cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22744169
Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia has introduced legislation to prohibit “weather modification” activities in the state.
I feel SO sorry for the few sane rational people in Florida some times.
Both of them?
No, fuck Dave
Is there enough time‽
Dave Barry? But he’s hilarious!
Come on now… there are tens of them.
The same people who think humans can’t alter the climate also claim that the government is controlling the weather.
Prohibit “weather modification”.
So are they banning Sharpies?
Worse: Weather modification, though possible, just doesn’t really work. People gave up on that back in the day.
Cloud seeding certainly does work and is used in many places to promote rainfall or redirect hail or rainfall to protect crops.
It certainly does work, until you look at numbers and they are either negligible, or great until they stop being great quickly.
https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/11/10/167 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207233.2024.2358707 https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmsj/102/4/102_2024-021/_article/-char/ja/
I would not call that a consensus on “it does work”.
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?
Well yeah, they rake their forests
“Fun” fact, “chemtrails” were used in the Soviet Union in 86’ right after the Chernobyl disaster to stop a radioactive cloud going to Moscow. They dumped a shitload of dry ice to make it rain. It rained over small villages which caused people there to get radiation sickness.
Fun “fact,” this was the inspiration for Prince’s Purple Rain.
That’s the most “fun” fact I heard in a long time
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
So shut down all coal and gas power plants.
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.
wow I didn’t expect this to pass before the anti-Sasquatch legislation did but here we are
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?
People can’t afford home insurance, seniors are being driven from their condos but let’s focus on a law addressing conspiracy theories. Next up, a law protecting big foot.
Nothing else to do at work but this. Must be nice.
The “Weather Modification Activities” bill sets out that “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.”
So, taking it at the closely-adjacent letter like how Repub trash interprets everything, all industry in the entire state must cease, including power generation.
