"Tornado hurricane patents... Do you get it yet? ... The weather is weaponized and controlled," says text over the video, which shows pages from the two patent filings.
The two documents propose different ways of diverting hurricanes: one by directing sound waves at them and the second by sending jet planes with afterburners to heat up the center of the storm.
"For anyone questioning if they can control hurricanes and tornados, the answer is yes," says the TikTok post's author in a comment on the video.
The clip accumulated more than 12,000 views after being published September 28, 2022. Similar claims have circulated on Instagram and Twitter.
The posts surfaced after Hurricane Ian made landfall in the United States on September 28 as one of the strongest storms to ever hit the country. It killed more than 100 people in Florida and North Carolina and caused billions of dollars of damage.
Scientists say human-caused climate change is making hurricanes more intense and potentially more destructive. But claims that such storms can be controlled are false; the patents cited in the videos were never granted, and the technology proposed in the applications was not developed.
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