"Some social media users also reference geoengineering, which NASA describes as proposed schemes "to reverse or limit climate change by intentional, large-scale manipulation of the Earth's climate."

But "geoengineering could not create or control hurricanes," said Joshua Horton, a senior program fellow studying solar geoengineering at Harvard University.

"It doesn't currently exist, but if it did, geoengineering would be much too imprecise to control weather or weather events like hurricanes," Horton said."

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"Hugh Willoughby, a research professor at Florida International University whose work focuses on hurricanes, said he's not aware of any U.S. programs to revive the hurricane modification project.

He said the idea that the government can control a hurricane is "utter nonsense."

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As 'utter nonsense'... this could make the Republican Party Platform!

"Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms " but political polarization has made them targets online."

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"People are just so far gone, it's honestly making me lose all faith in humanity," says Washington D.C.-based meteorologist Matthew Cappucci, in a phone interview conducted while he was traveling down to Florida for the storm.

"There's so much bad information floating around out there that the good information has become obscured."

Cappucci says that he's noticed an enormous change on social media in the last three months:

"Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish
viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it's making my job much more difficult."