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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claims to Ongoing government shutdown “Taxpayer-funded” has stopped weather modification experiments” which US government agencies say they were not already involved in.
“One good thing came from this government shutdown…clear skies!” georgia republican wrote Friday at X. “No taxpayer-funded weather modification experiment Americans never asked for it. My Clear Skies Act would ban geoengineering and climate modification. Now there will be no spraying of chemicals in our sky. Now is the time to end this dangerous and unregulated practice!!
American agencies have said continuously They are not involved in large-scale, non-laboratory weather modification experiments, even as such research has become the fixation of conspiracy theorists, who believe that weather modification has caused natural disasters and been spread by the exhaust trails of passing airplanes.
Independent have contacted Green’s Contact the office for more information about the basis of her claims, including any specific ongoing experiments she may report that have been stopped.
“The U.S. Government is not engaging in any type of external testing (for example, small-scale experiments designed to study injection technologies) or large-scale deployment of technologies to modify the amount of solar radiation falling on Earth.” According to the Environmental Protection Agency,
According to the agency, “Current federal research is designed to improve the ability to observe current conditions in the atmosphere and our understanding of the potential physical impacts of solar geoengineering.”
“NOAA does not fund or participate in cloud seeding or other weather modification projects,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency wrote on its website late last year.
“NOAA does not modify the weather, nor does it fund, participate in, or oversee cloud seeding or any other weather modification activities,” the agency said.
Commercial flights, long thought by conspiracy theorists to spread “chemtrails”, continued to operate during the government shutdown, casting further doubt on the basis of Green’s claims.
As of 2024, cloud seeding has been practiced in the US since the mid-1900s, although it is primarily funded at or below the state level. report From the Government Accountability Office. As of last July, cloud seeding programs were active in at least nine, mostly dry western states, where such efforts have been used to increase snowfall and reduce the effects of drought.
Green, who was once famous hatched a conspiracy The theory is that a space laser controlled by a prominent Jewish family caused the California wildfires. outspoken critic Weather modification.
In July, he introduced a bill to ban the practice.
Despite a lack of evidence that the government is involved in such research, or that large-scale climate modification beyond cloud seeding is possible, the Trump administration is reportedly preparing a Department of Health and Human Services task force to investigate climate and weather control, according to an agency memo. Received by KFF Health News,
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, told the outlet that the memo described a series of conspiracies about events that either did not materialize or could not occur with current technologies.
“It’s quite a shocking memo,” he said. “It doesn’t get much more than a tinfoil hat. They actually believe that toxins are being sprayed.”