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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Agency in the United States Federal Government

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Dec 12, 2025
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weather predictions for december 2025 and january

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and reporting summarize the 2025–26 winter outlook as favoring above‑normal temperatures across much of the U.S. East, Southeast, Gulf Coast, Texas, Southwest and Cali...

Nov 21, 2025
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Was Boston once an island?

Boston itself was not historically an island in the sense of being separated from the mainland by permanent open water, but parts of what is now the city and nearby land were once distinct islands or ...

Dec 13, 2025
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Are toxic chem trails beimg deployed over the united states?

Mainstream scientific and government sources, and multiple media analyses, report no verified evidence that the U.S. government or military is running a program that sprays “toxic chemtrails” over the...

Jan 3, 2026

What are the potential consequences of exceeding 0.05% CO2 concentration on global sea levels?

Exceeding 0.05% atmospheric CO2 (500 ppm) would push the planet into a greenhouse state not seen in millions of years and, according to paleo and model-based research, would commit Earth to multi-mete...

Dec 20, 2025

What evidence supports or debunks the chemtrail theory over the United States?

The body of reputable scientific and government reporting finds no evidence that “chemtrails” — persistent aircraft vapor trails deliberately laced with toxic chemicals and sprayed over populations — ...

Nov 23, 2025

Please tell me which maps still show gulf of Mexico

Digital and printed maps still show the label "Gulf of Mexico" widely, but several major online map platforms have adopted or display an alternative label—"Gulf of America"—depending on user location ...

Nov 13, 2025

climate change is caused by the sun

The claim that : satellite records and multiple scientific assessments show no net increase in solar output since the late 1970s while global temperatures have risen sharply, and the observed vertical...

Nov 12, 2025

Key claims made by GeoEngineering Watch

GeoEngineering Watch, led by Dane Wigington, asserts that extensive, covert climate‑engineering programs — often called “chemtrails” — are being deployed globally and are responsible for extreme weath...

Nov 11, 2025

Has the US federal government proposed any geoengineering regulations?

The US federal government has not issued a single, comprehensive proposal to regulate geoengineering; instead, multiple federal agencies are reviewing authorities, funding research, and laying groundw...

Jan 17, 2026

Examples of state-run weather modification programs in the US

State-run weather modification in the United States today is largely a patchwork of cloud‑seeding programs administered by state agencies, local water districts and multi‑county authorities—examples i...

Nov 17, 2025

Has the US government funded geoengineering research in recent years?

Yes — federal agencies and Congress have funded and directed research on geoengineering in recent years. Congress in 2022 directed OSTP with NOAA, NSF and DOE to develop a five‑year plan on “solar and...

Dec 21, 2025

Is man made climate change a hoax?

No — the claim that man-made climate change is a hoax is not supported by the peer‑reviewed scientific record: multiple large literature reviews and major scientific bodies report overwhelming agreeme...

Dec 18, 2025

How do atmospheric scientists explain visible contrails, cloud seeding, and other aircraft-related phenomena often mistaken for chemical spraying?

Visible streaks behind aircraft are overwhelmingly explained by well-studied physics: contrails form when hot, moist exhaust meets very cold air and can persist or spread depending on humidity and win...

Dec 1, 2025

Why did they say Florida would have been underwater already in the 70s?

Many warnings in past decades that “Florida would be underwater” condensed worst‑case projections and dramatic metaphors about sea‑level rise; actual measured sea level along Florida has risen about 7...

Jan 15, 2026

do we have to worry about the sun exploding?

No — Earth does not need to fear the Sun "exploding" in the sense of a supernova anytime soon: stellar models and multiple summaries by astronomers show the Sun lacks the mass to end its life in a sup...

Dec 12, 2025

Chemtrails

The claim that “chemtrails” are chemical or biological agents being secretly sprayed from aircraft is repeatedly described in major reporting and scientific reviews as a long‑debunked conspiracy theor...

Nov 29, 2025

How have gov and scientific bodies responded to public claims about chemtrails since 2020?

Since 2020, scientific bodies and multiple federal agencies have consistently rejected the existence of clandestine “chemtrails,” repeatedly explaining that visible aircraft streaks are contrails comp...

Nov 26, 2025

How long does a magnetic pole reversal take and what signs precede one?

Geoscience literature and agency reporting show that geomagnetic reversals are slow, messy events taking from about a few hundred years in short excursions up to several thousand — most commonly quote...

Nov 7, 2025

More oxygen is created in the sea than in the forests

Scientific literature and major government agencies report that marine photosynthetic organisms—chiefly phytoplankton—are the single largest net producers of oxygen on annual timescales, often estimat...

Dec 21, 2025

Man made climate change is the biggest hoax of all time's

The claim that "man-made climate change is the biggest hoax of all time" does not stand up to the evidence: an overwhelming majority of climate science literature and major scientific bodies conclude ...