How do you go from

No, I just don’t flat out refuse to believe weather modification has been and still is a very real thing.

to

convince us that there’s a widespread conspiracy to manipulate weather and cause things like hurricanes and the Texas flood?

By lumping weather modification (as another user posted, like silver nitrate) together with what you claim I meant (which I don't, that's ridiculous) you keep the discussion stigmatized. The fact that some known experiments don't seem harmful at the first glance doesn't mean other, harmful, chemicals aren't used. We don't know because there is any department or agency that oversees such things. That's what it's all about. There should be full transparency about these things.