A lawmaker known for promoting conspiracy theories this week will oversee a review of speculative technologies intended to promote rainfall and limit global warming.
The hearing’s title suggests that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, has already made up her mind about the potential utility of such technologies: “Playing God with the Weather — A Disastrous Forecast.”
The hearing comes after two consecutive years in which the world has broken warming records. In arid areas of the U.S., China and the Middle East, the unrelenting heat has prompted growing interest in cloud seeding.
That has also led to a surge in philanthropic support for research into solar geoengineering, a suite of technologies that seeks to limit the amount of sunlight absorbed by the Earth.
