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Propaganda Buster · Issue 002

Summer heat and model spin

This edition checks a misquoted UK temperature record, a HAARP weather-control allegation, an aerosol study framed as replacing CO₂, and a false claim that the IPCC admitted its scenarios were wrong.

Propaganda Buster Issue 002 cover dated August 7, 2026, introducing four climate claims with recreated attributed-text treatments.
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Issue 002
Claims checked
4
Scientific sources linked
13
Publication status
Published
How this visual issue works

Every claim is followed by the evidence that checks it.

The opening slide introduces the series and this issue. Slides 2, 4, 6, and 8 show the four claims with source provenance; slides 3, 5, 7, and 9 summarize what scientific evidence shows. Slide 10 directs readers to the complete record.

Issue 002 · August 7, 2026

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Format
10 square slides
Structure
4 claim-and-evidence pairs
Scientific record
13 linked sources
Status
Published
Propaganda Buster Issue 002 cover dated August 7, 2026, introducing four climate claims with recreated attributed-text treatments.Slide 01 · Meet Propaganda Buster and the four claims examined in this issueRecreated attributed quote presenting the false claim that one UK heat comparison with 1976 disproves global warming.Slide 02 · Claim: June 26, 2026 was the UK's hottest day since 1976, therefore global warming…Met Office and IPCC evidence showing a verified 38.0 degree Celsius June record, a higher 2022 all-time record, and the long-term warming trend.Slide 03 · What the evidence shows: The UK's all-time record is 40.3°C from July 2022. The Met Office verified 38.0°C…Recreated attributed excerpt presenting the false allegation that HAARP activity caused the June 2026 UK heat.Slide 04 · Claim: RAF and US Air Force HAARP activity caused the June 2026 UK heat.HAARP, NASA, and peer-reviewed evidence showing ionospheric research occurs far above the troposphere where weather develops.Slide 05 · What the evidence shows: HAARP transmits radio waves into the ionosphere far above the troposphere where…Recreated attributed quote presenting the misleading claim that cleaner air rather than carbon dioxide is driving rising temperatures.Slide 06 · Claim: Cleaner air, not CO₂, is driving Europe's heat, and net-zero policy is…Peer-reviewed and IPCC evidence explaining that reduced aerosol cooling can reveal warming while greenhouse gases remain the dominant driver.Slide 07 · What the evidence shows: Reducing sulfate pollution removes some regional cooling and can add to European…Recreated attributed quote presenting the misleading claim that the IPCC admitted the RCP8.5 scenario and climate models were wrong.Slide 08 · Claim: The IPCC admitted that its RCP8.5 climate projections were wrong.IPCC, WCRP, and peer-reviewed evidence explaining that scenarios are conditional pathways and updating them is not a model failure.Slide 09 · What the evidence shows: The IPCC said the cited ScenarioMIP study was WCRP research, not an IPCC…Closing Issue 002 slide directing readers to AffectClimateChange.com/Buster/002 for the complete evidence, provenance, and corrections record.Slide 10 · Sources, methodology, and where to read the complete fact checks
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01 False — Record Misstated

June 26, 2026 was the UK's hottest day since 1976, therefore global warming is a lie.

The UK's all-time record is 40.3°C from July 2022. The Met Office verified 38.0°C at Lingwood on June 26, 2026 as a new June record, and one day cannot overturn the long-term warming trend.
Case
PB-002-01
Source specimen
X
Science sources
3 directly linked
 02 False

RAF and US Air Force HAARP activity caused the June 2026 UK heat.

HAARP transmits radio waves into the ionosphere far above the troposphere where weather develops. Neither the facility's physics nor controlled experiments provide a mechanism or evidence for creating a surface heatwave.
Case
PB-002-02
Source specimen
Facebook, preserved by MediaVault
Science sources
3 directly linked
 03 Misleading — Real Aerosol Effect, False Replacement

Cleaner air, not CO₂, is driving Europe's heat, and net-zero policy is making temperatures rise.

Reducing sulfate pollution removes some regional cooling and can add to European summer warming. The cited research does not show that CO₂ stopped driving warming or that net-zero policy caused the heat.
Case
PB-002-03
Source specimen
X
Science sources
3 directly linked
 04 Misleading — Scenario Update Misrepresented

The IPCC admitted that its RCP8.5 climate projections were wrong.

The IPCC said the cited ScenarioMIP study was WCRP research, not an IPCC admission. Emissions scenarios are conditional inputs, and revising their plausibility does not show that climate models failed.
Case
PB-002-04
Source specimen
Truth Social
Science sources
4 directly linked