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'Murdering Meteorologists Won't Stop Hurricanes': Forecaster Flooded With Violent Threats As Weather Conspiracies Spread Online
Conspiracy theorists buying into the idea that recent hurricanes were created by the federal government are now sending death threats to meteorologists just trying to do their jobs.
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'Murdering Meteorologists Won't Stop Hurricanes': Forecaster Flooded With Violent Threats As Weather Conspiracies Spread Online
FEMA's administrator characterized the claims as "frankly ridiculous and just plain false."
Conspiracy theorists buying into the claim that recent hurricanes were created by the federal government are now sending death threats to meteorologists.
The web of misinformation surrounding Hurricanes Helene and Milton has ran rampant, perpetuated by some Republican lawmakers and other high-profile figures. As a result, not only meteorologists are dealing with ensuing threats but relief agencies are also facing obstacles to provide aid to victims of the hurricanes.
"An average hurricane's life cycle burns through the energy of roughly 10,000 nuclear bombs," meteorologist Matthew Cappucci told Rolling Stone. "The idea that we can even influence something like that, never mind direct it, is just so outlandish that it's almost, sadly, funny."
"I've been doing this for 46 years and it's never been like this," said Alabama meteorologist James Spann, elaborating on how he has become "inundated" with messages warning him to "stop lying about the government controlling the weather or else."
Michigan-based meteorologist Katie Nickolaou shared some of the outlandish claims she and her team have received from conspiracy theorists with the Guardian, including allegations that meteorologists and the government somehow created destructive hurricanes and that Category 6 hurricanes exist.
"I have had a bunch of people saying I created and steered the hurricane, there are people assuming we control the weather. I have had to point out that a hurricane has the energy of 10,000 nuclear bombs and we can't hope to control that," she said. "But it's taken a turn to more violent rhetoric, especially with people saying those who created Milton should be killed."
