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Go get 'em, Marge. Champion of the dummies.
Would this... proposed legislation... mean that SpaceX will now be prohibited from flooding LEO with Starlink comsats?
Loading the upper atmosphere with ozone-destroying aluminum and other heavy metals as those things fall out of orbit, not to mention rapidly increasing light and RF pollution, definitely qualify as an uncontrolled geoengineering experiment, albeit one whose effects were known before launch. I could go on about the deleterious effects of these orbiting swarms, but - the ball's in your court, Congresswoman Greene.
They will be happy to ban space exploration actually. Half of them believe there is a firmament there anyway.
I haven’t read the article or comments yet. Just the post title. I am afraid of the amount of brain cells I am about to lose. I’m going in, will update in a moment.
Edit: what the fuck did I just read. A new bill to stop a conspiracy theory? MTG is dumb as a stone and I can’t comprehend how she is still in office
MTG is dumb as a stone and I can’t comprehend how she is still in office
Her voters are dumber than she is.
That's how she is still in office.
Could the bill be used to base measures on that help combat climate change? Sometimes idiots are actually useful.
Could it? Possibly. Would it? Probably not. At least not with big daddi T/ republicans in office. They deny the effects of pollutants in the atmosphere so there is no weather modification taking place (according to them). Considering that trump is taking away tax credits for solar and wind and is increasing leasing and tax credits for oil, gas, and coal industries I don’t think this bill will provide much benefit for the climate
It's like utterly humorless Art Bell fans took over the government.
Maybe they'll unintentionally outlaw pollution like when the Republicans accidentally legalized cannabis in 2018
Sadly, all it will take is some CEO to publicly state "I didn't intend to pollute the environment. I dumped dangerous chemicals into nature because I wanted more money. Yes, I knew my actions would modify the weather, as this legislation states. But that was not my express purpose. My purpose was to be able to afford my 17th yacht so my peers would accept me."
Perfectly legal.
Are they literally just laying the groundwork to frame Democrats for weather modifications so they can blame all of climate change on us and create a modern day witch hunt? Seriously? How the fuck is anyone stupid enough to believe this shit?
How the fuck is anyone stupid enough to believe this shit?
The American "education" system... that's how. Conservatives paid good money over the decades to build this level of general stupidity.
Geoengineering… like fracking?
Or like building man-made lakes and tunnels? What about digging a pool in my backyard?
Does this make "Rollin' coal" illegal?
Oh for fucks sake…. How can one woman be some incredibly dense?
She probably heard somewhere that is why there were flash floods in Texas because some evil genius is punishing “real Americans”.
The ironic thing is the GOP constant bashing of clean, renewable energy and promoting fossil fuels and coal really is affecting the weather, just not in a very predictable or controlled way.
This is the same moron that has long believed that the Jews control space lasers that manipulate the weather.
I am surprised it took her this long to make a move.
I mean who else wants to hurt God loving Texans other than the radical left? No one that's who. The radical left is lying to you about climate change so they can hide their secret Jewish space lasers and punish anyone on the right for speaking out. Like, if you're on the right you're not even allowed to speak anymore, at all, about anything. It's always the left agenda this, or left agenda that, bo one listens to the right anymore. The radical left terrorists have bullied the right with fake climate change so now when there's a national disaster the left can come out with their conspiracy theories about climate change when we really know what they're doing. The left terrorists hate America and want to destroy it by making more natural disasters, and making them more serious then lie to your face and call it climate change when it's really them who are causing natural disasters to change in our climate to silence the right.
~Hopefully obvious that is parody~
At this point she is trolling with legislation, this is not even legislation for financial profit, she is just doing it to fuck with the minds of people that support green energy transition against climate change. Pure malicious glee. I hope she faces mob justice at this point.
This reminds me, I need to sharpen my guillotine.
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.
Edit: Also I am reminded of the time some PR lady for HAARP said the array can manipulate the weather because, technically, it could punch a hole in clouds directly above it. Which I thought was just stupid, even as a joke, because they were trying to squash the rumors that it was some kind of hurricane machine.
You know it ain't. This is her trying to ban some conspiracy theory non existent weather device, just like the space laser she was crying about a couple years ago.
What's the worst that can happen, farmers face droughts and companies can't allow relief due to legality so the crops just die and we have food shortages? I mean that just hurts the farmers and the non-rich... So no fucks they will give
Does it include the pollutants coming from her private jet ?
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.
There was that guy that talked about various geoengineering schemes that we could consider if we are not going to do anything else. From 2007, by David Keith....
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_keith_a_critical_look_at_geoengineering_against_climate_change
"Scientists." I wonder how many are sponsored by fossil fuel extractors?
No, you misunderstand; it’s a sound scheme. I wouldn’t be against it.
…Which just underscores how horrific of a situation we are in. It’s an akin to “okay, a meteor is coming; what about this plan to deflect it into the arctic?”
Fossil fuel companies are lobbying for the “everything is fine” propaganda, not geoengineering schemes that indirectly reinforce how dangerously unstable the planet could be.
you and i both know that she is not talking about any actual scientific proposal
So glad we handed over all levers of power to these morons.
Does this include using a sharpie to control a hurricane?
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
Tbf, if it comes to that, any nation or cooperative group of nations can do this without US law doing a damn thing.
And thus more time and money is wasted...
Wasn't there some doge tip site where Americans could post this?
Oh, the blonde clown again!
But she has better looks than Deputy Doofy...
Is this the work of a syphilitic brain?
Depending on how climate change turns out for some regions, they will definitely come back to the topic of weather engineering. No rain for a year or two will do this for you.
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.
Laws aren't auto-enforcing magic. Any time that fossil fuel companies violate this stupid law (written for purely performative reasons) it simply wouldn't be enforced.
Similarly, if the law allows for civil action, a multitude of reasons would be conjured on demand explaining why the lawsuit couldn't move forward against fossil fuel companies. If it managed to move through district courts, it would simply wind up on the supreme court docket and they would again conjure up some reasons why the suit was invalid.
You just know they won't touch those companies because how else are they gonna get their bribe money?
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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