Diverse phenomena such as the distribution of earthquakes, price
variations of cotton futures, frequencies of city sizes and so on all follow simple
power laws. Possibly some of the complexities of global warming/climate
change yield to a similar mathematical analysis. In what appears to be deeper
than mere analogy we define weather events to be weatherquakes, just as seismic
events are referred to as earthquakes. We postulate the “Weatherquake
Hypothesis” from which we conclude that the proportion of extreme weather
events among all weather events can be expected to increase as concentrations
of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, increase in the atmosphere.