The Government DOES NOT CONTROL the FUCKING WEATHER, YOU MAGA IDIOTS....
Can I say this any louder? I can try.
Conspiracy theorists just can’t resist a good “the feds are out to get us” story, and cloud seeding is their latest obsession. Apparently, a perfectly harmless (and honestly kind of underwhelming) weather-modification technique is now being painted as some sinister plot to control your brain, make you gay, or whatever new flavor of paranoia is trending this week. It’s all part of their grand narrative that the government is basically a comic book villain with unlimited powers—and also, somehow, totally incompetent.
What the Hell is Cloud Seeding?
For those of you who haven’t been sucked into this whirlwind of nonsense, let’s start with the basics. Cloud seeding isn’t some sci-fi mind-control shit; it’s a weather modification technique that’s been around since the 1940s. A plane (or sometimes a ground-based machine) disperses silver iodide crystals into…
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