Climate misinformation overshadows record floods worldwide

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Climate skeptics are scapegoating a weather modification technique known as cloud seeding to deny the role of global warming in historic floods that have recently devastated countries from Brazil to Kenya.

This photo released by the Brazilian Presidency shows destroyed houses in the Navegantes neighborhood in the municipality of Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on June 6, 2024, following recent floods

But online, claims have repeatedly been made that geoengineering -- not carbon emissions -- is to blame.Robby Starbuck, a conservative American commentator, to his more than 460,000 followers on X in April, after the Gulf city was hit by unprecedented downpours. But scientists say the technique cannot create weather -- nor can it trigger rainfall at the scale observed in countries such as

 

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