MTG said "Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done."
Sleepy Joe said, "Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congresswoman from Georgia, is now saying the federal government is literally controlling the weather, we’re controlling the weather. It’s beyond ridiculous. It’s so stupid. It’s got to stop,"
MTG said, "Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified, because they are required to report it to the Secretary of Commerce by the Weather Modification Act of 1972," she wrote on X, referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "The NOAA government website has a library catalog of 1,026 entries of weather modifications, but that’s not all of them."
To MTG's credit, that is true enough...
https://library.noaa.gov/weather-climate/weather-modification-project-reports?sfnsn=scwspmo Sleepy Joe probably doesn't even know what that NOAA thing is.
Suppose you still believe that government involvement in weather modification is just a conspiracy theory. In that case, it's no more stupid than believing in the Green New Deal Climate Change hoax or believing that REAL ID will protect you from terrorists.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eight-states-are-seeding-clouds-to-overcome-megadrought/ Vincent Schaefer, a researcher with General Electric, is often credited with the first cloud seeding experiments in the 1940s. Much of Schaefer’s work during and after World War II centered on preventing aircraft from icing over in midair. So he designed a special homemade freezer to help him better understand the way ice forms inside clouds.
As the story goes, Schaefer entered the lab one day to discover that his freezer had been turned off. Hoping to cool it as quickly as possible, he placed a block of dry ice inside the box. A cloud of glistening ice crystals instantly formed in the air.
In 1946, Schaefer conducted the first true cloud seeding experiment by aircraft. He dropped 6 pounds of crushed dry ice into a cloud in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Almost immediately, snow began to fall.
In later experiments, Schaefer and other GE colleagues would discover that certain types of particles are more effective at helping ice crystals form. Silver iodide, they found, is one of the best.
Weather modification quickly captured the attention of the U.S. government. Over the next few decades, it would fund cloud seeding experiments on everything from drought management to military applications.
In 1947, Project Cirrus—a collaboration between GE and the U.S. military—made history as scientists’ first attempt to modify a hurricane. On Oct. 13, the operation dumped nearly 200 pounds of dry ice into a cyclone that was churning off the coast of Florida.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the federal government continued to experiment with the idea of cloud seeding hurricanes—but to little avail. Scientists eventually concluded that it wasn’t effective.
Beginning in the early 1960s, the Bureau of Reclamation funded a series of cloud seeding experiments known as Project Skywater, aimed at boosting water resources in the Western states. Reports suggest the project had mixed results.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the U.S. military even experimented with weather modification as a weapon of war. Operation Popeye, as it was dubbed, aimed to generate enough rainfall to disrupt enemy supply routes in Vietnam.
These efforts were short-lived. In 1977, an international treaty banned the use of weather modification for military purposes.
