[citation needed] The theory has been dismissed by the scientific community and mainstream media as fringe science or pseudoscience.
[1][2] The 2011–2017 drought inspired alarm among many, leading to the emergence of conspiracy theories purporting to explain the cause of a complex problem using oversimplified and non-evidence-based explanations.
Others say that technologies similar to HAARP (a federal ionospheric research program, which was decommissioned in 2015),[4] are being used to create a large and stubborn high-pressure area over the West Coast of the United States.
Wigington said that government agencies and other entities have economic and geopolitical motivations to manipulate the weather on the West Coast and elsewhere.
[2] Proponents have claimed credibility for the theory, in part, as a result of a Los Angeles County cloud seeding program, begun in early 2016.