The Correlation of Seismic Activity and Recent Global Warming: 2016 Update

1995: An Important Inflection Point in Recent Geophysical History

“…The strong relationship between mid-ocean spreading zone seismic activity (MOSZSA) and global temperatures (GT) has been well-documented [2][3][4][5]. Figure 1 shows MOSZSA (i.e., frequencies of moment magnitude events between 4 and 6) from 1979 through From 1996 to August 2021, the annual frequency has remained significantly elevated from pre-1995 levels, and now stands at 613.9 events per year.…”

Shifting Plates, Shifting Poles, Shifting Paradigms

“…Reasonably reliable estimates of global CO 2 and NMDP movements are also available back to 1850 [10]. The correlations in Table 2 reveal statistically significant relationships between global temperature, CO 2 and NMDP movement from 1850 through 2016. Multiple regression analysis reveals that both CO 2 and NMDP movement are statistically significant predictors of temperature (p<0.05) and, like Figure 2, Figure 3 points to strong upward trends for all three parameters.…”

“…An update through 2016 showed a strengthened correlation (0.814) along with the new knowledge that large upticks in mid-ocean seismic activity for 1995-1996 and 2013-2014 preceded the 1997-1998 and 2015-2016 "Super El Nino" episodes by two years [2]. Unfortunately, neither of these studies has received broad acceptance by the climate community as they challenge an accepted canon of climate science.…”