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
Names of Germany changed their meaning over the centuries to denote the whole country of Germany and the Germans. In some Celtic languages the word for the English nationality is derived from Saxon, e.g., the Scottish term "Sassenach", the Breton terms "Saoz, Saozon" and the Welsh terms "Sais, Saeson". "Saxon" also led to the "-sex" ending in Wessex, Essex, Sussex, Middlesex, etc., and of course to "Anglo-Saxon". The Slavic exonym "nemets", "nemtsy" derives from Proto-Slavic "němьcь", pl. "němьci", 'the mutes', 'not able (to speak)' (from adjective "němъ" 'mute' and suffix -"ьcь"). It literally means "a mute" and can be also associated with similar