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.

Why Florida should presume jurisdiction over a meteorological disaster in Texas defies both logic and geography.

I suspect that the real objective has less to do with rainfall patterns and more to do with political positioning.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has shown an unwavering knack for inserting his state into the center of national dramas, appears eager to conscript even the weather as a stage prop in his ongoing “narrative war.”

Yet the science—persistent, peer-reviewed, and impervious to the whims of political theater—tells a very different story. Extreme weather events, such as the Texas floods, are consistent with well-documented climate change models.

As global temperatures rise, so too does the atmosphere’s capacity to hold moisture, intensifying rainfall. The correlation is not speculative but established: warmer oceans feed energy into storms; destabilized jet streams yield erratic weather. These are the laws of physics, not the plots of dystopian thrillers.

The idea that such events are orchestrated through clandestine weather-control programs is not just implausible—it is scientifically bankrupt. The oft-cited theories revolve around chemtrails, HAARP, or secret satellites allegedly capable of controlling precipitation.

These claims fall apart under even cursory scientific scrutiny.

Cloud seeding, the only existing form of weather modification with any basis in reality, involves dispersing particles into clouds to encourage precipitation under specific conditions - typically in drought-prone areas, by a modest amount (estimated to be around 10%).

It's not capable of creating the massive storms that led to the Texas floods.

It is a blunt, localized, and marginally effective tool—not the omnipotent weather-wand of conspiracy lore. It cannot summon floods across state lines or alter weather systems at scale, let alone in defiance of meteorological models.

To ascribe complex atmospheric phenomena to human meddling rather than to the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of both climate science and causality. More charitably, it may reflect the sort of willful unknowing that flourishes when political expediency eclipses intellectual integrity.

That one of Florida’s highest-ranking officials would lend credence to such speculation is not just an embarrassment—it is an indictment of the intellectual standards that increasingly govern our public discourse.

A modest education in earth sciences—say, at the eighth-grade level-- should suffice to reveal the preposterousness of these claims.

That such fantasies have escaped their proper confines and entered the legal record is not merely a curiosity of modern politics; it is a cautionary tale about the cost of abandoning reason in favor of spectacle.

This fevered thinking has not remained in the abstract.

NOAA technicians reported an uptick in interference with Doppler radar systems over this period—acts carried out by self-appointed patriots under the impression they are disabling tools of climatic control.

In Oklahoma City last month, a weather radar station was vandalized by someone apparently convinced the equipment was being used to manipulate local weather patterns.

The far-right militia group Veterans on Patrol (founded by Michael Meyer - who is NOT a veteran) has repeatedly issued calls to “penetration drill” and sabotage NEXRAD Doppler radar installations, labeling them as instruments of government weather manipulation

“We intend to take as many NexRads offline as possible once our attack simulations have prepared us,” Meyer wrote on Telegram, alluding to a plan of attack starting in August of this year.

The consequences go well beyond vandalism, though.

Emergency response systems, agricultural planning, and climate research—each depends on the integrity of meteorological data.

Undermining these systems in the name of pseudoscience doesn’t just endanger scientific understanding; it endangers lives.

Undermining science itself threatens humanity’s longevity on this planet.