Weather modification - Playing God with the weather

Playing God with the Weather – A Disastrous Forecast

GOP Oversight subcommittee meeting took place on September, 16 2025

Chairwoman: Ms. Greene 

Article purpose: Highlight a need for transparency in weather modification practices both in the United States and throughout the world as part of water rights which is interconnected and problematic for Interstate and internationally.

This committee meeting was about cloud seeding, weather modification, our EPA exposing an honest assessment of what the United States' use of cloud seeding both for commercial and a history of military use of weather modification before a United Nations treaty in 1976. This article talks about this committee meeting and also relates the international use of weather modification and also highlights that the United Nations has banned the military use of weather modification and other hostile use of modifying the environment.

In the Chair's introduction she explained:

"Silver or lead iodide is used to try to increase rainfall in a specific location."

We plan to try to head off global warming 

• Remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

• Block the rays of the sun from hitting the earth

United States' Federal government history of weather modification

Military and General Electric 1947 

Intercept a hurricane off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.

US Army chemical fog in Saint Louis Missouri

US army admitted to spraying mysterious chemical fog over Saint Louis  Missouri neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s which residents now claim this is giving them cancer.

Project Storm Fury - weaken hurricanes

Series of efforts in the 60s and 70s seeding clouds with silver iodide to weaken hurricanes.

Operation Popeye - weaponizing the weather

Create monsoons to aid our military during the Vietnam war. 

Commercializing Weather Modification

Hedge Capitalists invest in companies like "Make sunsets" to inject aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space.

Clear Skies Act

The Clear Skies act was develope to regulate weather modification. 

Read more about the Clear Skies act at Congress.gov:

• HR 4403 (congress.gov bill)

• HR 4403 (congress.gov text) 

Weather Modification regulation in the United States

Only 2 states, Tennessee and Florida, currently ban weather modification. Currently, as of 6-10-2026, there are currently 18 states that have for-profit companies which operate unregulated.

Ranking member Ms. Stansbury agrees with most of the sentiment about weather modification and looks to regulate weather modification through the EPA.

United Nations prohibits military use of weather as a weapon

UN created a 1976 convention prohibiting "military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques".

Learn more about this Disarmament clause from United Nations convention treaty 1978 

International use of weather modification

China:  

• In 2008, China used it to try to stop rain from falling on Beijing's Olympic stadium.

• Sky River initiative in 2018 with the aim of alleviating water shortages and boosting the country's food security. Some are concerned about it may take away water from India needed for their needs downstream of the Tibetan plateau.

Read more about the international uses of weather modification:

Concerns over push for more rain (France24.com)