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Hurricane Conspiracists Target Greek-American Meteorologist
Greek Reporter ^ | October 11, 2024

Posted on 10/11/2024 1:42:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Greek-American meteorologist Katie Nickolaou revealed that she and her colleagues have received death threats from hurricane conspiracy theorists through social media.

Michigan-based Nickolaou, told The Guardian that she and her colleagues have borne the brunt of much of these conspiracies, having received messages claiming there are category 6 hurricanes, that meteorologists or the government are creating and directing hurricanes and even that scientists should be killed and radar equipment be demolished.

“I’ve never seen a storm garner so much misinformation, we have just been putting out fires of wrong information everywhere,” Nickolaou said.

Conspiracy theorists claim meteorologists control hurricanes

“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. But it’s taken a turn to more violent rhetoric, especially with people saying those who created Milton should be killed.”

One post aimed at Nickolaou said: “Stop the breathing of those that made them and their affiliates.” She responded: “Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes. I can’t believe I just had to type that.”

Grecian Delight supports Greece

“People have called me a plethora of curse words, people telling me to shut up and sit down, people who think it’s OK to take out Doppler radar because they think it is controlling the weather,” Nickolaou told the British newspaper. “It is eating up a lot of work and free time to deal with all of this. It’s very tiring.”

Misinformation about the hurricane

NBC reports that a wide range of misinformation has been spread as Helene and then Milton gathered pace in the Gulf of Mexico, such as claims spread by Donald Trump that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) had run out of cash for hurricane survivors because it has been given to illegal immigrants.

Violent threats have also become common, with posts across TikTok, Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter), alleging that FEMA workers should be beaten or “arrested or shot or hung on sight”.

More outlandishly, several of Trump’s closest allies have baselessly asserted that the federal government is somehow controlling hurricanes. “Hurricane Helene was an ATTACK caused by Weather Manipulation,” claimed a video shared by Michael Flynn, a former national security advisor to Trump.

“Yes they can control the weather,” Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right congresswoman, wrote on X last week. “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” In another X post made on Wednesday, she continued to imply that the hurricanes were part of a political plot.

“Everyone keeps asking, ‘who is they?’” and added that “some of them are listed on NOAA,” referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This steep rise in falsehoods has drawn a sharp response from Joe Biden, who has blamed Trump for an “onslaught of lies” and told the former president to “get a life.”

NBC says that the explosion of misinformation comes just over three weeks before Election Day, with the storms causing some concern over whether people in hard-hit areas will be able to vote.

The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public said in a report published on Wednesday that Milton is set to exacerbate an already muddled situation.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Weather
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; fakenews; hurrican; karlrove; katienickolaou; lyingleftistliars; michigan

1 posted on 10/11/2024 1:42:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t believe them, sorry just has been way to much of this victim mantle crap to take at face value anymore, show receipts or it did jot happen.


2 posted on 10/11/2024 1:45:11 PM PDT by Skwor
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To: nickcarraway; thinden

“Snowflake” is an appropriate name for a TV-weather chick.


3 posted on 10/11/2024 1:47:20 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: nickcarraway
No official government statements declaring that weather can't be controlled duly noted.
4 posted on 10/11/2024 1:47:37 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t tell me, let me guess, a thousand to one that the idiots who believe that the weather is controlled from a console are democrats,,, the defenders of science


5 posted on 10/11/2024 1:47:56 PM PDT by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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To: nickcarraway
https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/isn/4783.htm
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques
6 posted on 10/11/2024 1:52:21 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s a lot of words before they get to the “Trump is spreading misinformation” narrative


7 posted on 10/11/2024 1:53:11 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: californian by choice

Do you remember after Hurricane Katrina, they said Karl Rove had planted nuclear weapons on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to “create” Katrina.


8 posted on 10/11/2024 1:53:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
When was Karl Rove's hurricane manufacturing machine resurrected?
9 posted on 10/11/2024 1:59:54 PM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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To: nickcarraway

There are patents out there that can do exactly what they are saying.


10 posted on 10/11/2024 2:03:27 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: roving

There are perpetual motion machine patents!


11 posted on 10/11/2024 2:11:30 PM PDT by Reily (N)
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To: Reily

Far too many.


12 posted on 10/11/2024 2:12:37 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway
a hurricane has the energy of 10,000 nuclear bombs and we can’t hope to control that.

But yet with enough money, we can control the climate. Right.

13 posted on 10/11/2024 2:18:09 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: Nachoman

Sub contract the job to Destro and his weather dominator.


14 posted on 10/11/2024 2:24:17 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: nickcarraway

Some of these nuts are loose on FR. :)


15 posted on 10/11/2024 2:28:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (Steve Bannon is a political prisoner. Free Steve Bannon!)
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To: nickcarraway
The whole basis of climate change/green energy is that WE CAN change the weather! Are they changing their mind now?

What exactly are they objecting to?

16 posted on 10/11/2024 3:08:58 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: nickcarraway

This is what happens in society when ppl have a way to express their frustrations via the internet. The alternative is to shut down the free flow of information that Americans rely on. Is that what you want to do, Katie? If you can’t handle criticism, then step away from the camera.


17 posted on 10/11/2024 3:44:52 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: nickcarraway

STAY OUT OF OUR BUSSNIESS EUROPEANS!


18 posted on 10/11/2024 3:47:52 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: roving

There are patents out there that can do exactly what they are saying.
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Gates has a number of them. Do you recall not long ago the patents that were taken out before anyone even heard of COVID-19 and the shots that followed Of course, that was just dumb luck by the money grubbing elites. How does it work - first create chaos and then magically come up with an expensive solution.


19 posted on 10/11/2024 5:19:59 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: californian by choice

Yep! Unfortunately, there are conservatives who also believe that idiocy. 🙄


20 posted on 10/11/2024 6:28:52 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, cexist .c)
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