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 (linguistics) hiatus is generally avoided, though it does occur in many authors under certain rules with varying degrees of poetic licence. Hiatus may be avoided by elision of a final vowel, occasionally "prodelision" (elision of initial vowel) and synizesis (pronunciation of two vowels as one without change in writing). In Sanskrit, most instances of hiatus are created by the process of sandhi, as in from or from . In Dutch and French, the second of two vowels in hiatus is marked with a diaeresis (or ). This usage is occasionally seen in English (examples include "coöperate", "daïs" and "reëlect"), but it