Another unearthed post from Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s
Facebook page shows that her taste for conspiracy theories knows no bounds.
In a post that the watchdog group
Media Matters uncovered Thursday, the Georgia Republican posited that solar energy collected in space and beamed back to Earth is what sparked California’s worst wildfire.
Greene, the newly elected congresswoman known for supporting the outlandish QAnon conspiracy theory, posted the bizarre solar energy theory as the 2018
Camp Fire raged in Paradise, California, and became the deadliest and most destructive blaze in state history.
“[T]here are too many coincidences to ignore,” Greene claimed in her post.
″[O]ddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires, and pictures and videos,” she said in a claim widely debunked as
complete nonsense.
It’s a fool’s errand to try to make sense of Greene’s “research,” as she called it, but it goes something like this: The Northern California utility provider PG&E partnered with a company called Solaren Corp. in 2009 to buy solar space energy captured on satellite solar panels. (That much is
true.) But Greene suggested that lasers beaming the energy back to the Earth missed their mark and started a wildfire. She also suggested the fire-setting was intentional as a way to clear land for California’s stalled high-speed rail project.
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