We are all a product of our own information bubbles. If people get their information from Facebook or Talk Radio, then this is the type of information they may consume and if you keep telling people the same thing over and over, eventually enough will believe it.
The first I remember hearing about the government controlling the weather was Rush talking about the HAARP array and Obama shooting radio waves into the ionosphere to steer the weather around. Strange how when Trump was in office he never steered the storms away from Republican leaning areas, but now that Biden is in office, he is ramping them up and sending them straight for Republican voters because obviously election interference. No mention of global climate change or their own impacts on weather patterns.
I used to believe that global warming was all bunk myself, but eventually, my own eyes show me the proof. Storms are stronger now than they were 10-15-20-25 years ago. Gulf waters are much warmer than previously and the extremes of weather have become much more extreme. 100 year storms are now much more common. The Earth will correct herself, even if that means destroying the thing causing the warming by wiping out the human race.