The recent wave of hurricanes that devastated the East Coast has sparked several conspiracy theories about their origins.

TikToker TJ Articles (@tj_ware) posted a video to help dispel these claims, explaining that humanity would violate the first law of thermodynamics by creating a hurricane.

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“You can’t get more energy out of a system than you put into it,” he said. “A hurricane releases 600,000 billion watts of energy… 13,000 megatons. This is 250 times more powerful than the most powerful device ever used in the world, namely the Tsar Bomba, a 50 megaton nuclear warhead. »

Ware probably drew the first statistic from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationwhich calculated the total energy released by cloud and rain formation using the average radius of a hurricane and the precipitation it produces in a day. According to the organization, 600 trillion watts is 200 times the world’s electricity generation capacity.

“It undermines the victims and the real things that are happening,” Ware continued before warning viewers against spreading misinformation and false information. “…We shouldn’t do this to each other or to ourselves. It’s ridiculous, and it’s junk science. It doesn’t even make sense.”

The comments section was filled with skeptics, many of whom shared America’s sentiments. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and disputed that the government may not have created the hurricane but rather manipulated it to make it stronger.

Some referenced cloud seedinga geoengineering practice that facilitates the formation of ice crystals to promote precipitation. Many have speculated that this weather modification technique was used to cause intense rain in DubaiUnited Arab Emirates fueled hurricane destruction Helene And Milton.

However, FactCheck.org noted that there is no evidence that cloud seeding can provide the immense energy needed to significantly influence a hurricane.

The nonprofit also had to reject claims that the U.S. government used Alaska’s high-frequency active auroral research program to control the weather — another talking point raised by several commenters on Ware’s video .

As NOAA says, HAARPE is “essentially a large radio transmitter” that “is not capable of influencing local weather on the Earth’s surface, much less tropical cyclones thousands of miles away.”

Other users expressed frustration with the spread of conspiracy theories.

“How sad that you need to explain this,” one person said.

“If we could control the weather like this…I don’t think we’d worry climate change“, assumed another.

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