Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claims the continuing authorities shutdown has halted “taxpayer-funded climate modification experiments” that U.S. authorities businesses say they weren’t already concerned in.
“One good factor to come back from this authorities shutdown… CLEAR SKIES!” the Georgia Republican wrote on X on Friday. “No taxpayer-funded climate modification experiments People by no means requested for. My Clear Skies Act will BAN geoengineering and climate modification. No extra spraying chemical substances in our skies. It’s time to finish this harmful and unregulated observe!!”
U.S. businesses have constantly mentioned they don’t seem to be concerned in large-scale, non-laboratory climate modification experiments, at the same time as such analysis has turn into a fixation of conspiracy theorists, who consider climate modification has triggered pure disasters and been unfold by the exhaust trails of passing airplanes.
The Unbiased has contacted Greene’s workplace for extra info concerning the premise of her claims, together with any particular ongoing experiments she may level to that had been halted.
“The U.S. authorities shouldn’t be engaged in any type of outside testing (e.g., small-scale experiments designed to review injection applied sciences) or large-scale deployment” of applied sciences to change the quantity of photo voltaic radiation hitting the Earth, in keeping with the Environmental Safety Company.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claims the federal government shutdown has paused federally backed climate modification experiments, regardless of little signal such experiments exist (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
“Present federal analysis is designed to enhance the flexibility to look at present situations within the environment and the understanding of the potential bodily impacts of photo voltaic geoengineering,” in keeping with the company.
“NOAA doesn’t fund or take part in cloud seeding or different climate modification initiatives,” the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Company wrote late final yr on its web site.
“NOAA doesn’t modify the climate, nor does it fund, take part in or oversee cloud seeding or some other climate modification actions,” the company added.
Industrial flights, lengthy thought by conspiracy theorists to unfold “chemtrails,” additionally stay operational throughout the federal government shutdown, showing to forged additional doubt on the premise of Greene’s claims.
Each the EPA and NOAA have mentioned over the past yr they don’t seem to be concerned in non-laboratory experiments to alter the climate (Copyright 2025 The Related Press. All rights reserved)
Cloud seeding has been practiced within the U.S. because the mid-1900s, although it’s primarily funded on the state degree or under, in keeping with a 2024 report from the Authorities Accountability Workplace. As of final July, cloud seeding packages have been energetic in not less than 9, principally arid Western states, the place such efforts have been used to extend snowpack and reduce drought impacts.
Greene, who as soon as famously indulged a conspiracy principle {that a} area laser managed by a outstanding Jewish household triggered wildfires in California, has been an outspoken critic of climate modification.
In July, she launched a invoice to ban the observe.
Greene launched laws in July to ban climate modification (Actual America’s Voice)
Regardless of the paucity of proof that the federal government is concerned in such analysis, or that large-scale climate modification past cloud seeding is even potential, the Trump administration is reportedly getting ready a Division of Well being and Human Companies job drive to analyze local weather and climate management, in keeping with an company memo obtained by KFF Well being Information.
The memo describes a sequence of conspiracies about occasions that both haven’t or couldn’t bodily happen with current applied sciences, local weather scientist Daniel Swain of the College of California instructed the outlet.
“That may be a fairly stunning memo,” he mentioned. “It doesn’t get extra tinfoil hat. They actually consider toxins are being sprayed.”