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Gizmodo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Gizmodo
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Going After ‘Chemtrails' With New Bill to Ban Weather Modification
House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the latest lawmaker to seemingly go after the fictional threat of chemtrails. Over the weekend, Greene stated she will soon introduce a federal bill aimed at banning substances from being injected into the atmosphere. Greene announced the proposed bill in an X post published Saturday. The legislation would reportedly bar chemicals from being released into the air for the 'express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity.' While the bill is apparently a response to the completely not real dangers of chemtrails, it would target actual, potentially important technologies like cloud seeding and other forms of geoengineering. 'We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering,' Greene said in her X post. 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. I have been researching weather… — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 5, 2025For the conspiracy-minded, chemtrails are purportedly the streaky visible remnants of chemicals being poured into the atmosphere by high-flying planes. These chemicals are claimed to be biological weapons developed by the military to sicken people or the toxic byproducts of nefarious scientific experiments, depending on which conspiracy nut you ask. While weather modification is a common theme of chemtrails, concepts like population control are also a regular part of the conspiracy. Conspiracy Theories Flourish as Mystery 'Drones' Spotted Across U.S. Greene doesn't explicitly mention chemtrails in her post about the new legislation. But it's modeled after a similar state bill in Florida (SB-56) that Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law last month (the law bans the airborne release of chemicals intended for geoengineering or weather modification, with a potential third-degree felony charge and fines up to $100,000 for violators). That said, proponents of the Florida law and similar bills in other states have directly referenced chemtrails as a target of their legislative efforts. In reality, what's referred to as chemtrails are actually contrails: the product of condensation that happens when jet fuel exhaust (mostly water vapor and small amounts of soot) mixes with cold, humid air. The only real difference between contrails and naturally formed clouds is that the former are typically made from water crystals, whereas contrails are made from ice crystals. While contrails are falsely labeled chemtrails, geoengineering technologies like cloud seeding are also common bogeymen for the conspiracy-minded. Contrary to what conspiracy theories falsely suggest, these deliberate, large-scale interventions in Earth's climate system aim to mitigate the effects of global warming or to simply alter a region's existing climate. Cloud seeding is just one example. This 80-year-old weather modification technique adds particles—usually silver iodide crystals—to clouds to trigger rain or snow. As rising global temperatures increase the frequency and severity of drought, this technology has emerged as a potential way to replenish dried-up water resources. While it's still in the research-and-development stage, small-scale deployments have shown promise in western U.S. states like Utah, where cloud seeding has managed to boost snowpack by 6% to 12% per year. The practice has increased streamflow by roughly 180,000 to 200,000 acre-feet during the spring melt season, which is more water than the state's entire Deer Creek reservoir can hold. In addition to this, cloud seeding has other practical uses. In Canada, it's often used to reduce hail damage. Some U.S. ski resorts, such as Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Beaver Creek in Colorado, have used cloud seeding to enhance their snow cover. The early successes of these programs have garnered attention from U.S. scientists, but this isn't the only atmospheric geoengineering technology gaining interest. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for example, is researching stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB). Both technologies aim to lower global temperatures by increasing the amount of sunlight reflected back into space. SAI involves dispersing microscopic, light-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, while MCB seeds low-level marine clouds with sea salt particles to increase their reflectivity. Unlike cloud seeding, neither of these techniques has actually been deployed at scale. Still, burgeoning geoengineering research has some lawmakers spooked. A growing number of states are considering bills to ban geoengineering altogether, citing concerns over unknown risks to the environment and human health. While some of these concerns are scientifically legitimate, others are largely based in conspiracy theories. In 2025 alone, at least 22 states have proposed bills that would ban solar geoengineering