This tweet has been retweeted over 15,000 times since August 3rd:
https://twitter.com/arturaskerelis/status/1025571578178940928
That tweet alarmed many:
Whoa. https://t.co/JstGstidpP
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) August 6, 2018
Go #Vegan.
Before it's too late.#climatechangehttps://t.co/k6iUkF0D4P— Harry Frasier Ⓥ (@FrasierHarry) August 6, 2018
Quite a picture… https://t.co/9fNN4v9QDU
— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) August 5, 2018
California is on fire. This picture is incredible. https://t.co/65pe26OPJ3
— Kevin Fliess (@kevinfliess) August 5, 2018
Its hell on earth and the city’s on fire… https://t.co/AvgWaX23AZ
— ray (@_SayRayy) August 6, 2018
Lets not confuse this for beauty. We've been tearing the environment a new one its gonna be chaos. https://t.co/Etx9za2aCR
— Lucky (@OpSavagery) August 6, 2018
Just one problem: Meteorologists and other scientists are calling BS on what the photo purports to show:
This is woefully dishonest. This was taken from a C-17 ~40 min from Oahu, not CA (and not by Peter Singer). The glow is from a sun angle below the horizontal plane illuminating shallow altocumulus clouds. Not fires. Not lava. Thankfully I don't believe everything on the twitters. https://t.co/OLFKFrzioI
— Michael Lowry (@MichaelRLowry) August 6, 2018
Not from the fires, and not taken by Peter Singer. It's a sunset photo taken by Nathan Province, from a C-17 flying over Hawaii, back in July.
Real photo, false caption and incorrect credit given. But, people will retweet anything on the https://t.co/zhBuaEriyK. https://t.co/mAh5VEBFql
— Becks DePo (@wx_becks) August 5, 2018
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Guys, this is not clouds over the California fires. It's a freaking sunset.
Echoing all the annoyed mets on my Twitter feed here.@wx_becks: "It's a sunset photo taken by Nathan Province, from a C-17 flying over Hawaii, back in July." https://t.co/UUpKzr5Q85— Dr Janine Krippner (@janinekrippner) August 6, 2018
Glad that got cleared up. Now if so many of the people retweeting it could be made aware.
On point. Beautiful picture, falsely given credit and caption. The things people will do for attention these days. https://t.co/xFMYXs42sV
— Joey M. Marino (@WxJmar93) August 6, 2018
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