A Jan. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims unnamed actors are artificially creating large-scale, destructive weather events.
“First they aerosolize the sky with nanoparticles, then they ionize the atmosphere using H.A.A.R.P, creating droughts, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, etc.," reads the text in one of the images featured in the post.
Additional images in the post make similar claims about the government having the ability to control the weather.
The Instagram post was liked more than 3,000 times in a week.
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All three elements of this post are wrong. Scientists and pilots confirm there is no evidence that planes are spraying harmful chemicals into the atmosphere. Researchers at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, also known as HAARP, say the technology does not have the ability to manipulate the weather. And meteorologists and climate scientists say large-scale weather events cannot be artificially created.
The top image featured in the first slide of the post shows airplane condensation trails streaking across the sky. Condensation trails, also known as "contrails," are the white streaks of condensed water vapor left in the sky in the wake of an aircraft or rocket.
The text in the image...
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