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Some GOP lawmakers ‘don’t see danger’ in conspiracies with legislation banning weather modification
NBC News·2025-07-29 22:30

The claim is outlandish that the government can control the weather. It can't. But the conspiracy theory appears to have gone mainstream in some conservative districts, fueled in part by a very real uptick in extreme weather, partly due to the impacts of climate change.The spread of those conspiracy theories has now prompted some local officials and congressional Republicans to push for legislation to ban quote weather modification. An NBC News analysis found that GOP lawmakers in nearly 20 state legislatur ...