Looks a lot like a prediction to me:http://www.predictweather.com/http://www.predictweather.com/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=306&type=homeThere seemed to be no warnings from our official experts. It was quite clear that something was brewing - tremors were popping since 28 Aug, showing the NZ fault lines getting switched on by the moon as it swept by over the same latitudes every day. This was our prediction for the weekly broadcast we do for Radio Waatea on Friday 3 September, similarly repeated on the Radio B-sport network for the Geoff Thomas Fishing Show the following morning; "you’ll be reading about floods and winds and earthquakes and snow over the next week or so, particularly the South Island ..and this time next week things will start to ease off and we’ll get the aftermath.." Radio Waatea are used to this sort of prior prediction of earthquakes in past years of my being on their programme. During the following week, Marcus Lush on RadioLive graciously congratulated me for getting the prediction out beforehand.
G and Tom are right. That the media should pretend that a guy who uses ancient astrology to predict the weather is a weather expert is like saying witches can predict earthquakes, which incidentally Ring also claims to be able to predict. Funny he didn’t mention the Christchurch one.
Exactly Tom, and the fact that he is reported without question speaks volumes about the scientific illiteracy of journalists in this country.