--- title: Climate Change: Global Warming Will Slow Down, Study Says description: While temperatures have gone up worldwide, they have risen slowly in the past decade and will continue to rise at slow rate for 10 years. canonical: https://time.com/3161971/global-warming-slowdown-climate-change/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-22T20:36:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:49:02.083Z article:section: Science og:title: Climate Change: Global Warming Will Slow Down, Study Says og:description: While temperatures have gone up worldwide, they have risen slowly in the past decade and will continue to rise at slow rate for 10 years. og:url: https://time.com/3161971/global-warming-slowdown-climate-change/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0871dcd393229a6d/6986a0a1f983e74bab04f57c/climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2640 og:image:height: 1485 og:image:alt: California's Drought Becomes Critical og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Climate Change: Global Warming Will Slow Down, Study Says twitter:description: While temperatures have gone up worldwide, they have risen slowly in the past decade and will continue to rise at slow rate for 10 years. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0871dcd393229a6d/6986a0a1f983e74bab04f57c/climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Climate Change Could Happen Slower for the Next Decade, Study Says > Sponsored content. 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George Rose—Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Aug 22, 2014 8:36 PM UTC Temperatures [have risen more slowly](http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28870988) in the past decade than in the previous 50 years and will continue to rise at a somewhat slower rate in the next decade, according to a [new study](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/897), even as climate change continues to raise temperatures to unprecedented levels worldwide. The study, published in the journal _Science_, explained the temporary slowdown in rising temperatures as a potential consequence of the end of a 30-year current cycle in the Atlantic Ocean that pushes heat into the ocean. “In the 21st century, surface warming slowed as more heat moved into deeper oceans,” the study says. Despite this brief respite, the study says temperatures will begin to rise more quickly after the cycle is complete. “Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850,” according to a different [study](http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5%5FSPM%5FFINAL.pdf) published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Trends based on short records are very sensitive to the beginning and end dates and do not in general reflect long-term climate trends,” the IPCC study said, cautioning that the slowdown in global warming does not mean the atmosphere will not continue to heat at a faster rate. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3161971/global-warming-slowdown-climate-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3161971/global-warming-slowdown-climate-change/"},"headline":"Climate Change Could Happen Slower for the Next Decade, Study Says","datePublished":"2014-08-22T20:36:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:49:02.083Z","description":"Atmospheric temperatures are expected to rise slowly in the next decade","url":"https://time.com/3161971/global-warming-slowdown-climate-change/","keywords":["Environment","climate change","global warming","Oceans","study","Science topic","Research","temperature"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0871dcd393229a6d/6986a0a1f983e74bab04f57c/climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0871dcd393229a6d/6986a0a1f983e74bab04f57c/climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"California's Drought Becomes Critical","caption":"California's Drought Becomes Critical","creditText":"George Rose—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/environment/","name":"Environment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3161971/global-warming-slowdown-climate-change/","name":"Climate Change Could Happen Slower for the Next Decade, Study Says"}}]}] ```