Climate Misinformation and Record Floods Worldwide

Headline: Climate Misinformation Overshadows Record Floods Worldwide
Summary:
Recent devastating floods across the globe, from Brazil to Kenya, have sparked a wave of misinformation, with climate skeptics blaming weather modification techniques like cloud seeding rather than acknowledging the role of global warming. Despite record rainfall linked to the natural El Niño cycle and an increase in extreme weather events, false claims about geoengineering have proliferated online. Experts, including scientists from the World Meteorological Organization and Imperial College London, stress that cloud seeding cannot create or trigger large-scale rainfall events and that climate change significantly contributes to these extreme weather patterns. The spread of such misinformation hampers effective communication during crises and reinforces climate change denial, complicating efforts to address the ongoing climate crisis.