Scientific American: ‘Greens Should Stop Claiming More Warming Means More War’

‘One chapter of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published this year, concludes on the basis of the work of Burke et al. that “the effect of climate change on conflict and insecurity has the potential to become a key risk.” But another chapter, written by different authors, examines a […]

Study: ‘The US Will See 50‰ More Lightning Strikes, Thanks to Global Warming’

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/climate-change-means-more-lightning Lightning strikes in the continental United States will increase roughly 12 percent for every degree Celsius of global warming, a study published today in Science finds. If warming continues unchecked, that could translate into a 50 percent increase in lightning by the end of the century—three strikes then for every two strikes now.