these gloom scenarios on global warming until one of them comes true. By the way, anyone seen Al Gore lately? Is he up kayaking in the “clear and iceless” waters of the Arctic?


43 posted on 11/14/2014 8:23:00 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: rktman

The current polar airmass over much of the US is proof of glow-bull warming. Record cold is a form of alternative warming.


44 posted on 11/14/2014 8:23:47 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: rktman

Actually, we will probably get less lightning strikes using exactly the same [tormented] logic.


45 posted on 11/14/2014 8:24:44 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$)
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To: rktman
"If warming continues unchecked, that could translate into a 50 percent increase in lightning by the end of the century"

TRANSLATION: We just invented a way to detect 50% more lightning strikes.

46 posted on 11/14/2014 8:24:54 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Every driver with a "Ready For Hillary" bumper sticker had to scrape off an "Obama 12" sticker)
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To: demshateGod

Only Dems are you know, stupid enough to believe their lies.

Pray America is waking


47 posted on 11/14/2014 8:25:07 AM PST by bray (Palin/Perry)
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To: Steve_Seattle

There goes Dick Cheney and his weather machine again....


48 posted on 11/14/2014 8:25:34 AM PST by gunnut
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To: rktman

1. WHO can even count the number of lightning strikes each year - everywhere???

2. WHO can hold these numbskull predictors feet to the flame when/if this is not true?


49 posted on 11/14/2014 8:26:01 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: rktman

Delusional tripe... Even for MJ.


50 posted on 11/14/2014 8:28:03 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: rktman

Oh mighty Global Warming, is there nothing you can’t do?


51 posted on 11/14/2014 8:28:12 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Vanders9

Atmospheric nitrogen fixation (lightning) probably contributes some 5– 8% of the total nitrogen fixed.

Fortunately we can add the plant growth benefits of increased CO2.

Add to that the increased benefit of holding off the next ice age and we have a triple winner.


52 posted on 11/14/2014 8:28:26 AM PST by conejo99
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To: rktman

What we should really be doing with this Global Warming crap is fleecing the people who pay for these crap studies. As they saying goes: “If I can use statistics, I can prove anything.”


53 posted on 11/14/2014 8:28:54 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: rktman

Did you know that choosy mothers choose JIF?


54 posted on 11/14/2014 8:31:35 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: rktman

The Global Warming Myth was created to control the STUPID


55 posted on 11/14/2014 8:31:40 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: joethedrummer

There is weather recording equipment that plots and counts lightning strikes.
about three years ago we had several days of tornado warnings. The radar showed the front and clearly identified the dangerous cells. The same radar showed lightning events all over the moving front.


56 posted on 11/14/2014 8:31:54 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: TheConservator
Do even they really believe this shiat when they print it?

Of course not. But they rely on fooling the stupid American voters like Herr Gruber of MIT.

57 posted on 11/14/2014 8:34:34 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: rktman

My view is that there are more lightning strikes, more tornadoes, more hurricanes only because we now have to TECHNOLOGY to “see” each of those events that previously one only saw if they were actually where they were happening. Thus if no one is around to see a lighting strike or a tornado or a hurricane in the middle of the ocean, it, from a human perspective, NEVER HAPPENED.


58 posted on 11/14/2014 8:35:50 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: rktman

Doesn’t this cause the sky to fall?


59 posted on 11/14/2014 8:36:25 AM PST by OLDCU
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To: rktman

I guess Zeus is displeased that we aren’t “doing something” about Global Warming.


60 posted on 11/14/2014 8:36:39 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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