{"id":80670,"date":"2018-07-15T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T21:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cargo-ships-may-be-causing-more-lightning"},"modified":"2018-07-15T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T21:02:28","slug":"cargo-ships-may-be-causing-more-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cargo-ships-may-be-causing-more-lightning","title":{"rendered":"Cargo ships may be causing more lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cargo-ships-may-be-causing-more-lightning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When my colleague Professor Tom <a class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gillmarine.com\/\">Gill<\/a> at University of Texas at El Paso alerted me to a recent study noting that cargo ships may be creating more lightning, my first reaction was that I wasn\u2019t surprised at all. Though this may be a surprising finding to many scientists and the public, I have been conducting research for over two decades on how cities affect rainfall, storms, and lightning. As I read the paper, it was apparent to me that some of the same physical processes were at play with the cargo ship \u2014 lightning relationships. So how does a cargo ship create lightning?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/news\/207690\">https:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/news\/207690<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my colleague Professor Tom Gill at University of Texas at El Paso alerted me to a recent study noting that cargo ships may be creating more lightning, my first reaction was that I wasn\u2019t surprised at all. Though this may be a surprising finding to many scientists and the public, I have been conducting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}