I did some checking around and found that some satellites keep an
accurate track of lightning. This may provide answers to not only
lightning but to worldwide rainfall.

The state of our knowledge of lightning is summarized as 6,000
lightning strikes per minute worldwide.

And we know that lightning is rare during Hurricanes and Monsoons.

This leads me to conclude, based on the assumption that rainfall is
very much an approximate Zero-Net-Sum worldwide, with perhaps a small
variance of a slight and tiny increase to rainfall due to Global
Warming, but that increase is rainfall specifically in the form of
extra rain on coastal areas in the form of hurricanes or monsoons.

The big change due to Global Warming is that rainfall in the interiors
of continents is hugely reduced. And that means overall lightning
worldwide is hugely reduced. So the figure of 6,000 per minute
worldwide, because global warming causes most rainfall to be deposited
on coastal areas results in a worldwide decrease in lightning strikes.

So where we had say 6,000 lightning strikes per minute worldwide in
year 1950, by year 2006 we are having only 3,000 lightning strikes per
minute worldwide.

And where we were having volcanic activity in 1950 yearly on average
putting about 5 cubic kilometers of sulfur dioxide into the upper
atmosphere, by year 2006 we are having on average about 20 cubic
kilometers (my guessestimate).

So the air is connected to the water and all of Earth as one unit of
electricity in motion. So when the electricity of the air is decreased
by global-warming, then the volcanic activity in Earth's crust and
mantle increases.

This is explained as a short in the system, an electrical system and
the interior of Earth thus gets hotter as a short circuit and released
in the form of increased volcanism.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

a_plutonium wrote:


So where we had say 6,000 lightning strikes per minute worldwide in
year 1950, by year 2006 we are having only 3,000 lightning strikes per
minute worldwide.


The 6,000 per minute is a recent figure, so I should not use that for
the year 1950. If my reasoning is correct, then for 1950 the lightning
strikes may have been something like 12,000 lightning strikes per
minute worldwide.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Thomas Palm wrote:
"Edward Green" wrote in
ups.com:

Thomas Palm wrote:

That's something I've never investigated. It sounds plausible (pot
calls kettle black) on the surface -- there's a lot of iron down
there, and you've got some differential heating and some spinning and
some tidal effects and .... viola! Out pops a current!

Actually, it doesn't sound all that plausible.

Do I misunderstand you? You make a fair description of how the Earth's
dynamo generates the magnetic field, so why do you then claim it doesn't
sound plausible?

If you find my "explanation" plausible, then perhaps you must admit it
lacks some details. ;-)