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Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia has introduced legislation to prohibit “weather modification” activities in the state.
Wait till the Samsquantch hears about this
So shut down all coal and gas power plants.
And again I’m grateful that I’m not from the US. I know dumb people are everywhere but you clearly have loudest.
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.
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”.
Cloud seeding certainly does work
Does it?
Last I heard, the effectiveness is rather disputed.
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.
The same people who think humans can’t alter the climate also claim that the government is controlling the weather.
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.
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, 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
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?
“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
wow I didn’t expect this to pass before the anti-Sasquatch legislation did but here we are
Does this prohibit people from shooting at the clouds to scare them away?
Hope it passes so everyone flying a jet plane over Florida that leaves a contrail or agricultural spraying has to go to court to get the fine dismissed.
No more planes into or out of Florida doesn’t sound like the worst outcome to me.