Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia posted on social media Thursday night that anonymous people can control the weather.
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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia posted on social media Thursday night that anonymous people can control the weather.
“Yes, they can control the weather,” Green wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “It’s ridiculous for someone to lie and say it’s impossible.”
Greene’s post does not clarify who “they” are or what she was implying.
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“Yes, they can control the weather,” Green wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “It’s ridiculous for someone to lie and say it’s impossible.”
Greene’s post did not clarify who “they” were or what she was implying. Her office did not respond to an email from Spectrum News seeking comment.
But in another X post earlier Thursday, Green posted a map of the southeastern United States with the message: “This is a map of hurricane-affected areas overlaid with election maps by political party to show how hurricane damage will affect elections.”
Greene represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, one of several states devastated by Hurricane Helen last week. The death toll from the storm exceeded 200 on Thursday.
Earlier this week, former President Donald Trump claimed, without evidence, that North Carolina’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, was not helping Republican-leaning areas affected by the hurricane. Trump also said Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, was unable to communicate with President Joe Biden about the response to the storm, a claim Kemp denied.
Greene has a history of spreading baseless conspiracy theories. She has supported QAnon, the conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump is fighting a secret war with a Democratic-run Satan-worshiping pedophile ring.
She also suggested in a 2018 Facebook post that California wildfires could have been caused by lasers fired from a space solar power plant planned by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, the investment firm of Rothschild & Company, and others collaborated to build the high-speed rail project. The Rothschild family is a frequent subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Greene also called the Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Sandy Hook school shootings “false flag” planned events.
In February 2021, a month into her first term, the Democratic-led House of Representatives removed her from her committees due to her support for violence and conspiracy theories against Democratic members on social media. passed the decision to strip him of his duties.
Speaking on the House floor shortly before the vote, Greene said she regretted believing the false information and said her past comments “do not represent me.” She returned to the committee when Republicans regained the House majority in 2023.
One commenter on Greene’s post about controlling the weather pointed to an article about cloud seeding and argued that Greene was right. This decades-long process uses planes and ground-based artillery to fire particles into storm clouds, drawing moisture and bringing additional snow and rain to drought-stricken areas.
Researchers disagree on how effective this method is, and meteorologists say there is no evidence that it causes flooding.
