Video shows coral farm not HAARP research facility around Florida – Full Fact

A video is being shared on social media with false claims it reveals a HAARP analysis facility positioned “completely” off the coast of Florida which was “activated” forward of Hurricane Milton.

Not less than 16 individuals have been killed and tens of millions have been left with out energy after it made landfall in Florida as a Class 3 hurricane.

The video that’s circulating on-line seems to be a recording of somebody utilizing Google Maps or Google Earth to zoom in on an space of the Atlantic Ocean subsequent to Florida. It then masses underwater photos of the seabed, the place frame-like buildings could be seen, together with divers engaged on them. Textual content overlaid on it says: “What’s hiding beneath the water in Florida”.

Captions being shared with the clip on X (previously Twitter) and Fb say: “HAARP is positioned completely proper round Florida. It does appear to be activated as the entire state of Florida appears to be needing to organize for what’s to come back.” 

The video itself seems to originate from TikTok and was first shared on 5 October.

Nevertheless, the world of ocean and equipment that may be seen within the video just isn’t associated to the HAARP mission. Full Truth has matched the positioning recognized within the clip with an space off Key Largo in Florida known as Snapper Ledge Reef. 

The video really depicts an underwater coral nursery, which is certainly one of many across the Florida Keys archipelago geared toward coral restoration in response to coral bleaching. 

Small fragments of staghorn and elkhorn corals are grown on synthetic ‘bushes’ which produce colonies that may be transplanted again into the reef months later.

What’s HAARP, and will it trigger hurricanes?

HAARP, which stands for ‘Excessive-frequency Lively Auroral Analysis Program’, is a high-frequency transmitter which is used to review the ionosphere and the thermosphere, layers of the Earth’s ambiance, starting from round 60 km altitude.

The power’s most important instrument is plenty of antennas unfold throughout 33 acres based mostly in Gakona, Alaska.

These are designed to transmit radio waves into the ionosphere to trigger electrons to maneuver in waves to review how the ionosphere reacts to altering situations. We now have beforehand truth checked false claims that HAARP may cause the Northern Lights and peculiar clouds.

The radio waves from HAARP’s experiments wouldn’t trigger or create hurricanes, which don’t kind in these larger ranges of the ambiance. 

Professor Chris Scott, Professor in House and Atmospherics on the College of Studying instructed Full Indisputable fact that “HAARP just isn’t accountable for inflicting Hurricane Milton or some other kind of storm”.

“The know-how to artificially create storms—particularly Class 5 storms—doesn’t exist. It’s pure science fiction to counsel now we have the technological prowess to develop lethal hurricanes,” he stated by way of electronic mail.

“Hurricanes kind naturally over heat tropical oceans. Rising heat air creates an space of low strain. Surrounding air rushes in, creating wind. The Earth’s rotation causes the system to spin. Because it grows, it feeds on heat ocean water, intensifying wind speeds and forming the attribute spiral construction of a hurricane. A rise within the depth of such storms is predicted to end result from local weather change.”

Dr Ciaran Beggan on the British Geological Society additionally instructed us that HAARP makes use of “tiny” quantities of energy to transmit radio waves into the ambiance, which might be a fraction of that wanted to artificially create a hurricane.

HAARP Director Jessica Matthews stated, in response to a question from Full Truth on whether or not it will possibly have an effect on hurricanes: “The analysis gear on the HAARP facility just isn’t able to producing or amplifying such occasions.”

Throughout vital climate occasions and pure disasters we regularly see misinformation, steadily within the type of miscaptioned movies, being shared on-line. We now have beforehand debunked plenty of false claims about climate manipulation and geoengineering, together with chemtrails theories.