Several US states want to criminalise atmospheric experiments, which could prevent meteorological studies
Conspiracy theories about weather manipulation go back centuries and are more dangerous than you might think.
In the ninth century, St Agobard of Lyon wrote a treatise called On Hail and Thunder attacking the popular superstition that storm-raisers could call up tempests at will. Bizarrely, these magicians were supposedly paid by aerial sailors from the land of Magonia, who sailed in the clouds and collected the crops destroyed by hail and storms.
