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On 9 September 2017 the web site YourNewsWire.com published an item suggesting that theoretical physicist and CBS News contributor Michio Kaku had said that the recent hurricanes Harvey and Irma were the result of a government research program that shuttered in 2014. The article, titled Top Scientist Tells CBS: HAARP Responsible For Recent Hurricanes, claims that physicist and professor Michio Kaku had confessed that the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, an Alaska-based program created to analyze the ionosphere, which has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories, had created the two deadly hurricanes: The claim quickly spread to several conspiracy blogs, YouTube channels, and Facebook pages in early September 2017. Kaku never said that HAARP was responsible for hurricanes. YouTube videos espousing the conspiracy theory splice together misinformation about HAARP with an interview Kaku did with CBS News in 2013 in which he talked about the possibility of governments one day being able to cause rainfall using lasers and other means. The description of the official video of the CBS interview read: In the video, Kaku also discusses the possibility that governments had manipulated weather in the past to cause or prevent rainstorms, and he calls the evidence inconclusive several times. He said of current efforts to manipulate the weather that there was nothing conclusive ... [but scientists are] bringing in the laws of physics and actually using trillion watt lasers in such experiments. Kaku mentioned hurricanes at the end of a list of future theoretical weather modification applications: We reached out to Kaku, who told us The story is 100% false. Kaku also appeared on CBS in August 2017 to discuss Hurricane Harvey and the science behind hurricanes. He did not at any point say that HAARP had caused hurricanes.
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