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Instagram posts
stated on September 29, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram:

Imágenes en este video son del "Huracan helen en la Florida".

By Maria Briceño • October 4, 2024
Threads posts
stated on July 1, 2024 in una publicación en Threads:

"Huracán Beryl pasado por la isla Canarias todo quedo bajo Agua y Horacio por todo la isla afectada ".

By Maria Briceño • July 3, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on June 11, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram:

Este video de un carro lleno de agua muestra a "Miami inundado".

By Maria Briceño • June 20, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2024 in a post:

"The Earth is warming because of the sun's changing distance from the Earth, not because of carbon emissions."

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 3, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on February 19, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Cloud seeding program connected to recent California storms.

By Jeff Cercone • February 22, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on February 6, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Arson, not climate change, caused Canada’s record 2023 wildfire season.

By Jeff Cercone • February 12, 2024
Jesse Watters
stated on January 31, 2024 in a segment of "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News:

“We think the Earth’s warming” because “we’re literally cooking the books” with flawed temperature data.

By Madison Czopek • February 8, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on December 2, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows “heavy snow and ice has frozen jets in Munich bound for Dubai's global warming conference.”

By Sara Swann • December 8, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on September 26, 2023 in a Facebook post:

1936 in the United States was “much hotter than 2023.”

By Sara Swann • November 3, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on October 26, 2023 in en una publicación en Facebook:

Video muestra “momento cuando el huracán Otis llegó a Acapulco”.

By Maria Briceño • November 2, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on September 25, 2023 in a Facebook post:

The life span of a wind tower generator lasts just three to four years.

By Loreben Tuquero • October 30, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on August 21, 2023 in a video shared on Facebook:

“We have over a million people right now that are under emergency travel restrictions … and this is due to poison being released into the air.”

By Madison Czopek • August 31, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on August 28, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:

“Personas poderosas ricas … pintaron los techos” de sus casas de color azul para que no se dañaran durante los incedios forestales en Maui, Hawai.

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 30, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on August 26, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows the state of “Great Britain now,” with “78,000 people under the water.”

By Loreben Tuquero • August 30, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on August 27, 2023 in an Instagram post:

"America’s C40 cities will ban meat, dairy, new clothes, private cars by 2030.”

By Jeff Cercone • August 29, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on August 14, 2023 in a Facebook post:

FEMA and Red Cross are “confiscating” donations meant for Hawaii wildfire victims.

By Maria Briceño • August 25, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on August 17, 2023 in un video en TikTok:

El incendio forestal en Maui, Hawai, fue provocado por un arma "láser" para crear una nueva ciudad tecnológica.

By Maria Briceño • August 25, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on August 9, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows military planes over Nashville "dispersing materials into the atmosphere" for geoengineering.

By Tom Kertscher • August 23, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on August 9, 2023 in an interview with the Weather Channel:

“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on July 27, 2023 in an Instagram reel:

“13 nations agree to abolish farming in order to save the planet.”

By Sara Swann • August 3, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on July 31, 2023 in a screenshot:

Nicole Schwab said, “Permanent climate lockdowns coming — whether you like it or not.”

By Madison Czopek • August 3, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on July 19, 2023 in an Instagram post:

A wind turbine must “spin continually for over four years just to replace the energy it took to manufacture it.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 28, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on July 11, 2023 in a Facebook post:

"The sand storm headed our way is an attempt by Bill Gates to block out the sun.”

By Jeff Cercone • July 13, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on June 21, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Greta Thunberg said the world would end on June 21, 2023.

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 22, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on June 7, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Recent wildfires put more carbon in the atmosphere than "the human race has put out in the last 100 years."

By Tom Kertscher • June 19, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on June 9, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Smoke that covered New York, New Jersey and Connecticut after the Canadian wildfires “was a planned operation in geoengineering.”

By Tom Kertscher • June 14, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on May 5, 2023 in una publicación de Facebook:

Estas imágenes tomadas "con 100 años de diferencia" muestran que el nivel del mar no ha subido.

By Marta Campabadal Graus • May 30, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on May 15, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“We are about 1 degree Celsius above the coldest it’s been in the last 10,000 years” and “that’s why we shouldn’t be panicking.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 17, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on April 6, 2023 in a post:

"Scientists struggle to understand why Antarctica hasn’t warmed for over 70 years despite rise in CO2."

By Andy Nguyen • April 21, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2023 in a video:

A video proves that “our own government is acknowledging that they’re spraying the skies” with toxic chemicals.

By Jeff Cercone • April 20, 2023

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