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The
climate catastrophe
that has struck southern
Brazil
, killing more than a hundred people, has also spawned a spate of bizarre and baseless conspiracy theories. Several of these have gone viral on social media.
"What's happening in
Rio Grande do Sul
is definitely not natural," one woman said on X. "Let's open our eyes!" She blamed something called
HAARP
-- the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program -- a US project that studies the ionosphere using huge antennas in Alaska.
Other people have posted images of airplanes crisscrossing the skies over Brazil's hard-hit state of Rio Grande do Sul, saying the trails of condensation left by jets contain
toxic chemicals
as part of a secret and nefarious
governmental programme
, orchestrating "planned tragedies" for murky motives.
