A similar frequency analysis of HadSST3, shown in Figure 7, shows that the long term cyclic variation, greater then 100 years, has been severely attenuated.
Can a change (if observed) in these short - term and cyclicvariations explain the existing stabilisation (or weak increasing) of CH4 atmospheric concentration?
Since cyclicterms will be largely unchanged in dT / dt a comparison with the frequency spectrum of the derivative is equally useful in separating secular and cyclicvariations.