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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarjorie Taylor Greene Launches Unhinged Call for Officials to Manipulate the Weather to Stop L.A. Wildfires
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has made it abundantly clear that she didnt study atmospheric sciences in college, launching an unhinged suggestion that officials could end the Los Angeles wildfires by manipulating the weather.
Why dont they use geoengineering like cloud seeding to bring rain down on the wildfires in California?" the Republican asked Sunday in a post on X. They know how to do it.
Greene has repeatedly used cloud seedingthe practice of releasing silver iodide particles and other aerosols from planes or ground generators into clouds to encourage rain or snowfallas a silver bullet explanation for weather phenomena while apparently not knowing how it works.
In October, she suggested that the federal government created Hurricane Milton using the technology, days before it battered Florida. Experts noted cloud seeding can create small amounts of localized rain in some cases, but not a hurricane.
President Joe Biden called Greenes antics so stupid, while one of Greenes GOP colleagues in the House said anyone who shares her views needs to have their head examined.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-launches-unhinged-call-for-officials-to-manipulate-the-weather-to-stop-la-wildfires/

Irish_Dem
(63,142 posts)Or always zonked on drugs?
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,059 posts)Irish_Dem
(63,142 posts)allegorical oracle
(3,924 posts)Earth's weather. One day we'll wake up and she will be gone -- whisked off in a spaceship.
Irish_Dem
(63,142 posts)Maybe the ETs think humans are this stupid, maybe they are right.




Initech
(103,361 posts)
SWBTATTReg
(24,710 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(11,059 posts)Ocelot II
(122,694 posts)Her wardrobe is tacky but somehow she manages to put it on, which seems to be about the most advanced activity she can handle. Marge, here's the thing: Clouds are masses of condensed water vapor suspended in the air. You can't seed a cloud, which (sometimes) causes rain to fall, unless there's a cloud to seed. When you have 100-mph Santa Ana winds coming off the deserts (which are hot, dry places with no water), there are no masses of condensed water vapor, i.e., clouds. None. Zero. Marge, please go back to the gym and work on your bad body some more and shut up about cloud seeding. And everything else.
GreenWave
(9,997 posts)Zambero
(9,798 posts)Now that RWNJ's and their bought-and-sold political allies have done their level best over the course of decades to forestall preventive climate change measures, let's get serious with some projection shit. Bombs away!
Arazi
(7,477 posts)At Thanksgiving in response to an innocuous comment about the lovely day 🙄
Its a very common belief in RW propaganda. Laugh all you want at their insanity but theres an enormous number of Rs who believe this
Hugin
(35,385 posts)Okay, okay
Supposing it were possible, wouldnt a better use of the aircraft be to drop water and fire retardant directly on the fires? Like is being done, now?
It may shock you to hear that as stupid as Greene can be, shes about average for many of the people who have been gerrymandered and Peter Principled into positions of authority in this great nation.
Good Idea fairies abound.
Seriously, its one of the primary reasons I resigned and work for myself. I got so tired of explaining the obvious in excruciating detail.
Dulcinea
(7,789 posts)She's not there to legislate. She's in Congress to fleece the rubes, who eat up this bad performance art & open their wallets whenever she says something to "own the libs."
bdamomma
(67,237 posts)mentally.
ITAL
(942 posts)She's been posting this very cloud seeding thing for the last few days and says the reason they're not is the rich and/or big government want to take over all the land. She's a conspiracy loon. Amazingly she's one of those Bernie Sanders/Donald Trump crossover fans.
struggle4progress
(121,161 posts)tanyev
(45,244 posts)Along with truth, science, logic and common sense.
malaise
(280,521 posts)Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Pay attention dumbass MTD
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)