Prof. Arthur Viterito

Welcome to the forum here on May 7th. I'm happy to present the results of my research as it relates to global climate change.  

My name is Arthur Viterito, and I'd like to introduce you to some of the research that I’ve been doing on climate change. 

And my most recent paper on the subject has been “1995: An Important Inflection Point in Recent Geophysical History”. And the paper builds upon the previous research I've done linking changes in underwater seismic activity and global temperatures. 

In a 2016 paper titled “The Correlation of Seismic Activity and Recent Global Warming” I established a link between seismic activity along what are called mid-ocean ridges and global temperatures. 

The rationale is that more earthquakes equals more geothermal heat release. This is well-established in the literature. 

And what this does is the release of geothermal heat from the ocean bottom intensifies what is referred to as the thermohaline circulation. 

The net effect is to transport more heat into the Arctic. And what this does is it kicks off a sequence of events that amplifies the warming in the Arctic. We call this the Arctic amplification. And this intensification has been a hallmark feature of the global warming that we have seen recently. 

And the cascading effects lead us to conclude that much of the recent warming is caused by this thermohaline intensification. 

We saw a sudden jump in global temperatures in 1997, two years after, there was a corresponding jump in Mid-Ocean seismic activity. 

We tie in the 1995 jump in Mid-Ocean seismic activity with a number of other geophysical processes.  

What we see here is a correlation graph that looks at this Mid-Ocean seismic activity with global temperatures. 

So, Mid-Ocean seismic activity is referred to as MOSZSA, which stands for mid-ocean spreading zone seismic activity. And GT is the global temperatures. 

And we can see, going back to 1979, that the curves have matched up very, very nicely; they have a very, very high correlation. The correlation is 0.7 and this is statistically significant. 

And this tells us that there is a link between these two phenomena. In putting this together, there was a review of literature from a variety of geophysical specialties to include seismology, marine geology.

We saw a rapid shift in what is called the AMO. Which is called the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillator.

This tracks sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. And we saw that there was an almost instantaneous shift from negative to positive, that is, North Atlantic temperatures suddenly warmed up in 1995. 

We also saw a rapid increase in North Atlantic hurricane activity. And the accumulated energy from these North Atlantic hurricanes, this is called the North Atlantic ACE. 

We saw a significant change in the dynamics and the variability of the El Nino Southern Oscillation and in the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon. These also shifted very rapidly. 

We saw sudden changes in the spring and fall arctic temperatures followed by a large jump in winter temperatures.

We saw sharp sea ice declines in the arctic and the sub-arctic, accelerated ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet and abrupt decline in cloud cover over Greenland during the summer months.

We also saw sudden changes in the rate of movement of what is referred to as the dip pole. It's the northern hemisphere magnetic pole. And finally, we saw a directional shift in Earth's geographic or true North Pole. And we can look at this graphically. 

Arctic temperatures. We see here that the Arctic temperatures suddenly jumped up. This looks at the summer and winter means, and we see that the winter mean jumped up in 1995.

I'm sorry, this one was a little lag. This was in 1997. But we see that the annual means jumped up the black line. We see that in spring and fall.

We see again this rapid change commencing in 1995.

And we also saw a decline in Northern Hemisphere sea ice area. All of this cannot be coincidental. 

There appear to be very strong physical links between the Mid-Ocean seismic activity. And we are going to continue to verify the linkages between this mid-ocean seismic activity and global temps. Going forward, I monitor this on a daily basis. We need to build more data on ocean temperatures at depth. 

Ultimately, the goal of all of this work is to arrive at the truth as to what is happening with global change. I believe that there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation about this. The latest report from the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, I think has done a very, very poor job representing this and ultimately understanding the truth. 

For future plans, I am doing some collaborative work with the Creative Society. We're currently working on database construction. There are a number of databases that need to be constructed and assessed. 

We ultimately strive to get to the truth of things. That is, it's the truth that is always the best disinfectant, as they say. And this is what we need to find out. 

We have to continue, as a society, we need to continue to have these forums. We need to continue to bring together people who have alternative points of view. And we have to make those points of view public. That's the best that we can do.

And now we really do want the truth.