Something about this story compelled me to include it.

The Pakistan Daily Times Reports that deaths in China from lightning are up over 65% over last year.  Guess where they place the blame for this climate-related (but frequently human-behavior-caused) phenomenon.  What did your mother tell you about being outside in a thunderstorm?

Lightning has killed 499 people in China so far this year, nearly 200 more than in the same period last year, and the country’s top meteorologist blamed recent extreme weather on global warming.

All of the victims were villagers and 79 percent were working in the fields when they were struck, the official Xinhua news agency said Friday. About two-thirds died between late June and mid-August...

So, about 350 villagers were struck by lightning in the space of the seven weeks during harvest time.  I guess it's too much to ask people to stay inside during the critical period when they're earning their livelihoods for what is probably less than a one-in-a-million shot of getting hit.  Still, the sheer vastness of the country's rural population means that nearly as many Chinese peasants were killed by lightning (500) as numbers of coalition soldiers died in Iraq so far this year (750).