‘All you have to do is look up’: Marjorie Taylor Greene proving evolution can indeed run backwards with breathtaking new conspiracy

For a long time, there have been wild ideas about the U.S. government supposedly using airplanes to spray dangerous chemicals over American homes, or powerful elites controlling the weather. Those were mostly kept to the edges of public conversation, but we’re now dealing with it in lawmakers’ offices, like Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Republican lawmakers around the country are busy proposing, passing, and signing laws to ban what they call “weather modification” and environmental geoengineering. These efforts often tie back to the long-standing “chemtrails” theory, which claims that airplanes are secretly spraying chemicals on people without their knowledge.

As communities deal with the harsh effects of extreme weather, some Republican politicians are presenting these fringe theories as real possibilities. This is helping push these ideas further into mainstream politics, even though most scientists agree that the increasing number of extreme weather events is directly linked to climate change. According to NBC News, Lawmakers in nearly twenty states have proposed such measures, with governors in Tennessee and Florida already signing related bills into law.

Climate change is fake but weather control is real according to many republicans

At the federal level, Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Tim Burchett of Tennessee recently introduced the “Clear Skies Act.” This proposed federal law would ban different types of geoengineering and set heavy penalties for anyone found to be altering the weather. These penalties could include fines as high as $100,000 per violation and possible prison sentences of up to five years. However, hurting the earth in real ways still seems fake to them.

A Republican state senator in Pennsylvania, Camera Bartolotta, who supported similar legislation, said, “It’s not a conspiracy theory… All you have to do is look up.” Representative Greene, a leading supporter of federal laws against weather modification, mentioned what she called “kind of funny hypocrisy” among climate change activists.

“They’re like, ‘No, don’t stop manmade climate change,’” she continued. “So I find that to be a laughable hypocrisy. And so it just doesn’t add up to me.” She seems to believe that something like cloud seeding is equivalent to global warming.

She said they push to stop climate change but then seem to oppose actions against human-caused weather changes, which she finds confusing. Greene herself has faced a lot of criticism over the years, especially for her 2018 claim that space lasers might have started a California wildfire. Now, she feels justified as Republican lawmakers across the country pursue laws that match her long-held beliefs.

A meteorologist explained that the idea of geoengineering, like trying to dim the sun to change the climate, is a real scientific concept. However, it has never been done on a large scale. He added that cloud seeding only happens in very limited cases. He suggested that politicians are mixing these two separate ideas with extreme, baseless conspiracy theories.