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) case of Japanese, Bantu languages such as Swahili, and Polynesian languages such as Hawaiian and Māori. Examples are Japanese () 'blue/green', Swahili 'to purify', and Hawaiian 'to rise up', all of which are three syllables. Many languages disallow or restrict hiatus, avoiding it either by deleting or assimilating the vowel, or by adding an extra consonant. A glottal stop or a glide may be added between vowels (epenthesis) to prevent hiatus. Some non-rhotic dialects of English insert to avoid hiatus after non-high word-final (or occasionally morpheme-final) vowels, although prescriptive guides for Received Pronunciation discourage this. In Greek and Latin poetry,