# @robbie_lockie on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-03T15:50:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Robbie Lockie | Creative Technologist (@robbie_lockie) — https://gondola.cc/robbie_lockie

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I am sitting here watching my feed fill up with people telling me the fires across Europe are being caused by weather modification. 🔥 

They are half right.

We have modified the weather. Not with a transmitter in Alaska. With two centuries of coal, oil and gas, and with a food system built on animals.

Greece had around 60 new fires break out in a single day on 1 August. Spain has lost 186,544 hectares since January, and the Ávila fire is now the largest in the country's recorded history. France has passed 115,000 hectares, a national record. The Met Office forecast has this year at 1.46°C above pre-industrial, the fourth year running above 1.4.

Hotter air pulls moisture out of soil and vegetation. Fuel that used to resist a spark now takes it.

Fossil fuels did most of this. But industrialised animal agriculture is the second engine and it barely gets named. Livestock account for somewhere between 12 and 20 percent of global emissions depending on whether you count grazing land and deforestation. Around 32 percent of all human-caused methane comes from livestock, and methane traps roughly 80 times more heat than CO2 over 20 years. Nitrous oxide from fertiliser and manure is 273 times more warming than CO2 and farming is its dominant human source.

On HAARP: it is a research transmitter that studies the ionosphere, 30 to 600 miles up. Weather forms in the troposphere, far below it. On cloud seeding: it can coax rain out of clouds that already exist. It cannot manufacture a heatwave, a drought or a fire season.

I understand why the conspiracy is appealing. If a machine did this, then nothing you eat or burn matters. That is the whole comfort of 

There is cause to actually be hopeful. Methane leaves the atmosphere in about a decade. Cut it now and the cooling arrives inside our own lifetimes.

Five things that genuinely move the number:

Eat more plants and fewer animals
Switch your home to clean energy
Fly and drive less
Waste less food
Use your vote and your voice

No one is coming to switch it off.

#ClimateChange #AnimalAgriculture #Methane #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis

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climatecrisis, climatechange, wildfires, methane, animalagriculture

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