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Biologist debunks dangerous hurricane conspiracy theory: 'It's decades of research'

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A wildlife biologist, Julia , took to TikTok to debunk misinformation about the cause of increasingly intense hurricanes.

The conspiracy theory was that humans control the weather through cloud seeding, a technique that manipulates existing clouds to help produce more rain.

According to Julia , hurricanes need a few ingredients: high water temperatures reaching higher than 27 degrees Celsius .

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