But when numerous graphs around the world bump up in synchronization, whose correlations are normally near zero, there is something going on. If these were seismographs the answer would be obvious. If there were a built-in artifact in the electronics (like a common random number seed) that caused a synchronization at a later time it would be easy to understand. But as far as anyone knows, no prosaic explanation covers this phenomenon. I agree it is worth pursuing and would be negligent not to...
A bump up in a graph doesn't report anything.But when numerous graphs around the world bump up in synchronization, whose correlations are normally near zero, there is something going on.
My point was that no information is reported by the bump in the graph (I'm not denying the bump). After all, what could one conclude from witnessing the bump? That something might happen. Duh. If it doesn't say what, it's uninformative except after the fact, which was my second point.