In other news: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/11/record-heat-despite-a-cold-sun/ http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/11/reco

In other news: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/11/record-heat-despite-a-cold-sun/ http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/11/record... There was a lot of crowing about sunspots a couple years back by Judith Curry et al. The Earth's heating can be explained by reaching a solar maximum! Etc. But now the situation is reversed--the sun is cooling--and despite that we're on track for yet another record year of heating. Third in a row. Her points about model uncertainty and overfitting have some limited level of validity. But it's hard to read her blog and not come away with the accurate takeaway of she'll say whatever she can to provide a cover story for not doing anything about AGW.