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groundloop

(13,111 posts)
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 10:39 PM Jul 5

Greene to introduce 'weather modification' bill

Source: The Hill

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday she plans to introduce a bill aimed at tackling “weather modification.”

“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 wrote in a Saturday post on X.

“I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill,” Greene added.

[snip]

Greene made headlines last year when she suggested Democrats were able to “control the weather” in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, prompting then-President Biden to condemn what he called “irresponsible” and “beyond ridiculous” falsehoods.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5386499-greene-to-introduce-weather-modification-bill/



So someone who heats or cools their house is releasing CO2 into the atmosphere with the sole purpose of modifying the climate (inside their house)...... We're all going to jail!!!!!!!!

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Greene to introduce 'weather modification' bill (Original Post) groundloop Jul 5 OP
Grew up in South. Her rube constituents are really concerned about chemtrails. Silent Type Jul 5 #1
She's talking about cloud seeding too womanofthehills Jul 6 #10
Right wing memes are promoting weather modification by climate change scientists jmbar2 Jul 5 #2
Because everyone knows odins folly Jul 7 #27
Then every factory in the country that emits any smoke from a smokestack lastlib Jul 5 #3
Is this just her crazy crap again? mdbl Jul 5 #4
Performance art for the rubes. Dulcinea Jul 6 #7
Shouldn't she be somewhere pushing a shopping cart full of crap and arguing with a fire hydrant? LudwigPastorius Jul 5 #5
That got a nose snort out of me! Dem2theMax Jul 6 #9
Go ahead GOP, D. Spaulding Jul 5 #6
NEVER, EVER, EVER forget: AZ8theist Jul 6 #8
Also this .... FakeNoose Jul 6 #18
That picture explains a lot...... AZ8theist Jul 7 #21
Yes ... FakeNoose Jul 7 #23
Thank Goodness all these weather criminals will at last be brought to justice! forgotmylogin Jul 6 #11
Well, there goes every internal combustion vehicle! Aussie105 Jul 6 #12
Well, not really. Her bill is worded, "for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or Martin68 Jul 6 #17
She is a maroon. twodogsbarking Jul 6 #13
Hmmmmm... injection... harumph Jul 6 #14
A lot of chemicals or substances have affected her brain Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 6 #15
A performative red herring, but I happen to agree with the concept in principle. Martin68 Jul 6 #16
Imagine if she spent this much energy on the 38% of Americans who live in the shadows of industrial corridors EarthFirst Jul 6 #19
Someone please fire up the space laser. eggplant Jul 6 #20
She believes this nonsense but thought crime Jul 7 #22
No more a useful idiot was ever bleached so blonde Torchlight Jul 7 #24
Cruz says it's God's work. MTG wants to block anyone messin with weather. Attilatheblond Jul 7 #25
People vote for her doc03 Jul 7 #26

womanofthehills

(9,995 posts)
10. She's talking about cloud seeding too
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 12:46 AM
Jul 6

As Cloud seeding was recently banned in Florida and her bill is similar to Florida’s. The states that do the most cloud seeding are Wyoming, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Texas, & NM.

I didn’t realize cloud seeding was being done in my state of NM. I just read many in Northern NM are against it as silver iodide can contaminate soil and aquatic life in rivers.

Something else to think about - I never really thought much about cloud seeding & I read we used it in Vietnam in Operation Popeye to prolong Monsoon season but we used both lead iodide and silver iodide. Lead iodide???

odins folly

(422 posts)
27. Because everyone knows
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 03:52 PM
Jul 7

That climate scientists are really Bond villains in disguise. The anti-science folks don’t trust anyone with an education, and so those scientists MUST be EVIL!!!!!!!!

Ya see, they got an education, and collectively decided that in order to maintain their cushy government/university jobs, they need to manufacture a “crisis” and then create a whole new way of creating PROOF that there is a crisis ergo it’s the scientists who are REALLY behind tornados, hurricanes, typhoons etc….

Or some such shit. But that theory does have a similar premise to what this administration is doing….

lastlib

(26,289 posts)
3. Then every factory in the country that emits any smoke from a smokestack
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 11:01 PM
Jul 5

will have to close down, under that language. Every pig farm, cattle feedlot, meat processing plant, poultry farm, will be shuttered, because they all produce "chemicals" that alter the environment. Who woulda thunk that Li'l Sporkfoot would suddenly become an environmentalist? (although there could be a challenge to the "mental" part of that term in her case......)

Dulcinea

(8,739 posts)
7. Performance art for the rubes.
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 12:09 AM
Jul 6

Every time she opens her pie-hole, money pours into the GOP coffers. She's not there to legislate. She's there to fundraise.

Dem2theMax

(10,766 posts)
9. That got a nose snort out of me!
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 12:39 AM
Jul 6


Have to add, I was eating pepper cheese at the time. Thank the universe it didn't end up in my nose!

FakeNoose

(37,811 posts)
23. Yes ...
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 12:01 PM
Jul 7

My theory is that Chump comes by it naturally, but MTG deliberately cultivates hers.

forgotmylogin

(7,907 posts)
11. Thank Goodness all these weather criminals will at last be brought to justice!
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 03:45 AM
Jul 6

Perhaps some sort of organization will need to be set up to build a wall to prevent magical weather-controlling sabotage and keep people safe from it. I'm sure we'll make weather great again with Marjorie Taylor Greene on the job.

Aussie105

(7,100 posts)
12. Well, there goes every internal combustion vehicle!
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 03:54 AM
Jul 6

Collectively emitting weather altering chemicals into the air.

MTG no like!

Martin68

(26,146 posts)
17. Well, not really. Her bill is worded, "for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 02:04 PM
Jul 6

sunlight intensity.

twodogsbarking

(14,352 posts)
13. She is a maroon.
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 09:14 AM
Jul 6

Long as I remember the rain been comin' down
Clouds of mystery pourin' confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages tryin' to find the sun
And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain?

harumph

(2,839 posts)
14. Hmmmmm... injection...
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 11:37 AM
Jul 6

... release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity (may one day be our only hope to stop global warming). Talking about stratospheric injection schemes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection

Yes, this is actually a thing. She may be talking about "chemtrails," but the science that the bill would affect is real.

EarthFirst

(3,733 posts)
19. Imagine if she spent this much energy on the 38% of Americans who live in the shadows of industrial corridors
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 02:17 PM
Jul 6

…or the 21 million who live adjacent to Superfund sites?

Ponder the restorative benefits to the health of American public focusing on real impacts to communities; not these performative media displays.

thought crime

(488 posts)
22. She believes this nonsense but
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 02:27 AM
Jul 7

Denies the effect of over 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year by human activity.

Denies the conclusions of essentially 100% of climate scientists.

Denies the evidence in front of her.

Torchlight

(5,072 posts)
24. No more a useful idiot was ever bleached so blonde
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 12:13 PM
Jul 7

As her idiocy metastasizes, I'm guessing Flat Earth will be on her bingo card by the end of the summer.

Defunding education works.

Attilatheblond

(6,643 posts)
25. Cruz says it's God's work. MTG wants to block anyone messin with weather.
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 03:18 PM
Jul 7

So, MTG wants to stop 'God' or just wants attention as Cruz tries to blame anybody but GOP pols/policy?

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