Nearly three decades on, the chemtrail-HAARP geoengineering conspiracy theory remains popular despite lack of evidence and no scientific basis

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Global weather is controlled by secret geoengineering programs using chemtrails and ionosphere heating facilities.

SOURCE: Facebook users, Facebook

Published: 31 Aug 2023

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Magnetic poles reversals are not cataclysmic events as claimed in the ‘Adam and Eve’ theory discussed on Joe Rogan podcast

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Magnetic poles reversals involve the Earth flipping vertically and momentarily stopping its rotation, causing cataclysmic events during 6 days.

SOURCE: Joe Rogan & Jimmy Corsetti, TikTok & Spotify

Published: 14 Jun 2023

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Temperatures on Earth are increasing and the rise is drastically outpacing previous natural changes in the planet’s climate

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“We have been cooling down for the past 4000 years”; the Earth has cooled since the ‘medieval warming’, “It’s all about when you start the measurements”

SOURCE: Ian Plimer, Media Research Center

Published: 15 May 2023

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The Antarctic’s ice coverage is not increasing to record levels, nor is the continent getting colder, contrary to Curry and Easterbrook claims in CFACT movie

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Antarctic sea-ice extent is increasing to record levels. Antarctica is getting colder; its sea ice and ice cap are not melting

SOURCE: Judith Curry and Don Easterbrook, CFACT

Published: 28 Apr 2023

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The strands of cloud seen behind aeroplanes are trails of condensed water known as contrails, they are not chemtrails as some believe

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Chemtrails contain toxic substances such as barium salts that are 10 thousand times more toxic to your nervous system than lead

SOURCE: William Deagle, Facebook

Published: 06 Apr 2023

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Pre-human changes in climate do not negate contemporary human influence on modern warming, contrary to implication in popular Instagram post

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Climate changed naturally in prehistoric eras, modern climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon

SOURCE: Social media user, Instagram

Published: 23 Jan 2023

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Link between CO2 and Earth’s temperature is well-established, despite claims on Fox News

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Scientists have found no consistent correlation between CO2 and temperature; scientists do not know whether earth will warm or cool in future

SOURCE: Tom Harris , Fox News

Published: 18 Oct 2022

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Scientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan

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“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.

SOURCE: Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience

Published: 11 Oct 2022

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The Epoch Times prints a range of inaccurate and misleading claims about climate change’s impacts and causes

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CO2 is not the cause of our current warming trend; Arctic sea ice has expanded in recent years; Polar bears’ population is growing and is not threatened by climate change; CO2 is good for plant life

SOURCE: Patrick Moore, The Epoch Times

Published: 20 Sep 2022

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Scientific evidence indicates that modern warming is driven by CO2, contrary to Richard Lindzen’s claim

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“Believing CO2 controls the climate is pretty close to believing in magic.”

SOURCE: Richard Lindzen, Climate Change is Crap

Published: 02 Sep 2022

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