On California Fires, Marjorie Taylor Greene Offers Up Another Wacky Weather Control Conspiracy Theory

Did someone show Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Twisters? Is that what’s going on here?

On Sunday, the Georgia Republican took to social media to spin out her plan to tame the wildfires currently devastating Los Angeles and surrounding areas: Just make it rain, dummies.

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“Why don’t they use geoengineering like cloud seeding to bring rain down on the wildfires in California?” Greene tweeted. “They know how to do it.”

There’s a non-zero chance that Greene—who dined at Mar-a-Lago Sunday evening with President-elect Donald Trump, then posted about flying back into Washington, D.C., after being delayed by “unauthorized drone activity over the White House” (another conspiracy theory, another day, but at least she didn’t threaten to “shoot [them] down” this time)—really did see the 2024 sequel, starring Glen Powell, and go, “hey, wait a minute.” The new Twisters is currently part of American Airlines’ in-flight entertainment offerings, and the varied flight times between various airports in Greene’s home state of Georgia, Mar-a-Lago’s West Palm Beach International Airport, and Washington’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (all with routes serviced by American) would give Greene enough time to watch the bulk of Twisters’ two-hour and two-minute runtime while in transit, and maybe get some ideas.

For those who haven’t seen it, the plot of Twisters largely revolves around (fictional! very attractive!) scientists who have the goal of controlling destructive tornadoes via cloud seeding and polymers. These scientists use what amounts to a diaper cannon to sop up atmospheric moisture and get tornadoes dry and friction-free, like a baby’s booty. The plot has at least some basis in real scientific ideas—researchers really have studied how tornadoes might be tamed through the years—but a few liberties were taken.

Greene, who holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Georgia, has shown a passion for “meteorology” (if by “meteorology,” I mean absolutely bananas false ideas that conveniently ignore climate change). Back in October, she floated theories that Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene had been created and controlled by liberals to ensure that the storms’ paths of destruction only impacted red areas.

“Yes they can control the weather,” she tweeted. “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

She’s been at this for a long time: In 2018, amid an earlier spate of California wildfires, and before she was a member of Congress, Greene shared a long-winded theory on her Facebook blaming what can most succinctly be described as “Jewish space lasers.” (Her theory is a lot to unpack, but it’s an early case study in Greene doing her “own research.” She felt there were “too many coincidences to ignore” and yarnwalled the Rothschild family, unattributed anecdotes that “all these people” saw “what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires,” insider trading, and outer space into her speculation. Does the whole thing end with a shrugging emoji? You know it!)

This time, even hardcore Republicans are begging the congresswoman to hush. Texan Bo French, chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, the largest purple county in the U.S., brags in his bio on X (formerly Twitter) about his goal of “making Tarrant County inhospitable to Democrats.” Same team as Greene, ideologically. But French responded to Greene’s post with an exasperated-sounding tweet of his own, reading in part, “It doesn’t work like that. They can’t just manufacture rain out of thin air.”

And as for who “they” are, the mysterious entity Greene has repeatedly claimed controls the weather? We have a few educated guesses of who she means, based on her body of conspiracy theory work.

Vanity Fair did not receive a reply from Greene after repeated requests for clarifications on her theories, and who, exactly, “they” are.