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
Word of the year of the Year for promotional purposes. Since 1991, the American Dialect Society (ADS) has designated one or more words or terms to be the "Word of the Year" in the United States The society also chose a "Word of the 1990s" ("web"), "Word of the 20th Century" ("jazz"), "Word of the Past Millennium" ("she"), and "Word of the Decade (2000–2009)" ("google" as a verb). Other candidates for "Word of the Year" have included: In addition to the "Word of the Year", the society also selects words in other categories that vary from year to year: The Australian National Dictionary Centre