article_snippet.sent: Statistically, it's pretty unlikely that an 11-year hiatus in warming, like the one we saw at the start of this century, would occur if the underlying human-caused warming was progressing at a rate as fast as the most severe IPCC projections,' Brown said. '
article_snippet.sent: Hiatus periods of 11 years or longer are more likely to occur under a middle-of-the-road scenario.'
article_snippet.sent: Under the IPCC's middle-of-the-road scenario, there was a 70 per cent likelihood that at least one hiatus lasting 11 years or longer would occur between 1993 and 2050, Brown said. '