Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government ‘weather modification’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-across-country-pushing-bills-090000711.html

by yahoonews

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  1. **From NBC News:**

    For years, outlandish theories about the U.S. government’s using airplanes to spray harmful chemicals over U.S. homes or powerful elites controlling the weather were relegated to the fringes of society.

    [Not anymore](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/epa-head-promises-total-transparency-geoengineering-contrails-weather-rcna218029).

    As the internet has provided rocket fuel for such claims, Republican lawmakers across the country are introducing, passing and enacting laws to ban “weather modification” and environmental geoengineering and allude to the use of “chemtrails,” a longtime theory that planes are spreading chemical agents on an unsuspecting public. [As more people are exposed to dangerous flooding](https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148866/research-shows-more-people-living-in-floodplains), the GOP lawmakers have pointed to the fringe theories as potential explanations for extreme weather, pushing them further into the political mainstream. (Scientists have [found evidence](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/global-warming-can-make-extreme-weather-worse-now-scientists-can-n901751) tying the increasing frequency of extreme weather to climate change.)

    Republican lawmakers [in nearly 20](https://statecapitallobbyist.com/environment/state-level-geoengineering-bans-florida-montana-and-beyond/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) state legislatures have [proposed](https://www.clearskiesiowa.com/copy-of-the-solutions?utm_source=chatgpt.com) such %5Blegislation%5D(https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1R/summary/H.HB2056_012925_CAUCUSCOW.DOCX.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com), with governors in [Tennessee](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/tennessee-lawmakers-ban-geoengineering-allusions-chemtrails-rcna145015) and %5BFlorida%5D(https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2025/07/15/floridas-attorney-general-asks-airports-to-watch-out-for-chemtrails/85209875007/) having signed bills into law. On the federal level, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., recently introduced the “[Clear Skies Act](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4403/text),” which would outlaw forms of geoengineering and hit alleged weather modifiers with penalties of up to $100,000 for each violation and potential prison sentences of up to five years.

    “It’s not a conspiracy theory,” Pennsylvania state Sen. Camera Bartolotta, a Republican who co-sponsored legislation in her state, said in an interview. “All you have to do is look up.”

    At its core, the legislative push seeks to outlaw human-made alterations to the climate — notable, given how the party has fought to stop efforts to combat climate change tied to fossil fuel consumption and as the Trump administration has [cut funding for climate change research](https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-trumps-assault-on-science-is-blinding-america-to-climate-change/) and removed[ the website](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/national-climate-assessment-published) that hosted the government’s climate assessments.

  3. Human caused climate change? Complete balogna, liberal nonsense. Genuinely laughable

    Democrat controlled weather machines focused on destroying good ‘ol red states? This is 100% fact, go look it up. No I won’t provide sources, go do your own research

  4. >“It’s not a conspiracy theory,” Pennsylvania state Sen. Camera Bartolotta, a Republican who co-sponsored legislation in her state, said in an interview. “All you have to do is look up.”

    “The Sun orbits the Earth. All you have to do is look up at the sky and see that the Sun moves but we don’t.”

  5. So they’re going to weaponize climate change.

    They cause the problems, refuse to fix them, and then blame them on their enemies.

    It’s a fairly common tactic – it’s up to us to not allow it to succeed.

  6. “STOP WEATHER MODIFICATION!” (subtext “Stop Weather Notification!”)

  8. I said it in 2016 and I’ll say it again

    Donald Trump can not be trusted with the government’s secret weather machine

  9. Its pretty much a ploy, a head fake at this point to stop funding further science and climate related projects… after all, the Texas flooding would have been prevented IF they installed flood warning systems.. but no.. even today, they haven’t done ANYTHING. Which tells me more lives will be lost.

  10. I guess we will see what happens during midterms and I’ll find out if I need to check out of science and politics permanently because I can’t spend my life stressed out based on the fact that Americans don’t understand or care about literally anything.

  12. Imagine if they ever mobilized for something useful

  13. The stupidity of these MAGAt politicians knows no depths.

  14. Isn’t pollution a form of „weather modification“?
    I wonder why they don’t ban pollution..

  15. Republicans have all three branches of government and they still think there is some government weather conspiracy? Rather than their policies that worsen global warming. 😞

  16. Ah – So they want to STOP carbon emissions !!!
    Do they intend to ban the use of gasoline ?

    I am guessing that they are not very knowledgeable about science..

  19. “Pay no attention to the Epstein files we’re hiding.”

  20. Diggin up a literal mountain of coal and aerosolizing it via combustion engines is weather modification.

  21. Banning weather modification aircraft actually means no fossil-fueled aircraft are allowed to fly in those states. After all, combustion engines emitting CO2 and water vapor does modify the weather ever so slightly and subsequently, the climate.

    Just waiting for the FAA to ban all airliners from operating in those states.

  23. Do the Republicans not realize that they are also part of the government?

    Sure seems like their supporters would put their brain cells together and understand this.

  24. If we don’t see the hurricane coming then it never happened and the damage is all in your mind. Makes perfect sense to me!

  27. Stupid gonna stupid. Anything to protect their climate killing benefactors.

  28. I love how they’ve been screaming for years that “Humans could never alter the climate enough to matter. It’s foolish to think we can interfere with Gods design”. Yet somehow at the same time cloud seeding is responsible for every natural disaster and the democrats have the power to create and steer hurricanes.

  30. Just break up the country. Let the red states try to survive without blue state money.

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