Also, It seems to me that, we could have read how thunderstorms were becoming less (not more) frequent because of climate change and we wouldn't have been the wiser, given how malleable and politically charged the entire topic has become.
@2 & @4: Laugh now, but don't come crying like Bishop Bickering from "Caddyshack" (1980) should you get zapped later. Climate change is real. Get ready for the water wars.
Remember the rules: if there's more lightning, it's climate change. If there's less lightning, it's climate change. If lightning stays the same ... it's climate change!
Bunch of babies! When I first moved to Seattle from the Washington, D.C. area in 1990, I saw grown men in a Seattle office run around unplugging every appliance and shutting down huge printing presses because a little bit of thunder was heard. It was hilarious to watch the terror on these men's faces! Stay away from the southern part of the U.S., then. Atlanta, GA gets some bad lightning every spring and summer. We had some two nights ago. Twenty-three more days and I am moving back to Washington state. The South can have all that crap weather!
Kind of like the rest of the country has on a continual basis.
Will I need to wear running shoes at all times to escape it as I walk the streets?