Earlier this week, Religious Right activist "Coach" Dave Daubenmire declared on his "Pass The Salt Live" webcast that the recent heavy rains in California were the result of "weather manipulation."
After suffering several years of drought, parts of California have experienced flooding in recent weeks due to a series of heavy rain storms, which Daubenmire claimed were being caused by unnamed forces manipulating the weather patterns.
Daubenmire likened it to using a vacuum to "create a river of water in the atmosphere that is now coming in storm after storm after storm over California," saying that it never made any sense how a state like California could experience a drought when it is located right on the ocean.
"The tinfoil hat tells me something is going on," he said.
Daubenmire returned to the idea of weather manipulation on his webcast today, which he streamed from a McDonald's where he reported that the sky outside was covered in a web of "chemtrails."
The chemtrails could not simply be condensation from airplanes, he argued, because when it is cold enough outside that you can see your breath, the vapor clouds dissipate quickly, whereas chemtrails remain in the sky for hours.
"They do these chemtrails a lot when there is rain in the forecast," Daubenmire said. "It's weather manipulation. There's a lot of things going on in this country that we gotta [talk about]."
