up next it's time for truth or fake Catalina marand Abu is here in studio Catalina you're going back to our main story this evening hurricane Milton and some of the conspiracy theories that are circulating online claiming that the US government is using certain geoengineering Technologies to control the weather what's that all about some users mainly prot Trump users online that is claim that the government government is using technology to manipulate weather patterns and storms as this user claims I grew up in the Gulf of Mexico been watching storms since I was a young boy I
have never seen a storm start here in the Gulf of Mexico and go east in this posting over 6 million times onx as others such as Republican congresswoman Marie Taylor green seems to have an explanation for this uh in this posting over 5 million times on X she says yes they referring to the government can control the weather here is Obama CIA director John Brennan talking about it she adds this video where John Brennan is referring to What's called the implementation of geoengineering so let's take a look at the video here I've summarized the important
bits for you where we hear him mentioning Sai technology which stands for stratospheric aerosol injection that could help reverse the warming effects of global climate change where uh John Brennan is allegedly in this video admitting to the implementation of a plan to use geoengineering technology to control weather what information do we have then in regard to these claims about climate changing Technologies Catalina well Sharon these are actually misleading narratives recurrent every time there is a climate disaster as for this post post claiming that there was has never been a storm that start in the Gulf
of Mexico we have proof otherwise in 2021 for example uh there was cyclon Cadet that started in the Gulf of Mexico to then head West as you can see in the map uh then back in September there was also tropical storm Fran scene and finally back in July even storm Barrel so many other storms at least three we have that began in the Gulf of Mexico besides Milton then this video that a republican congresswoman Margie Taylor green posted is out of context uh there are actually no credible reports that the CIA director ever announced plans
to uh Implement geoengineering technology to change weather patterns this video actually shows a a general discussion on the topic of geoengineering uh from a 2016 conference however they're not discussing the implementation of such Technologies additionally sa the technology they mention are is still being developed and studied and have implemented slowly could have a significant geopolitical impact according to MIT who say that that this technology could benefit some regions at the expense of others uh nevertheless a widely implemented uh modification weather modification technology is cloud seeding you may have heard of it before this involves manipulating
existing clouds to help produce more rain uh technology that that is used in over 50 countries including the US China Switzerland and more famously in Dubai when there was widespread speculation that cloud seeding technology was behind the major floods that hit the city back in April finally a lot of misinformation as well online regarding the government's response to Hurricane Helen let's clarify some of that as well katalina in the week since hurricane hel Helen hit some parts of the US misinformation about the government's response has been spreading on social media especially Amplified by former president
Donald Trump and his allies the first major claim uh Trump says that camela Harris has stolen and spent all her female money billions he says billions of dollars of FEMA money to give it to illegal immigrants for housing the second major claim is that Kamala Harris announced that hurricane victims are only getting $750 from FEMA so following these fake claims as our business editor very well said as there were so many FEMA did set up a factchecking page on their website to clarify this misinformation as to the $750 uh claim they say uh that this
is obviously lacking evidence since fima says that this is what hurricane victims receive as an upfront payment to help cover cost of food water and other emergency supplies and following this initial payment they can receive more funds following an assessment then regarding the claim that FEMA funds have been diverted to give to immigrants uh FEMA clarifies that 640 million in funds have been set aside for migrant assistant for the 224 uh fiscal year however they also deny claims that FEMA the FEMA disaster response funds have been diverted to support migrants or border related issues so
two different budgets for very two different things one is for migrants one is for disaster relief funds however in 2019 When Donald Trump was President money was diverted from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund about uh 38 million uh to give to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ironic enough Catalina thank you so much for clarifying all of that for us do stay with us we'll be right back with more world news
