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Texas cloud seeding operation triggers conspiratorial outrage after deadly floods
Conspiracy theories about weather modification programs are surging online amid a torrent of misinformation following tragic flash floods that struck the US state of Texas on July 4, 2025, with posts across platforms claiming a local cloud seeding operation triggered the rainstorms.
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser and an election denier, who pleaded guilty to lying ...
Cloud seeding operations have covered about one-sixth of Texas, spanning approximately 31 million acres across the Northwest, ...
The Trump administration is working carefully to stamp out conspiracy theories about "weather modification," wading into a viral, recurring debate that reignited in the wake of Texas' deadly flooding.
Scientists blame unusually warm oceans, not cloud seeding, for Texas and North Carolina floods. Yet state lawmakers seek to ban geoengineering, though no such projects exist in North Carolina.
"Cloud seeding is for a tiny cloud—not a 4,000,000,000,000 gallon flood." In January, I teamed up with @VICENews to explain why cloud seeding is entirely unrelated to floods.
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