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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (8 children)

How exactly do they plan to enforce it?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Frivolous lawsuits over steam in the air are incoming...

But also: RIP crop dusters in TN.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

The bill forbids "intentional injection, release, or dispersion" of chemicals into the air.

Instead it broadly prohibits "affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight".

This bill is obviously based in ignorance, but from an envirinmental/pollution standpoint this seems like a good thing. It's not their intention, but it sounds like it would protect the atmosphere from potential real polluters.

Edit: based in ignorance in the sense that some people supported the bill to ban "chem trails" (an ignorant position). Not in the sense that weather manipulation isn't real.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

Um, no it's not. There are legit weather manipulating programs. Not the conspiracy chem trails bs, but legit "weather manipulation isn't illegal, so private companies have started getting into it for creating snow on mountains or clearing the sky before a concert" things. It made the news awhile back when a, I believe, California company, started doing it.

Beijing did it before the Olympics. It wasn't a secret by any means.

As it stands now, there is very little regulation in that area if the things you are spraying aren't already considered toxic substances. But should just anyone be able to manipulate the weather? Won't that cause more widespread issues? Maybe, maybe not. But should we leave that decision in the hands of corporations?

ETA: If you want to know more, start by looking up "cloud seeding". You'll see we've been openly testing it for decades. Source: Google

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. Can we uno reverse this to shut down companies who are egregious polluters? Please say we can.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Right? My first thought was "how the fuck did Eastman let this one slip through?"

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