technologies, including SAI and MCB, according to the organization SRM360. Greene has long dabbled in conspiracies, having previously endorsed QAnon-fueled theories doubting the 2018 Parkland school shooting and the 9/11 attacks (soon after first taking office in 2021, Greene denounced her past QAnon support). So it's not all too surprising that she's now moved onto weather modification. In October 2024, former President Joe Biden personally rebuked Greene after she implied the federal government created the hurricanes that had recently hit Florida at the time. It's unknown whether Greene will have enough support from her fellow congressmen to advance the proposed legislation. But she's hardly the only GOP or Trump official to have jumped aboard the chemtrails train lately. RFK Jr. Goes Full Tinfoil, Pledges to Stop Chemtrails in Latest Dr. Phil Interview In addition to the newly enshrined Florida law, bills targeting geoengineering have been introduced or passed in at least a dozen other states lately, including Louisiana, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. And in April, during a town hall interview hosted by Dr. Phil (full name Phil McGraw), Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reiterated his earlier promise to stop chemtrails at any cost. Chemtrails aren't real, but these sorts of laws advanced by the conspiracy wing of the GOP could certainly cause plenty of actual damage to the development of research and innovations that could help us manage climate change—or even to simply add some snow to ski hills.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
"She'd Be Equally Qualified To Fly A Boeing-737": Meteorologists Are Roasting Marjorie Taylor Greene's Bonkers Weather Conspiracy Bill
It looks like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has her head in the clouds. Related: In a Saturday morning post on X, formerly Twitter, the far-right Republican announced that she was 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.' @RepMTG / Via 'It will be a felony offense,' she said. 'I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill,' the legislator continued, adding that the legislation will be similar to Florida's Senate Bill 56. Related: 'We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering,' she concluded. Though she didn't mention the tragedy directly, the post seemed to be a response to the horrific flash floods, which killed at least 66 people after sweeping through central Texas on Friday. Related: Conspiracy theorists have long claimed that the government or other shadowy organizations have been manipulating the weather by releasing chemicals in the air, leaving white streaks in the sky that they call chemtrails. The Environmental Protection Agency has explained that the cloud-like lines are condensation trails left behind after hot exhaust from aircrafts collides with cold air at high altitudes. More weather manipulation conspiracies have been fueled by the practice of cloud seeding, a way of triggering rain or snow by adding tiny particles into the air. Related: Meteorologist and journalist Matthew Cappucci tried to debunk misinformation online around cloud seeding before calling out Greene for her lack of knowledge. @MatthewCappucci / Via 'It's not a political statement for me as a Harvard-degreed atmospheric scientist to say that elected representative Marjorie Taylor Green doesn't know what the hell she's talking about,' he wrote on X. 'She'd be equally qualified to fly a Boeing-737, practice nuclear medicine or train zebras.' @MatthewCappucci / Via Twitter: @MatthewCappucci This article originally appeared on HuffPost. Also in In the News: Also in In the News: Also in In the News:
Buzz Feed
5 days ago
- Climate
- Buzz Feed
Experts Mock MTG's Controversial Weather Bill
It looks like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has her head in the clouds. In a Saturday morning post on X, formerly Twitter, the far-right Republican announced that she was 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.' 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. I have been researching weather… — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 5, 2025 @RepMTG / Via 'It will be a felony offense,' she said. 'I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill,' the legislator continued, adding that the legislation will be similar to Florida's Senate Bill 56. 'We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering,' she concluded. Though she didn't mention the tragedy directly, the post seemed to be a response to the horrific flash floods, which killed at least 66 people after sweeping through central Texas on Friday. Conspiracy theorists have long claimed that the government or other shadowy organizations have been manipulating the weather by releasing chemicals in the air, leaving white streaks in the sky that they call chemtrails. The Environmental Protection Agency has explained that the cloud-like lines are condensation trails left behind after hot exhaust from aircrafts collides with cold air at high altitudes. More weather manipulation conspiracies have been fueled by the practice of cloud seeding, a way of triggering rain or snow by adding tiny particles into the air. Meteorologist and journalist Matthew Cappucci tried to debunk misinformation online around cloud seeding before calling out Greene for her lack of knowledge. In January, I teamed up with @VICENews to explain why cloud seeding is entirely unrelated to floods. 