2023-07-04 16:38:19
The fact that the climate catastrophe is leading to a sharp increase in extreme weather events can also be seen from thunderstorms. In the past 40 years, for example, the number of lightning strikes at high altitudes in the Alps has doubled, as atmospheric scientists and statisticians from Innsbruck recently reported Study in the journal “Climate Dynamics” were able to demonstrate impressively. “We were also surprised that this trend is so clearly in line with global changes in the climate system,” says Thorsten Simon.
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