FAKE NEWS: The recent extreme heat has been artificially generated

A Romanian man (L) cools off on one of the hottest days of June by sitting inside a water-spraying device installed in the city centre in Bucharest, Romania, 30 June 2026.
© EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT   |   A Romanian man (L) cools off on one of the hottest days of June by sitting inside a water-spraying device installed in the city centre in Bucharest, Romania, 30 June 2026.

Conspiracy theories claim that the increasingly high summer temperatures are artificially induced by 5G technology, HAARP, or radar installations.

NEWS: Everyone needs to be aware. This is not a heat wave. This is not a solar flare. What is burning your skin right now is the activation of the layer of metallic nanoparticles that has been sprayed into the sky for decades.

Here is the truth about why the heat is so unbearable. The sky is not empty. It is loaded with metal. For decades, planes have been spraying aerosols containing nanoparticles of aluminium, barium, strontium, silver iodide, and graphene oxide. They call it “chemtrails,” “geoengineering,” or “climate intervention.” The reality is that our atmosphere has been transformed into a giant conductive plasma antenna.

These particles do not fall onto Earth immediately. They are designed to remain suspended in the lower atmosphere for weeks or even months, forming a layer of metallic dust hanging kilometres above us. Normally, it’s diffuse. But when a high-energy event strikes, this layer ignites. It’s not a solar flare. It’s an eruption of nanoparticles. When people say “the sun feels stronger,” they’re wrong. The sun hasn’t changed. What has changed is the atmosphere’s reaction to it. Metal particles conduct electricity. When struck by specific frequencies from ground-based phased-array systems (5G, HAARP, radar installations), they become excited and begin to oscillate.

NARRATIVE: High summer temperatures are intentionally caused by 5G technology, HAARP, or radar.

PURPOSE: To promote conspiracy theories and validate one’s own discourse, to undermine public trust in authorities, and to provoke and amplify social tensions.

A piece of nonsense invented by combining several false narratives

WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: The claims in the post we’re analysing today combine, as conspiracy propaganda has done for years, real phenomena and technologies—heat waves, atmospheric aerosols, solar radiation, 5G, HAARP, etc. —into a conspiracy theory with no scientific basis whatsoever.

As Veridica has already demonstrated, there is no credible evidence that airplanes spray metallic nanoparticles to control the weather. The “chemtrails” theory has been around for over two decades, but no verifiable evidence has been presented to show that the persistent trails left by airplanes are intentional sprays of toxic substances and materials. In reality, the visible trails behind airplanes are “contrails”—condensation trails, that is, ice crystals formed from the water vapor emitted by engines under favourable atmospheric conditions. It is true that, internationally, there is research into various theoretical methods of geoengineering, such as the injection of aerosols into the stratosphere, but these do not explain the current heat waves at all. These are, in fact, caused by a combination of atmospheric circulation, high-pressure systems known as “heat domes,” humidity, and the trend toward global warming documented by numerous meteorological observations.

Similarly, neither 5G technology, nor radar, nor the HAARP system heats the lower atmosphere or produces heat waves. 5G networks use non-ionizing radio waves with extremely low power levels compared to solar energy and, obviously, cannot heat the atmosphere over areas spanning hundreds or thousands of kilometres. If this were possible, the same effect would have to be produced by Wi-Fi networks, radio and TV waves, or satellite communications. The HAARP system, about which Veridica has already debunked a false narrative, studies the ionosphere, located at an altitude of approximately 80–500 km. It is therefore abundantly clear that there is no proven mechanism by which HAARP could selectively heat entire cities or regions, given that heat waves occur in the troposphere, up to approximately 10–15 km above the Earth’s surface.

Nor does the claim that “metal particles focus the Sun’s rays like a lens” have any scientific basis. A lens works because it has a precise shape and a controlled refractive index. A diffuse cloud of suspended particles cannot, therefore, behave like a giant magnifying glass. In fact, atmospheric aerosols tend rather to reflect some of the sunlight and scatter radiation, thereby having a cooling effect on the atmosphere rather than a warming one.

The “burning sensation on the skin” is also not caused by “the heating of nanoparticles”; it is explained by intense solar radiation and high air temperatures, which are strongly influenced by large, heated surfaces of asphalt or concrete. If the skin were covered by a layer of hot nanoparticles dense enough to cause burns, these could be easily detected through physical and chemical analyses; but, surprise! no such evidence exists. Obviously, the claim that “graphene in the body is activated” (an allusion to the false narrative during the COVID-19 pandemic suggesting that mRNA vaccines contain graphene for subsequent remote control of those vaccinated) has no real basis. Graphene is not present in the population’s bodies at the levels claimed, nor are there any proven mechanisms by which 5G signals could “activate” it to produce the listed symptoms. Headaches and dizziness, which are very common during heat waves, are NOT “caused by microwaves,” but rather by dehydration, low blood pressure, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, lack of sleep, etc.; there is no need to invoke the existence of an electromagnetic weapon to explain these symptoms. Finally, “heat domes” are NOT directed-energy weapons either; they are in fact a well-known meteorological phenomenon. A “heat dome” occurs when a persistent high-pressure system compresses the air, preventing cloud formation and promoting the continuous warming of the ground and the air. This mechanism is observed and measured by meteorological services around the world and can be explained by atmospheric models. The explanations accepted by the scientific community for episodes of extreme heat are based on well-studied atmospheric processes and meteorological observations, without requiring the existence of a secret program to “weaponize” the sky.

Conspiracy theorists deny global warming despite the evidence

CONTEXT: Global warming is the phenomenon of a continuous rise in the average temperatures recorded in the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface, as well as in ocean waters. The phenomenon is almost unanimously accepted by scientists and policymakers; while there are various explanations for its causes, the prevailing view is that global warming is due to human activity, particularly the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. Regardless of the cause, global warming has profound effects across a wide range of areas, from impacting human health and even leading to the extinction of certain animal species, to extreme weather events and the melting of glaciers, which causes sea levels to rise. As a result, combating the consequences of global warming and the climate change it causes is one of humanity’s most important priorities, both at the individual level and for various local and international organizations.

However, although the effects of rising global average temperatures are becoming increasingly frequent and easy to observe, climate denialism persists, manifested in part by a veritable “pandemic of disinformation”. The narrative that a hidden global cabal with sinister aims is behind the fight against climate change is by no means new. Over time, Veridica has debunked several such pieces of fake news, such as those claiming that an “eco-dictatorship” will push humanity toward a feudal social system, or that people will be forced to pay just to breathe. Fundamentally, these narratives are rooted in the fear that the fight against climate change will impoverish the population, which will not be able to afford the costs of producing “green” energy. There is also a fear that a strong government-led campaign to combat the effects of global warming could disregard people’s economic freedoms, and that the state would become too powerful in relation to civil society. In recent years, this issue has also been exploited by Russian propaganda to divert public attention from the invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin’s expansionist policies.

The Facebook account that launched the current narrative does not disclose its identity; it was created in August 2023 and, ever since its inception, has been promoting all sorts of outlandish theories about the planet’s origin, its shape, and “alternative science”—discussing, in one instance, male and female electrons, and in another, the treatment of depression, anxiety, insomnia, nervousness, etc. using the sounds of church bells, as well as the now “commonplace” anti-Semitic, anti-vaccine, and anti-establishment narratives, such as those claiming that formal education turns people into slaves of the “globalist elite.”

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