Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sounded the alarm Tuesday on weather-tampering efforts aimed at counteracting climate change and promoting rainfall, warning the left wants to take away Americans’ “God-given rights over the Earth in order to satisfy their godless climate cult beliefs.”
“No one wants to be a lab rat,” she said.
Chairing a DOGE subcommittee hearing called “Playing God with the Weather – a Disastrous Forecast,” Ms. Greene said concerns over attempts to change the climate — including solar geo-engineering that seeks to cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight and cloud-seeding to increase rainfall — reach far beyond the conspiratorial corners of the internet.
“What this whole debate comes down to is, who controls the skies?” said Mr. Greene, Georgia Republican. “Do we believe in God and that he has dominion over his perfect creation of planet Earth?
“Do we believe that he has given us everything we need to survive as a civilization since the beginning of time?” she said. “Or do you believe in man’s claim of authority over the weather, based on scientists that have only been alive for decades and weren’t here to witness the climate changes since the beginning of time?”
Democrats accused Republicans of exaggerating their concerns, and said more research needed to be done.
They also criticized President Trump and Republicans for pulling out of international climate-change negotiations and slashing funding for the Environmental Protection Agency.
“The purpose of the EPA, literally, this is why the EPA exists, is to regulate, study and understand how modifications to the environment impact human health and the environment,” said New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee.
For years, the furor over weather manipulation efforts was chalked up mainly to conspiracy theorists who pointed to airplane “chemtrails” and other phenomena as proof the government or shady groups were releasing dangerous chemicals for nefarious reasons, including to manipulate the weather, the population, and even people’s minds.
The subject area largely flew under the radar before Mr. Trump and Republicans took back control of Washington.
EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin this year said it was time to address Americans’ urgent and vital questions about geo-engineering and condensation trails.
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