Global warming hiatus Global warming hiatus A global warming hiatus, also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause or a global warming slowdown, is a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures. In the current episode of global warming many such 15-year periods appear in the surface temperature record, along with robust evidence of the long-term warming trend. Such a "hiatus" is shorter than the 30-year periods that climate is classically averaged over. Publicity has surrounded claims of a global warming hiatus during the period 1998–2013. The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the
Hiatus (television) that the show is not pulling its weight in ratings to see how the show performs in reruns before deciding whether or not it deserves another season. A series may be put on hiatus for other reasons. The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike forced several television series (including "Pushing Daisies", "Eli Stone", "Chuck", "The Big Bang Theory", and "Heroes") to go into un-planned hiatus and deferred the scheduled returns of other series such as "24" for an extended period. A show may go on hiatus in reaction to its content: The "Pokémon" anime was put on hiatus in Japan