A congressional subcommittee spent nearly two hours on Tuesday discussing the rarely practiced but frequently talked about science of weather modification.
Original title: Fact-checking what lawmakers said during congressional weather modification hearing
The ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., questioned both the motives and the appropriateness of the hearing.
“There’s a more insidious issue here, which I think we’ve already heard in some of the comments, which is the using of the platform of Congress to propel anti-science theories to platform climate denialism and to ultimately put our communities at risk by continuing to put out disinformation,” Stansbury said.
Original title: Fact-checking what lawmakers said during congressional weather modification hearing