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Ronald Bailey

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Dead Wrong About Outlawing Climate Geoengineering

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R–Ga.) and leading MAGA mountebank earlier this month urgently demanded that "we must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering." She added, "This is not normal. I want clean air, clean skies, clean rain water, clean ground water, and sun shine just like God created it!! No person, company, entity, or government should ever be allowed to modify our weather by any means possible!!"

Subsequently, the congresswoman has now introduced a bill in Congress making it a felony for anyone to attempt "weather modification" anywhere in the United States. The text of her "Clear Skies Act" prohibits "any injection, release, emission, or dispersal of a chemical, a chemical compound, or a substance, or conveyance of an apparatus, into the atmosphere for the express purpose of…producing an artificial change in the composition, behavior, or dynamics of the atmosphere; or…affecting the temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight." Examples of prohibited activities include "geoengineering" "cloud seeding" "solar radiation modification and management" and "a release of an aerosol into the atmosphere to influence temperature, precipitation, or the intensity of sunlight."

Greene has a long history of promoting debunked theories about chemtrails and cloud-seeded floods (not to mention innuendos about Jewish space lasers causing forest fires), and her proposed prohibition on atmospheric geoengineering can now be added to her list of specious provocations.

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