Overview

• More than 100 people have been confirmed dead after July 4 flash floods that struck the Texas Hill Country, known as the nation’s most flash-flood-prone area.
• Meteorologists and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation confirm that cloud seeding can boost rainfall by at most about 20% and cannot create or steer storms of this size.
• Atmospheric scientists explain that seeding particles dispersed long before the July 4 storms, making any link to Rainmaker’s July 2 operations physically impossible.
• Texas has licensed cloud seeding since the 1950s under the 1967 Weather Modification Act to aid drought relief, with regulations in place to prevent adverse effects such as flash floods.
• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other political figures have proposed making weather modification a felony based on unsubstantiated conspiracy claims despite expert consensus.