Talk:Airbending/@comment-24.90.33.87-20120716220755/@comment-5179242-20120717212436

But I don't think airbenders can change the temperature of air. All they really do is control air currents, that's all. And firebenders can still generate lightning because can balance positive and negative ions (how lightning is created in real world), as explained by Iroh.

And just science can't always be used to explain everything in the Avatarverse. You see, sometimes you need to resort to good ol' philosophy. Based on Japanese philosophy, the Four Elements system places lightning in the hands of Fire, because the Japanese did so too.