Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has taken her trademark blend of conspiracy theories and performative outrage to new heights — literally. This time, she’s targeting the skies.
Greene has introduced a bill to outlaw “weather modification and geoengineering,” claiming her legislation will protect God’s creation from the meddling hands of Democrats, corporations, and presumably, chemtrail-spraying airplanes. Greene’s bill would make it a felony to inject or disperse chemicals into the atmosphere for any purpose related to altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight. In her mind, it’s a divine crusade to restore the “natural” weather patterns that humans, apparently, have been tampering with.
The bill specifically targets practices like cloud seeding, a decades-old technique used to encourage rainfall in drought-prone areas. For anyone who paid attention in high school science class, cloud seeding involves adding tiny particles, such as silver iodide, to clouds to increase their ability to produce rain or snow. It’s not magic, it’s not dangerous, and it’s certainly not capable of the sweeping, catastrophic weather manipulation Greene seems to believe in.
The timing of Greene’s announcement is no coincidence. Her bill comes on the heels of devastating floods in Texas that left hundreds stranded and caused widespread damage. While most people were focused on relief efforts and discussions about climate resilience, Greene was busy connecting the dots between the floods and her favorite bogeyman: weather modification.
For those unfamiliar, this ties directly into the infamous “chemtrails” conspiracy theory — the idea that the white streaks left behind airplanes are actually chemicals being sprayed into the atmosphere to control the weather or, depending on who you ask, control the population. Scientists have debunked this nonsense more times than they can count, explaining that these trails are just water vapor and soot from jet engines.
But Greene and her supporters aren’t ones to let a little thing like facts get in the way of a good paranoid narrative. Reality doesn’t care about conspiracy theories. The climate is changing, and we need leaders who are willing to tackle that challenge head-on.
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