The House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on “Delivering on Government Efficiency” held a hearing on Tuesday titled, Playing God with the Weather – a Disastrous Forecast,” where experts called for more regulation on what is called “geoengineering,” the deliberate alteration of climate and control of weather. Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, testified that this technology is dangerous and the unintended results of its unrestricted use could be disastrous. “Weather modification activities have been widely implemented in the United States and around the world for 70 years,” he said. “Many decades ago, weather modification was called weather control. Nobody calls it weather control anymore, because scientists understand that controlling the weather is simply not possible.” “Despite the long track record of experience with operational weather modification activities, the effectiveness of weather modifying activities for actually modifying the weather is unknown. A hypothesis worth exploring systematically would be whether the precise quantification of the outcomes associated with weather modification is even possible, given the scientific record.” “Congress should enact legislation to improve oversight of weather modification activities, including first requesting an assessment from the national academy of sciences that precisely quantifies what is known and unknown about the effectiveness of weather modification projects to date, and clarifying the prospects for ever being able to achieve certainty in quantifying that effectiveness [and] improving the required reporting and communicating of weather modification activities.” “Under the 1972 law that defines weather modification in the United States. Congress should standardize U.S. Federal law governing weather modification, ensuring that all states are governed by identical legislative authority,” he said.
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