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Noa Schumann

Fact check: US military programme not behind Europe's recent heatwaves

Social media posts circulating in recent weeks allege that a US military programme is being used to manipulate the weather, suggesting it is responsible for the heatwaves affecting Europe.

To support the claim, several accounts have shared clips of journalists, scientists, and public figures discussing geoengineering (deliberate, large-scale interventions in Earth's climate system), presenting them as evidence that weather events are being deliberately manipulated.

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