Examining the most newsworthy climate papers in the last decade (Part 1)...
The most newsworthy paper in 2014 predicted an increase in lightning in the USA due to climate change. Lightning fatalities, injuries, and costs are all down since the publication.
This will be a multiple-part, subscriber-only series in which I investigate the most newsworthy climate papers each year and discuss if the predictions made by these papers, which gained so much media attention, have been observed.
The most newsworthy climate paper of 2014…
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