4 yrs ago a @stanford team asserted the pre-vaccine COVID IFR=0.17%
The results are in.
With that IFR, 1.2 million US COVID deaths would imply 690 M infections.
BUT, the vaccine reduces IFR by 60-90%, which implies 1.3 to 2.5 BILLION infections.
HOW DID THEY GET IT SO WRONG?

This paper is... weak, let's say.

Regular cloud seeding started in the area in 2010, so they compare data before and after 2010, ascribing all changes to cloud seeding without any kind of control.

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Can someone explain to me how six cloud-seeding flights within the UAE’s airspace over the last 24 hours caused a large storm that had been forecast a week ago to sweep through a large swathe of the region, from Saudi Arabia into the UAE?

Thought so.

Judith Curry If Victor Venema, God rest his soul, had lived to see this...

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This one is evergreen.

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'Expert credibility in climate change'
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BONUS Chris Martz Chris Colose Martz is just repeating the usual denialist fabrications about Stein et al. 2017.

I doubt he's even read the paper, beyond posting the image he likely got from denialist blogs like NoTricksZone.

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Friends of Science James West CLINTEL.ORG Judith Curry Marcel Crok Andy May Utter rubbish with a similar level of misrepresentation of the scientific literature as clintel.
I will just show a quick comparison between IPCC AR5 temperature projections & Vahrenholt's prediction from the neglected Sun text. Why would you be still promoting this, is beyond me

The hypocrisy is real with Paul Thacker (in his role as the supreme arbiter of how a physician is defined).

He claims only 'licensed' physicians may use the title physician.

In a tweet from 2021, Thacker refers to Meredith Wadman, an unlicensed physician, as a 'physician'.

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Gavin Schmidt's update of that CMIP3 comparison through 2023:

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