Overview

• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene opened an Oversight subcommittee session titled “Playing God with the Weather — a Disastrous Forecast.”
• Greene highlighted historic U.S. weather experiments and warned about secrecy, weak oversight, and venture-backed efforts to commercialize geoengineering.
• Democrats, including Reps. Melanie Stansbury and Jasmine Crockett, criticized the hearing as off-mission for a panel focused on waste, fraud, and abuse and linked it to conspiracy-driven claims.
• The EPA created public webpages on geoengineering and contrails after Texas flood speculation, and a GAO report found cloud seeding can boost precipitation by up to about 20% and is used in at least nine states.
• Witnesses and scientific sources reiterated that no evidence connects cloud seeding or other weather modification to floods or hurricanes, countering assertions from some Republicans.