Is The Government Controlling The Weather?

08/07/2025 16 min

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Episode Synopsis

After flash floods devastated Texas last week, Americans on all sides of the political spectrum were served misinformation, half-truths and, in some cases, conspiracy theories. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other conspiracy theorists blamed "cloud seeding" while some liberals blamed DOGE cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service.Taylor Lorenz and Jordan Uhl discuss the ways people warped the conversation for personal and political gain.