The current slowdown in warming is becoming a hot topic among scientists and decision makers. GEWEX and CLIVAR SSG co-chairs have recently added more thoughts in the current debate by publishing their commentaries in the latest issues of Nature Climate Change ("Heat hide and seek", one article by Lisa Goddard and another "No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes" by Sonia Seneviratne et al.) and Nature Geoscience ("Bumpy path to a warmer world", by Martin Visbeck).