Thunderstruck: what does the future hold for lightning?

Humans have always been awed by the power and beauty of lightning. How does the experience and understanding of it change in a warming world?In a rock shelter in Kakadu national park in the north of Australia is an image of a being the Bininj people call Namarrkon. His flesh bleached away to reveal the bones beneath, he wears stone axes on his head, elbows and knees, and wields a great band of lightning that runs from his ankles up, over his head.Namarrkon’s journey from the Arafura Sea to the