'Conspiracy theorists don't understand scale,' I explained. That discussion is very relevant tonight. Cloud seeding is for a tiny cloud — not a 4,000,000,000,000 gallon flood. — Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) July 6, 2025 @MatthewCappucci / Via 'It's not a political statement for me as a Harvard-degreed atmospheric scientist to say that elected representative Marjorie Taylor Green doesn't know what the hell she's talking about,' he wrote on X. 'She'd be equally qualified to fly a Boeing-737, practice nuclear medicine or train zebras.' It's not a political statement for me as a Harvard-degreed atmospheric scientist to say that elected representative Marjorie Taylor Green doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. She'd be equally qualified to fly a Boeing-737, practice nuclear medicine or train zebras. — Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) July 5, 2025 @MatthewCappucci / Via
Buzz Feed
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Buzz Feed
MAGA Showdown: MTG Clashes With Fox News Host
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Fox News host Mark Levin got into a social media turf war Monday over which one is the most 'MAGA.' The turf war actually started Sunday night when the controversial Georgia Republican took to X to comment on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran. In her post, Greene declared that 'Everyone is finding out who are real America First/MAGA and who were fake and just said it bc it was popular' and predicted that going to war against Iran would 'quickly engulf the Middle East, BRICS, and NATO.' Everyone is finding out who are real America First/MAGA and who were fake and just said it bc it was popular. Unfortunately the list of fakes are becoming quite long and exposed themselves quickly. Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war… — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 15, 2025 @RepMTG / Via He torched the congresswoman's post Monday with a bitter response that minimized her status: 'Who died and named Marjorie Taylor Greene the queen of MAGA? Trump is MAGA. He received 77 million votes. You're a little known politician from Georgia. Hate to break the news to you. We're Team Trump. Go Trump!' Who died and named Marjorie Taylor Greene the queen of MAGA? Trump is MAGA. He received 77 million votes. You're a little known politician from Georgia. Hate to break the news to you. We're Team Trump. Go Trump! — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) June 16, 2025 @marklevinshow / Via Still, Levin escalated things with MTG by retweeting a post she made in 2023 in which she posed with the leftist protest group CodePink. When MTG (who?) teamed up with Communist China backed Code Pink anti-American Marxists. That's not MAGA. — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) June 16, 2025 @marklevinshow / Via However, it seems as if many MAGA members are more in line with Greene's views. As of Monday afternoon, she hadn't directly responded to Levin's attack posts but did make a more generic attack against 'ALL the Never Trumpers who turned into FAKE America First/MAGA experts after the polls showed Trump winning.' To ALL the Never Trumpers who turned into FAKE America First/MAGA experts after the polls showed Trump winning: Are you demanding America go to war in Nigeria to save God's people from Islamic terrorists too? Or does that only apply to God's people in Israel? — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 16, 2025 @RepMTG / Via Although Greene often gets mocked for her social media posts ― such as the time she criticized a bill she voted for without reading it first ― Levin seemed to get most of the criticism this time around. You have one of the lowest rated shows on fox Moderate banger tweets have more views than any given episode of whatever your show is called. — Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) June 16, 2025 @CassandraRules / Via There is no "we" here. You're a backseat driver who keeps leaning forward, trying to grab the wheel and turn the car off road. — George Alexopoulos (@GPrime85) June 16, 2025 @GPrime85 / Via Mark, I hate to tell you this, but more people know MTG than they know you. As far as Israel, they can defend themselves. They don't need the US for this, nor should we spend billions more on another war. Btw, I am not a hater. I listen to your show all the time. God bless. — The Dibster (@TheDibsterX) June 16, 2025 @TheDibsterX / Via This is a problem with folks on our side. We assume the 77million who voted for Trump are all MAGA. That's no more true than all 77mil being Republican. I often don't agree with MTG but she's definitely MAGA and right on her anti-war position. — Melik Abdul (@MelikAbdul_) June 16, 2025 @MelikAbdul_ / Via
