In a July X post that reads like a rejected X-Files script, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she would fight “geoengineering,” an imaginary MAGA bogeyman for weather and climate catastrophes like the recent Central Texas flash flood.
Greene’s post read: “I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense.”
She added, “I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months. We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering.”
Science check: Is weather modification real?
This is not normal.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
I want clean air, clean skies, clean rain water, clean ground water, and sun shine just like God created it!!
No person, company, entity, or government should ever be allowed to modify our weather by any means possible!!
Honored to add @timburchett as a…(@RepMTG) July 5, 2025
Sorry, chemtrail believers. While tiny-scale cloud seeding does exist (mostly for snowpack in the Rockies), the sweeping geoengineering plots Greene alludes to remain firmly in the realm of Reddit forums and conspiracy podcasts.
There’s no credible evidence of weather goblins or anyone else controlling weather patterns, and certainly no one altering hurricane strength or flooding rainfall. Scientists across the board stress that hurricanes and other large storms cannot be created artificially.
Meanwhile, Texas drowns
Greene’s weather witch-hunt arrives as Texas reels from one of the deadliest flooding events in state history. The Guadalupe River region and the greater Galveston area saw massive flash floods that killed more than 60 people and displaced thousands. The National Weather Service struggled to provide timely warnings due to limited staffing and communication breakdowns—real problems, not imagined ones.
Greene voted to gut the weather service
MAGA: Defund NOAA!!!
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) July 6, 2025
Democrats: Doing that will harm weather predictions.
MAGA: No, it won't!
* Flash flood kill 27 and leave 20 + missing *
MAGA: WHY DIDN'T NOAA WARN US IN TIME!!!!
Ironically, Greene is not just ignoring the real weather crisis—she helped fuel it. Earlier this year, she supported budget measures championed by Donald Trump that slashed funding for NOAA and the National Weather Service. Axios obtained a document showing the administration eliminated NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and proposed axing all climate, weather, and ocean labs. A recent NPR report said the agency is facing up to 75% research and development cuts under the 2026 budget.
Yes, they fired meteorologists
As NOAA’s funding dried up, buyouts and layoffs followed. Entire teams at the National Hurricane Center and the Storm Prediction Center were quietly gutted. Meteorologist John Morales warned that “crippling cutbacks” now threaten America’s ability to forecast hurricanes and floods. “We’ve lost expertise, satellites, models—everything,” he told NBC Miami.
The imaginary threat vs. the real one
Rather than address this systemic unraveling, Greene’s bill proposes felony charges for weather “tampering”—a solution in search of a problem. Inspired by Florida’s Senate Bill 56, it targets a fantasy threat that no credible scientist supports. It’s as if Congress outlawed dragon-summoning because someone saw a storm cloud shaped like a wyvern.
Conclusion: Fix NOAA, not the sky
Texas doesn’t need protection from mythical geoengineers. It needs functioning weather models, full NWS staffing, and a serious commitment to climate infrastructure. But that would mean voting for science, and Greene seems more interested in punishing clouds than funding the scientists who study them. So until someone spots a sorcerer hurling hailstones over Houston, maybe keep the felony threats aimed at reality.
