This tweet reportedly shows video evidence of geo-engineering operations in order to allegedly accelerate “the climate change agenda” as stated in the tweet’s text. The same claim is replicated in tweets published here and here, with all the tweets alleging that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is behind the claimed geo-engineering efforts.
Background
The HAARP project, based on information on its website, is aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere. It was initially under the United States Air Force before it was transferred to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Verification
A reverse search of the keyframes in the video reveals that it was first shared here on April 10, 2013, in a different context. The Boeing 747 aircraft in the original context the video was initially shared, is described as a firefighting plane aimed at combating forest fires. The massive quantity of white matter dropping from the plane is water, not geoengineering substances as claimed.
Piga Firimbi could also trace some of the keyframes back to images published in an article on the Aerocorner news website, which publishes news regarding aviation and aircraft. The article also showcases the features of a Boeing 747. See screengrab below.
Additionally, HAARP on its website also clarifies that the program cannot manipulate the weather. “No. Radio waves in the frequency ranges that HAARP transmits are not absorbed in either the troposphere or the stratosphere—the two levels of the atmosphere that produce Earth’s weather,” the passage reads, “Since there is no interaction, there is no way to control the weather.”
Speaking to Reuters, Jessica Matthews, HAARP program manager at the University of Alaska Fairbanks clarified that the program cannot create or amplify natural disasters.
“The research equipment at the HAARP site cannot create or amplify natural disasters,” Jessica Matthews said.
This claim was also previously debunked here. As well as here by the France24 Observers team in 2017.
Verdict
Claims that the HAARP Project is causing climate change and earthquakes are FALSE.
This fact-check was produced by Africa Uncensored with support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck, the International Fact-Checking Network, and the African Fact-Checking Alliance network.
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