Florida introduces anti-chemtrail bill
Florida introduces bill to ban "weather modification"
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22744169
Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia has introduced legislation to prohibit "weather modification" activities in the state.
The airlines should immediately halt service to the entire state if this goes in to effect. Why waste the time and money defending yourself against these conspiracies.
the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, the weather, or the intensity of sunlight is prohibited.
it doesn't affect them.
It's stupid as fuck but is slightly saved by being worded as to be utterly and completely toothless.
And again I'm grateful that I'm not from the US. I know dumb people are everywhere but you clearly have loudest.
So, a plane that dumps water onto a fire is dispersing a chemical (water) with the express purpose of controlling the temperature. So firefighting planes would be illegal under this bill.
Sure is a good thing that florida doesn't have forest fires... RIGHT?
Does this affect Jewish space lasers at all? Asking for a friend
Yes, but not other faiths' space lasers, I heard the rastafarian space laser is totally dope
I feel sorry for all the entrepreneurs and employees in the chemtrail industry.
Imagine that you're flying a chemtrailer and then a wild $10000 fee appears out of nowhere, and there's a shark. Are you going to choose the shark? Nobody would. I guess a fine of $1000 is just the cost of doing chemtrail business now.
And here am I remebering the last hurricane devastating Florida, thinking: "You probably need some weather manipulation more then others..."
Then is not than
Neither is it thin.
The bill was filed on November 20 by Garcia, a Republican
Was anyone really unsure of her party affiliation by this point in the article?
So shut down all coal and gas power plants.
wow I didn't expect this to pass before the anti-Sasquatch legislation did but here we are
These bills are always branded as being "anti-chemtrail," because it gets more clicks but they are banning a real thing that actually exists. The idea of chemically altering the atmosphere to address global warming is something that scientists have seriously considered and experimented with, but the general consensus is that while the concept is possible, the risks outweigh the benefits. On the other hand, there are certain irresponsible groups of techbros like Make Sunsets which have taken it into their own hands and have been releasing a bunch of sulfur into the stratosphere, to widespread criticism from actual scientists, while they try to present themselves as an environmentalist charity.
So there is a real thing that they're targeting, but also, it's not going to do anything since the restrictions only apply within a given jurisdiction. At most, it might prevent certain universities and such from conducting tests (which isn't an inherently bad thing given the dangers).
What it comes down to is basically the same formula as the whole "eating bugs" and "15 minute cities" things. Somebody gets paid to come up with a solution to climate change that doesn't involve interfering with capitalism in any way, they come up with some out of the box idea that might help a little - then reactionaries latch onto that, because as they all "know," climate change isn't real, so whatever weird idea anyone comes up with must be the real reason why the global elites are spreading the myth.
Of course, conservatives probably aren't concerned about this concept for the same reasons scientists are, and I'm sure there's conspiracy theories out there that do go the whole chemtrail route with it, but hey. They kinda sorta accidentally have a little bit of a point on this one.
Yeah, there's that little legitimate concern that gets washed into the conspiracy theory. It's gotta be intentional. Proponents of weather alteration bans can find lengthy descriptions of TINY weather modification operations to fuel the idea that chemtrails are real, opponents roll their eyes because obviously chemtrails aren't real and brush off the idea that a part might be true, so they don't even engage with the proponents.
Does this prohibit people from shooting at the clouds to scare them away?
Wait till the Samsquantch hears about this
wat.
This has more implications than I think most realize. This would also prevent climate engineering or hurricane avoidance efforts. I wouldn’t want just anybody to try these kinds of things without a lot of effort to understand the consequences and public debate, but this seems pretty short sighted.
I thought we were using nuclear weapons for that.
I mean, that's fine. No one is doing that anyway, so it won't affect anything. It's like banning post-birth abortion.
Several states use cloud seeding to deal with drought among other things. It's not used in Florida currently, but it might be a useful tool to deal with the effects of climate change in the future.
So no more releasing CO2 or CH4 (chemicals) into the atmosphere then?
I wish! They worded it such that the burning of fossil fuels and other things leading to the eradication of humanity through climate change are exempt 😮💨
But we know for sure that these chemicals are modifying the weather!
I guess, crazy people just need to shout at clouds sometimes.