[1] Ring's methods have been shown to be unscientific and have been widely confirmed as fake and pseudoscience by many real scientists in the fields of meteorology and geology.
[1] He also writes columns for farming and fishing publications and is an on-call weather reporter for Channel 7's Today Tonight show.
[1] He says he has provided forecasts for specific events including the Melbourne Cup, Ellerslie Flower Show and the Auckland Santa Parade.
[20] Ring speaks at various business and media events and has produced long range weather predictions for the Gisborne City Council through to 2020.
[23] Ken replied accusing Brenstrum of bullying and insists he has proof of an 85 percent success rate, to which the editor responded with: "...once you publish a book, you're fair game for public scrutiny of its content and your own competence.
"[23] Retired schoolteacher and amateur astronomer Bill Keir believes Ring makes a genuine attempt at scientific discourse, but either doesn't understand the science or changes it to fit with his own theories.
[27] Ring denies global warming, stating that it is a "politically-motivated power grab by politicians and the far left" and "full of bad science".
[4][36] Another two days later in a Radio Live interview, he told Marcus Lush that "the next one" would be "round about lunchtime on the 20th of March" and that "the South Island is going to be right in the firing line".
[43] Smith added that "the last thing needed by thousands of traumatised people in Canterbury, including elderly and children, is junk science and made-up predictions of future major quakes.
[45] After the widespread death and destruction caused by the earlier earthquakes[46][47] counsellors say his prediction for 20 March terrified "even the most rational" of people.
[51] Scientists contend there is no link with Ring's predictions,[52] and with a quake measuring 5 or higher occurring once every 11 days since 4 September,[51] it was within the range expected in the ongoing aftershock pattern.
[33] New Zealand's TV3 news channel says they have not been able to "find a single scientist, geologist or seismologist which believes in Ken Ring's theories".
– Alison Campbell, March 2011[57]One such example of confirmation bias is a Ring prediction from 2011, which was reported in an article for local Wellington newspaper, the Upper Hutt Leader.
As the last in the series of above-7s was in 1992 we can reasonably expect a 7 mag between 2013 and 2016,"[58] allowing a full four-year window for an earthquake to occur, making the "prediction" useless.