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
Football (word) which utilize "futbalo" and "football", respectively. These loanwords bear little or no resemblance to the native words for "foot" and "ball". By contrast, some languages have calques of "football": their speakers use equivalent terms that combine their words for "foot" and "ball". An example is the Greek ποδόσφαιρο (podósfero) and the Chinese 足球 (zú qÍu). In German, ""Football"" is a loanword for American football, while the German word "Fußball", a calque of "football" ("Fuß" = "foot", "Ball" = "ball "), means association football. The same goes for Dutch "voetbal" ("voet" = "foot", "bal" = "ball"), Swedish "fotboll" ("fot" = "foot",