The Global Warming crowd has never been shy about predicting gloom and doom – polar icecaps will melt and Austin, Texas will become ocean-front property, etc. Today, the threat is Lightning.
According to an article published today in Science, lightning strikes in the US will increase by 50% by the end of this century – three strikes then for every two strikes now. That means your chance of being struck by lightning go up, too. The current chance of a person being struck by lightning in the USA is 1 in 700,000 over a year, or about 0.0000014%. A 50% increase brings it up over 0.000002%.
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