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Williams suggested that global temperature may be monitored with the Schumann resonances.

The link between Schumann resonance and temperature is lightning flash rate, which increases nonlinearly with temperature.

The nonlinearity of the lightning-to-temperature relation provides a natural amplifier of the temperature changes and makes Schumann resonance a sensitive " thermometer ".

Moreover, the ice particles that are believed to participate in the electrification processes which result in a lightning discharge have an important role in the radiative feedback effects that influence the atmosphere temperature.

Schumann resonances may therefore help us to understand these feedback effects.

A strong link between global lightning and global temperature has not been experimentally confirmed as of 2008.