Writing on X, the Republican politician said she was creating legislation that would make “the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity” a felony.

“I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity,” she wrote. “It will be a felony offense.”

She added: “We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering.”

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    All this is gonna stop is cloud seeding, since that is literally the only way in which we manipulate the weather.

    Well… On purpose, I mean. If this has the side effect of outlawing all greenhouse emissions because it’s altering the weather in form of making shit hotter, that’s a win.

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    There is a nugget of ‘truth’ here:

    https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2023/390_1107.html

    I can’t find my good source on tis, but there are very real proposals to seed the arctic or antarctic with aerosols to stem a runaway greenhouse gas effect.

    It’s horrific. It would basically rain down sulfiric acid onto the terrain; even worse than it sounds. But it would only cost billions, not trillions of other geoengineering schemes I’ve scene.

    …And the worst part is it’s arctic/climate researchers proposing this. They intimately know exactly how awful it would be, which shows how desperate they are to even publish such a thing.

    But I can totally understand how a layman (maybe vaguley familiar with chemtrail conspiracies) would come across this and be appalled, and how conservative influencers pounce on it cause they can’t help themselves.

    Thanks to people like MTG, geoengineering efforts will never even be considered. :(


    TL;DR Scientists really are proposing truly horrific geoengineering schemes “injecting chemicals into the atmosphere” out of airplanes. But it’s because of how desperate they are to head off something apocalyptic, and it’s not even close to being implemented. They’re just theories and plans.

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    I’ll rotfl my mao off when this law will turn out to accidentally punish fossil fuel and chemical companies dispersing chemicals or substances into the atmosphere and altering weather, also known as climate change.

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      You just know they won’t touch those companies because how else are they gonna get their bribe money?

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        I bet some megaMAGAmorons will embark on a quest to prove their nonsense right… and in the end find out it was the same companies that polluted the air, water and soil whos CEOs are buddybuddy with their beloved leader…

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    I thought she’d prioritize dealing with sharknado attacks but there we have it.

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    And thus more time and money is wasted…

    Wasn’t there some doge tip site where Americans could post this?

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      Express purpose probably saves them. The express purpose is to vent externalities

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      It would be beautiful if this dimwit bumbled her way into making the world a better place…but we’re probably in the wrong timeline for that

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    I can see how people in the future could turn this one around on to oil and plastic companies. We should probably not stop this one.

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    Cool

    Injection of sulfuric acid into the atmosphere (and maybe other solutions) may, at some point, be a requirement for humans and the entire biodome to survive global warming. It won’t fix it, but it may delay it enough for us to apply other solutions.

    But fucked up mtg of course wants humanity to die out so here we are

    It’s amazing to see how many stupid people are out there

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    I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity,”

    So carbon dioxide? Guess we better shut down the coal power plants. MTG says so!

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    The only “weather modification machines” are fossil fuel powered energy plants. We should join together with MTG to outlaw them.

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      I mean, technically we’ve been playing around with cloud seeding and such which is about the only thing I can think of that would even come close to what she is talking about. But it’s by no means a common occurrence.