{"id":14226,"date":"2007-08-17T23:07:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T06:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/17\/lightning-kills-499-in-china-this-year-reuters\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T23:07:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T06:07:53","slug":"lightning-kills-499-in-china-this-year-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/lightning-kills-499-in-china-this-year-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Kills 499 in China This Year &#8211; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/Lightning_China.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/Lightning_China.jpg','popup','width=244,height=162,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/Lightning_China-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"150\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lightning China\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>The number of lightning-related deaths is nearly double what it was this time last year. Via CNN.com:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>All of the victims were villagers, and 79 percent were working in the fields when they were struck, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. About two-thirds died between late June and mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>Large swathes of China have been hit this summer by severe storms and flooding, which have killed hundreds. Other parts have suffered prolonged drought. <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/16\/china.lightning.reut\/\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe article quotes Zheng Guoguang, head of the China Meteorological Association, as blaming this year&#8217;s increase in violent weather on global warming.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n[Image from Javno.com<a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.javno.com\/slike\/slike_3\/r2\/g2007\/m07\/x30144984531957868.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.javno.com\/en\/world\/clanak.php%3Fid%3D65915&amp;h=162&amp;w=244&amp;sz=5&amp;hl=en&amp;start=5&amp;sig2=CXYiybXaoftQZB1TInErvA&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=xFZWqAwWARSe7M:&amp;tbnh=73&amp;tbnw=110&amp;ei=4ovGRvL2FaH-gQPJ_YWpAQ&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3DChina%2Blightning%2Bfiletype:jpg%26imgtype%3Dnews%26as_st%3Dy%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG\"> via Google Image<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of lightning-related deaths is nearly double what it was this time last year. Via CNN.com: All of the victims were villagers, and 79 percent were working in the fields when they were struck, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. About two-thirds died between late June and mid-August. Large swathes of China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[132,6],"tags":[6679,5385,5099],"class_list":["post-14226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-crisis","category-sci-tech","tag-climate-change","tag-extreme-weather","tag-lightning","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lightning Kills 499 in China This Year - Reuters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/lightning-kills-499-in-china-this-year-reuters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lightning Kills 499 in China This Year - Reuters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The number of lightning-related deaths is nearly double what it was this time last year. 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