The Thunderbolts Project is running a
Space News from the Electric Universe series, here's the latest one about 'red sprites, blue jets and green elves' i.e. multicoloured spurts of electro-magnetic activity ABOVE thunder clouds lifting off into the upper ionosphere to an altitude of 100km.
Science still doesn't how lightning is formed?
"There is an electrical circuit connecting the Sun and the Earth," so confirms Wal Thornhill of
HoloScience before going on to poo-poo Arthur C Clarke's romantic 'space elevator' as a
"massive (space) lightning rod" i.e. VERY DANGEROUS.