John Kennedy Embarrassingly Exposes The Weaknesses Of The Dubai Cloud Seeding Study Endorsed By Matt Ridley And Judith Curry
I was going to plough through the paper myself but this saves me the effort. Seriously though, it only took a few minutes for me to find this obvious weakness which I’ve pointed out to them both on X. It astounds me that two obviously very bright, sceptical and extremely well educated people so uncritically endorsed this study without apparently having read it, or worse, they did read it and they missed the glaringly obvious weaknesses when doing so. Once again, I am left wondering what the hell is going on inside people’s heads nowadays. It didn’t used to be this bad, I’m sure.
Here is John Kennedy’s X commentary:
Is this the same John Kennedy who creates the HADSST series? The one I had a comment stream conversation with way back on Bishop Hill?
The same one who averages raw temperature data using absurd assumptions about source uncertainty and tries to pass it off as valid for real world applications?
He may have a point about extrapolation here. But the hypocrisy is astounding.
Wonder if the historic flooding in Dubai might be a consequence. Also, Judith Curry is a brilliant and courageous climate scientist with a long record of accuracy. I ‘I’ll go with her take as the more scientific.