When I was an evangelical Christian, when something horrific happens, we were always told, “things happen for a reason.” Now, when horrible things happen, we pick and choose who is doing the hurting. Take the case of the Los Angeles wildfires this past January. I heard that it was God’s punishment for being an evil city and evil people. Some even told me that they wish more people died. When it comes to horrific things happening in red states, it is a weather weapon used by the deep state. This is where we are now.
Conspiracy theories, pushed by online influencers, and members of Congress, are back to some weather seeding theory. Cloud seeding caused the rain to happen and kill kids.
“Due to the recent weather weapon deployed against Texas, which resulted in a high number of child murders, efforts to eliminate this military treason are being escalated,” Michael Meyer wrote. He’s the founder of anti-government extremist group Veterans on Patrol, posted a warning on his Telegram channel.
Later that day, a NextGen Live Radar system operated by News 9 in Oklahoma City was attacked by an individual. It was taken offline briefly. Meyer has called for lone wolf attacks on NextGen Radar towers. He believed that they are seeding the air. Which is what he believed caused the massive downpour that caused flooding in the area of Texas.
NextGen Live Radar are the new 5G Towers
“Anyone that’s going out to eliminate a Nexrad, if they haven’t harmed life, and they’re doing it according to the videos that we’re providing, they are part of our group,” Meyer told WIRED. “We’re going to have to take out every single media’s capabilities of lying to the American people. Mainstream media is the biggest threat right now.”
The conspiracy theory that these radars (specifically called out by name) are relatively new. However, “weather seeding” conspiracy is not. Remember when the raging California wildfires occurred during Trump’s first term? Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed it on “Jewish space lasers”. Then our president blamed the lack of raking leaves as a major issue? Nearly a decade now.
People on Threads claiming to be ultra-liberal, “read up” on it. It has made them a believer, especially in Rainmaker. A cloud-seeding company that is a weather modifier. Like many science-based ideas, people without a proper understanding of science are fearful. Just like we saw in 3G, 4G, and eventually 5G technology.
Cloud seeding does not create rain. It creates snow. It would increase snow packs, which would turn into water and flow into streams that will eventually fill reservoirs. According to DRI, in the various locations where they experimented, they found an increase in rainfall per year. Where it would be somewhere between 10 to 15 percent.
“It is not physically possible or possible within the laws of atmospheric chemistry to cloud seed at a scale that would cause an event like [the Texas flooding] to occur,” says Matt Lanza, a digital meteorologist based in Houston. Lanza compares cloud seeding to adding “icing to a cake”. It’s able to juice up precipitation from clouds in drier areas, not create storms wholesale out of thin air.
Yet, it doesn’t stop science illiterates from plugging up social media
For instance, right-wing influencer Gabrielle Yoder jumped on this conspiracy theories, claiming that cloud seeding was responsible for causing the floods and calling out the head of Rainmaker by name.
US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that she would be introducing a bill to “end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering.” Greene, who believes in space laser and ties to the Jews, said that the bill will be similar to Florida’s Senate Bill 56, which Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law in June. That bill makes weather modification a third-degree felony, punishable by up to $100,000.
“Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake,” Kandiss Taylor wrote in a post viewed 2.4 million times. She is running for Georgia’s 1st congressional district in the House of Representatives.
Many in my comments make a good point. Many of whom are climate change deniers are coming to the point that “weather issues are man made”, but are going about it a weird way. However, they are coming down to the same conclusion.
The problem with these conspiracy theories – not so much from the pushers, they know better – but from the people that regurgitate it as fact. People that failed sixth grade science and took it as a badge of honor. People that don’t understand science because they don’t work in it. So, why should they take time to learn it? As a guy on YouTube once said about rocket launches, “because I don’t understand them, that means they’re fake.”