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
CIA activities in the Philippines does reflect the degree to which the CIA kept watch on the economies of its allies. CIA activities in the Philippines The Central Intelligence Agency has been active in the Philippines almost since the agency's creation. The CIA was founded in 1947 and first played a major role in the Philippines three years later. The presence of U.S. military bases in the Philippines made it highly accessible to the agency. During this time the CIA ran many covert operations in the country, and also employed it as a base to launch actions against other countries. The agency had supply, training,