No, President Joe Biden did not engineer Hurricane Milton. No, the ice-crystal contrails left behind high-altitude aircraft are not “chemtrails” sprayed by governments to control the weather or manipulate populations. No, state-run cloud seeding did not cause the record floods in Dubai.
Yet claims like these are widespread online and increasingly find their way into political rhetoric. This blurs the distinction between conspiracy theories about weather manipulation and the very real scientific debate over solar geoengineering.
