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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I have a problem with people spraying perfume around me sometimes, don't you have a problem with people spraying things into the atmosphere that really have no type of empirical data, that you just don't know who they are or what they're doing?" said Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Coral Gables, the bill's sponsor, on Thursday morning.

Suddenly no longer a climate change denier.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sweet Sweet Florida. They sure do make them dumb down there.

[–] Franklin@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Given the education reforms, that's the idea.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As someone who works for a defense contractor, I like to tell people chemtrails are real just to sow chaos. To add credibility, I refer people to an early test version:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Florida doesn't particularly need cloud seeding(they get plenty of rain and don't need to increase snowpack on the mountains they don't have), so it's kind of a useless exercise. The places that do do it mostly seem to be wasting their time though. The climate change attempts to increase albedo and thus lower temperature are just research exercises at this point.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Cloud seeding is only a couple steps above dowsing in its efficacy. It rarely works to do anything. There is a basic principle that is true regarding cloud condensation nuclei, but the methods are so haphazard that it's still mostly just "doing something" to make people feel better. It's basically our equivalent of the Mayan elite rituals encouraging rains for the corn harvest.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I agree, though increasing snowpack seems to be the most plausible idea, though still a greatly wasted effort.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think this is a really shitty bill, but not for the reasons people are assuming. The actual wording is against cloud seeding, but DeSantis is trying to win over his crazies by implying it's for "chemtrails." We're kind of falling for it too here.

"Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities" (SB 56), prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance or an apparatus into the atmosphere in Florida to affect the temperature, weather, climate or intensity of sunlight. It was OK'd 28–9.

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[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

This is what they're doing? Friggin' idiots! Why don't they tackle the real problems?!

It is still perfectly legal to be a werewolf!

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 30 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Alternatively phrased: Florida proposes ban on planes from flying in or over it.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

That would be some incredible malicious compliance. “We couldn’t make sure our planes didn’t leave ‘chem trails,’ so we just don’t fly to your state anymore.”

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If any state in America needed to be declared a no-fly zone…

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do states even have "sovereign airspace"?

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Only prop planes allowed

Or they could ban condensation I suppose

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyday I think I've heard the stupidest thing come out of the US, and they somehow trump it the very next day. Remarkable.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please don't judge us all by Florida's actions. In turn, we won't judge you by the dumbest 0.1% of your country's population.

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

About 6.63% of the U.S. pop lives in Florida.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

And they make up the bottom 0.1% of relative intelligence

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

In the spirit of the USA, "Shots fired"

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 89 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thing that doesn't happen is now illegal, got it. Glad to see Florida tackling the big problems facing its citizens.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I want them to pass this.

It would be interesting how they would enforce it.

Would they ban all planes? Or maybe just ignore the law? Or maybe start saying "these are not chemtrails, these are contrails, those are ok".

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[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 25 points 1 month ago

I would normally agree with you but… this is legitimately something the constituents want. They are scared of the chem trails. Regardless that they aren’t real. To the voters it looks like the politicians are stepping up and doing what needs to be done.

It’s kinda terrifying.

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I seriously hope they pass this. And then I want to see them start using it against airlines.

[–] Pandemanium@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

And crop dusting, ffs. Spraying actual chemicals on our food is totally fine for these people.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Conservatives seem to think all contrails are "chemtrails"
Florida's tourist economy is going to collapse when no one can fly there unless they're in a prop plane.
I'm happy for them though, they've really earned it.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

Chemtrails are hardly a political thing, c'mon. Though being uneducated and thinking science is akin to religion is a conservative thing.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Props can have contrails, too. Just can't fly anymore.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You could keep flying any plane, but they would be capped at a 20,000ish feet flight ceiling while in Florida airspace. Which would make traffic a lot worse and the flights significantly more expensive.

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago
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[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Bro, that's like middle school science

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In 1996 a cropduster was an American hero. Thirty years later, he’d be arrested for terrorism just doing his job.

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