Economics 172, 001 - Spring 2014 Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Full story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/11/13/lightning-expected-to-increase-by-50-percent-with-global-warming/ This video represents lightning strikes across the United States during all of 2011. The graphic images were created by David Romps, UC Berkeley atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of earth and planetary science. The data of lightning strikes was recorded by the National Lightning Detection Network at SUNY-Albany. (The video's soundtrack is NOT related to the research study.) Romps and colleagues predict a 50 percent increase in cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in the contiguous 48 states by 2100 as a result of global warming. Romps, Seeley, Vollaro, and Molinari, "Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming," Science, vol. 346, 2014 http://romps.berkeley.edu http://www.berkeley.edu http://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley http://twitter.com/UCBerkeley http://instagram.com/ucberkeleyofficial https://plus.google.com/+berkeley