Emory University Economics professor Caroline Fohlin's arrest video was bad in a vacuum but seeing what precedes it makes it even worse.

Dark times.

Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.

It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

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To be blunter: I don't think the Jewish advocacy organizations are as interested in protecting actual Jewish students as they are in quashing anti-Zionist speech, even if the anti-Zionist speech comes from Jews themselves

Statement of Columbia and Barnard faculty members: 'We condemn... the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest & their arrest by the NYPD....We demand that all Barnard College and Columbia University suspensions & charges be dismissed immediately.'

D'après l'intellectuel israélien Yuval Noah Hariri, c'est la politique raciste du gouvernement de Netanyahu qui représente un danger pour la survie d'Israël. Une opinion radicale, en accès libre dans Haaretz. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

“One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her…In North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.” apnews.com/article/pregna…

'I hope we’re going to return to a predictable regime, but if we keep setting records, then we have to revisit some of our assumptions.'

The Washington Post has a good article featuring Gavin Schmidt, me, Clair Barnes, and Kiswendsida Guigma: washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Israeli strike destroyed IVF embryos in Gaza's largest fertility clinic
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So is there an international criminal investigation under way given that an Ecuador-based company added lead to cinnamon that ended up poisoning American (and other) kids?

'It was eventually determined that the lead was from contaminated cinnamon purchased from a third-party…

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

In short, there's nothing in the paper, not even indirectly via citation, that supports the contention that cloud seeding has any effect on actual rainfall in Dubai.

Not even the reference to a news article is accurate. The news piece is far more circumspect about the efficacy and doesn't mention the stated increase in the first three months of 2020. It's not something you could observe anyway.

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The Kumar Suzuki paper at the start of the para looks at the properties of clouds to assess which are suitable for cloud seeding and does not show success or otherwise of cloud seeding.

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The intro cites a number of papers on rainfall in UAE and includes a reference to Ćurić et al., claiming it showed a 55mm increase in annual rainfall. It's a modelling study looking at the theoretical impact of two cloud seeding compounds.

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The turnaround time for the paper was 22 days from submission to publication. It is in an MDPI journal, famous for the quality of their peer review.