Marjorie Taylor Greene Launches Unhinged Call for Officials to Manipulate the Weather to Stop L.A. Wildfires [View all]

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has made it abundantly clear that she didn’t study atmospheric sciences in college, launching an unhinged suggestion that officials could end the Los Angeles wildfires by manipulating the weather.

“Why don’t 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 seeding—the practice of releasing silver iodide particles and other aerosols from planes or ground generators into clouds to encourage rain or snowfall—as 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 Greene’s antics “so stupid,” while one of Greene’s 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/