Readers surely recall the Stadium Wave hypothesis for ‘the pause’. Marcia Wyatt (co-author with Judith Curry) writes:
I have built a web site. It started out as just a site with the stadium-wave publications posted. But within the last month, after realizing that many could not access the papers, or were not inclined to tackle the reading, I decided I would try to make the hypothesis more accessible. Much of this revised web-site content focuses on the ‘wave’, explaining it in layperson-friendly terms, giving in-depth discussion in supplementary sections, and describing how the ‘wave’ idea came about and subsequently evolved. In addition, I have posted all related publications on a separate page. And finally, on yet another page of the site, I will post some of my work. This will include: past research related to the development of the stadium-wave concept; a variety of topics in climate and geology; and reviews of current articles. I will try to keep this page new and alive by adding to it regularly.
How she got started in this is even more interesting, like me, she fell into climate later in life:
My undergraduate schooling, followed by occasional excursions into teaching and writing – all revolved around geology. But not climate. I fell into that quite by accident. It came about in the most unlikely way, and long after my undergraduate days. It was a sneaky unfolding of events, starting with a geology book I had been writing off and on for years, back when typewriters and life’s itinerary ensured slow progress. During one of the ‘on’ times, I began a chapter on sedimentary rocks. That laid bare my ignorance. Sedimentary rocks are record keepers of past climate – a topic about which I knew little. One thing led to another. Self-guided study morphed that sedimentary-rock chapter into a 300-page tome on climate. I submitted it to Cambridge University Press. The manuscript went to review. Comments were favorable; yet a collective question resounded: “Who is Marcia Wyatt!” It was a question that changed my life!
Jumping over remaining details of this unlikely journey, here I stand on the other side of that sedimentary-rock chapter, masters and doctorate now in hand. Never could I have predicted or designed this trajectory of events, nor could I have imagined that such good fortune would have placed so many fine and supportive people along it.
My thesis work was on the Stadium-Wave hypothesis.
Read more here on the Stadium Wave: http://www.wyattonearth.net/
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As noted above, Dr Wyatt’s wyattonearth web site has a few design flaws that need fixin’.
First, it’s hard to read. White text on dark grey, small font size, and justified.
At least turn off the justification, please. That makes sentence start and end easier to distinguish.
Second, some non-linked text is underlined. Try bold or italics.
Third, the graph is hard to read, small size and fuzzy lines.
IE and Firefox users can go to the View dropdown in the File Edit View line and turn off the Style or Page Style items. That kills the white-on-grey and justification.
Looks like a lot of work and thorough investigation went into the paper. Thanks.
Those complaining about Marcia Wyatt’s visuals should go to Luboš Motl’s The Reference Frame (well worth the read, by the way) and then thank Marcia for saving your eyes.
Orkneygirl – KrazyGeorge first used the wave during the mid ’70’s at Spartan Stadium during San Jose State football games, the only difference being the two sides of the stands were not physically connected, so it was not a continuous wave that traversed the stadium.
It was great fun to have him lead the cheering for the then ranked Spartans led by Roger Profitt, Kim Bokamper, and others, such Steve DeBerg.
Quite a complicated story. Ockham’s razor would suggest the simplest explanation of the pause is exactly what we see: there is no greenhouse warming and there never was any. Claims of earlier greenhouse warmings are simply due to misidentification by over-eager “climate” scientists.
Congratulations!
It would be wonderful if you could do an interactive interview on said subject matter. You know, talk to the points that produced this whole thing.
It would be doubly wonderful if your associate could participate too. She did a great job a few weeks ago as part of our government process.
This is a good and important thing. Make it the best it can be!
Cheers to you both!
It would be nice if Wyatt-on-earth contained a blog forum for discussion. I couldn’t find one.
Looking at the stadium wavetrain figure its easy to see why there were major ocean-driven climate regime-changes / phase shifts in both the late 30’s and mid 70’s.
Having brought attention for many years to multidecadal oscillations as the most prominent spectral feature in surface temperature records (both instrumented and proxy, as seen at: http://s1188.photobucket.com/user/skygram/media/graph2.jpg) considered over human lifetimes, I’m less than impressed with Wyatt’s “stadium wave” explanation in terms of a Siberian Arctic genesis. There’s no physics, such as a Laplacian specifying the propagation of any such physical wave, to support this explanation. Nor is the notion that a cold (heat-sink) region, rather than a warm (heat-source) region, drives a thermal wave plausible thermodynamically. What Wyatt presents with much fanfare is a purely phenomenological analysis with a gimmicky name. And now there is a web-site. Sound scientific explanations do not depend upon such props.
Try this link:
http://s1188.photobucket.com/user/skygram/media/graph2.jpg.html?filters%5Buser%5D=120945271&filters%5Brecent%5D=1&sort=1&o=1#/user/skygram/media/graph2.jpg.html?filters%5Buser%5D=120945271&filters%5Brecent%5D=1&sort=1&o=1&_suid=139285902635304475330761264672