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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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 23 minutes ago

Does this make "Rollin' coal" illegal?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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~

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour 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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Does it include the pollutants coming from her private jet ?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

This reminds me, I need to sharpen my guillotine.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Does this include using a sharpie to control a hurricane?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

you and i both know that she is not talking about any actual scientific proposal

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

"Scientists." I wonder how many are sponsored by fossil fuel extractors?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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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[-] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 62 points 19 hours ago

If this unintentionally regulates greenhouse gas emissions I’m going to laugh so hard.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

And thus more time and money is wasted...

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 154 points 1 day ago

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!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Felony to operate your air conditioner. Awesome

[-] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago

All pollution?!? Make all pollution illegal?!?!?

That’s what it is, right?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity,

I'm sure I've seen MTG breathing on her hands in cold weather, which falls into the above perfectly.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 112 points 1 day ago

What an absolute fucking idiot.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

She will get reelected by the citizens of northeast Georgia because they vote.

Do you?

(More of a comment to the average reader, not an attack on OP)

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

All the fucking stupidest people. Every goddamn idiotic conspiracy theory is getting a pipeline straight to mainstream news outlets and a rep in government now. Instead of some stupid Bircher literature or having to stand out on the street and screech nonsense at passerby who could just ignore the crazy people...

I am seriously wondering when the moon landing denialists and the flat earth morons and the HIV-denialists will get their day of representation, too.

We already have the anti-vaxxer dumbfucks, the Qanon loons, the evolution-denying dipshits, what else is missing...? How about David Icke level bullshit about lizard people?

JFC.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Tbf, if it comes to that, any nation or cooperative group of nations can do this without US law doing a damn thing.

[-] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago

So would preventing “geoengineering” also prevent trying to stop climate change?

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago

She only knows that word because someone told her today

She's a bloody idiot

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

I honestly can't tell whether her intent is to block any counter-climate change projects or if this is just a dumb chemtrails thing.

I mean, I assume it's chemtrails, given the source, but it could easily be a "I like the smell of forest fires, and you'll reduce hurricane intensity over my dead body." Given the source.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago

Why is mtg still able to talk?

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

This is performative ignorance, to please the home schooled bible toting cretins who vote.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Misting fans are now a felony

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

Stop paying attention to her. Make sure the next thing you click on related to her, is footage of her murder.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

This is awesome. Do it. What’s gonna happen when the contrails don’t disappear? Who are they gonna arrest? Gonna have to stock up on popcorn because the theatre of the ignorant is about to get really interesting. Finally a piece of legislation I can get excited about.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

This is a bill to arrest people trying to prevent climate change.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago

She's attempting to ban Geoengineering. From Wikipedia:

Geoengineering (also known as climate engineering or climate intervention) is the deliberate large-scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system intended to counteract human-caused climate change.[1] The term commonly encompasses two broad categories: large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation modification (SRM). CDR involves techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and is generally considered a form of climate change mitigation. SRM aims to reduce global warming by reflecting a small portion of sunlight (solar radiation) away from Earth and back into space. Although historically grouped together, these approaches differ substantially in mechanisms, timelines, and risk profiles, and are now typically discussed separately.[2]: 168 [3] Some other large-scale engineering proposals—such as interventions to slow the melting of polar and alpine ice—are also sometimes classified as forms of geoengineering.

Some types of geoengineering present political, social and ethical issues. One common objection is that focusing on these technologies could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Effective governance and international oversight are widely regarded as essential.

Major scientific organizations have examined the potential, risks, and governance needs of geoengineering, including the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,[4][5][6] the Royal Society,[7] the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),[8] and the World Climate Research Programme.[1]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Can you guys please try to elect some people that will actually do the job they are voted on to do instead of waste everyone's time and accomplish nothing. Tearing shit down is incredibly easy, building shit up takes decades. You ha e severely fucked yourselves over and destroyed all the work of the past 50-75 years of being a country in the modern world. Y'all are fucked and still talking about the next vote like it even fucking matters anymore. America is fucking gone man, you just don't realize it yet.

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