Scientists show that long-term temperature rise is the inevitable consequence of increasing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. The so-called hiatus in global warming will probably make no difference to the world in the long run, according to Australian scientists. Using computer models to take the planetary temperature in 2100, they found that one set of models incorporated the slowdown, but others did not. In the end, the difference was barely significant: less than 0.1?C. The hiatus is a measurable slowdown in the rate of increase in average global temperatures since the turn of the century. But since, under the notorious business-as-usual scenario, average planetary temperatures in 2100 will be a predicted 5?C higher than at the start of the Industrial Revolution around 200 years ago, the conclusion is that the slowdown is fleeting.

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