Florida demands "weather modification" investigation of Texas Floods
Like many phantasmagorias once relegated to the dim-lit corners of the internet, the notion that humans are deliberately engineering the weather has tiptoed its way into the halls of officialdom.
Once the purview of the chronically suspicious and the epistemologically unmoored, “weather modification” now finds itself the subject of formal inquiry—not by rogue bloggers or forum dwellers, but by state officials wielding the apparatus of governance.
Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier publicly entertained the idea that the devastating floods in Texas were not solely the wrathful result of a warming climate but potentially the product of human orchestration.
Uthhmeier wrote in a public letter issues yesterday that he “can’t help but notice the possibility that weather modification could have played a role” in the Texas floods.
It is a statement as stunning as it is scientifically incoherent.
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