Conservative witnesses at a hearing on weather control efforts refuted Republican claims that technologies have been used to trigger or influence deadly floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
But the message didn’t seem to get through to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and some other GOP lawmakers.
“If you even questioned that someone could control the weather, you were labeled a conspiracy theorist or crazy,” said Greene, the chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, at the end of the hearing. “Now they’ve come for full circle around to the point that modifying the weather is how they save the planet from the global warming hoax.”
Greene used the hearing to cast doubt on human-caused climate change and build support for her bill that would ban U.S. weather modification efforts. It came after two consecutive years in which the world has broken warming records and extreme weather — likely worsened by rising temperatures — battered her home state.
