BBC Trending: Were Valencia's floods engineered weather?

BBC 趋势:巴伦西亚的洪水是造成天气的原因吗?

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-01-08

18 分钟
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The people of Valencia are still trying to come to terms with the events of 29 October - in a matter of hours, the Spanish city was hit by flash floods, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction. But, as news of the floods began circulating on social media, so did rumours about the supposed causes behind the torrential rain. “This is not normal weather”, suggested one tweet seen more than a million times, “This is weather warfare manipulated by HAARP.” Claims that the weather is being manipulated through the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), an atmospheric research programme first developed by the US military, are not new. And yet, as many extreme weather events become more frequent and intense, these lies appear to be finding new audiences. So, what is the truth about HAARP?
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  • On October 29, in just a matter of hours, a year's worth of rain fell in parts of Spain.

  • Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast, was the hardest hit.

  • Flash floods there claimed more than 200 lives.

  • This is the worst natural disaster in Spain's recent history.

  • In their wake, the floods left entire streets caked in stinky, sticky brown mud.

  • Cars thrown together in piles, debris everywhere.

  • Legions of locals do what they can to clear, but it's barely scratching the surface.

  • Meanwhile, on social media, many speculated about the causes of this tragedy.

  • One theory drew a lot of attention.

  • The claim was that a secretive weapon had supposedly been used to manipulate the weather.

  • The paedophilic Western elites have activated the weapons of mass destruction.

  • They launched an electromagnetic pulse to trigger uncontrolled rainfall.

  • Truth is stranger than fiction.

  • Through tweets like these, claims that the Valencia floods had been somehow engineered started spreading.