Scientists agree that carbon emissions are to blame for global warming, but social media posts claim humans are engineering severe storms and heatwaves. This is false; experts say existing weather modification technology cannot be used to deliberately manipulate the climate.

"The climate around is you being altered, affected, manipulated and changed to drive certain agendas," says a November 17, 2022 post on Instagram.

The post repeats the common conspiracy theory that weather is being modified by technology such as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) research station in Alaska and airplanes spraying chemicals into the atmosphere.

"#CloudSeeding #WeatherModification and #Chemtrails are real... The climate is changing BECAUSE of the operations being pushed by the government. It's all about #Depopulation and trying to get people to accept the #GreenNewDeal," the Instagram post says, referring to a progressive climate proposal in the US.

"Heat waves, droughts, tornados, storms, floods, whatever they want to do, they can do it with the technology they currently possess. It's all #GeoEngineering."

Similar claims are common on Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. AFP has previously fact-checked posts about HAARP and chemtrails in Finnish, French and Serbian.

But experts consulted by AFP say the assertions are unfounded.

"Heatwaves, droughts, storms and floods are all caused by a variety of different conditions in the atmosphere and are often the result of the...

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