Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to stop them from making it rain
The opponents of cloud-seeding come for geoengineering
August 20, 2025 | The Economist
Rainmaker, a startup backed by Peter Thiel, a prominent venture capitalist, among others, flew an aeroplane over south-central Texas in early July, depositing 70 grams of silver iodide within two clouds. The technique, known as cloud-seeding, aims to coax more water from the heavens than the clouds would yield on their own….
… Among those who feared a sinister plot are several Republican politicians, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman from Georgia. In the aftermath of the floods Ms Greene published several social-media posts warning of the dangers of weather modification. The congresswoman has form on this. “Yes they control the weather,” she wrote on X after Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina particularly hard last September. On July 15th she proposed the Clear Skies Act, a federal ban on weather modification. If passed (which is unlikely), the legislation would make it a felony to release chemicals into the atmosphere with intent to modify the weather.