Models whose supercooled clouds contain less liquid and more ice tend to have greater cloud coverage. This is surprising given that ice crystals should precipitate more readily and decrease cloud cover. Compensation between increased ice concentrations (which decreases reflectivity) and increased cloud fraction (which increases reflectivity) leads to roughly the same amount of sunlight being reflected by all the different GCMs, and points toward model tuning as a cause. This apparent tuning also affects cloud feedbacks in the models. In "icier" models, the cloud optical depth feedback in regions with abundant mixed-phase clouds is more negative (which makes sense physically), but the cloud amount feedback in the subtropics is also more positive owing to larger decreases in low cloud coverage.  The latter effect appears to be due to the aforementioned tuning between cloud cover and mixed-phase partitioning in the current climate.  Importantly, it suggests that the across-model compensation between subtropical amount feedback and extra-tropical optical depth feedbacks -- which acts to reduce inter-model spread in climate sensitivity – may be an artifact of model tuning.