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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] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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

Could the bill be used to base measures on that help combat climate change? Sometimes idiots are actually useful.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Does this make "Rollin' coal" illegal?

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

Next up is a bill to shoot every remaining unicorn

[-] [email protected] 166 points 3 days 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] 23 points 3 days ago

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

That’s what it is, right?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Felony to operate your air conditioner. Awesome

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

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?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 4 points 2 days 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.

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[-] [email protected] 118 points 3 days ago

What an absolute fucking idiot.

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[-] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days 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] 10 points 2 days 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] 5 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Geoengineering… like fracking?

Or like building man-made lakes and tunnels? What about digging a pool in my backyard?

[-] [email protected] 77 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago

She only knows that word because someone told her today

She's a bloody idiot

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days 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] 9 points 2 days ago

Does this include using a sharpie to control a hurricane?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days 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.

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

Misting fans are now a felony

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Does it include the pollutants coming from her private jet ?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days 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] 31 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days 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] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 9 points 2 days ago

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

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

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

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Why is mtg still able to talk?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

So go after the bullshit corpos releasing megatons of co2 into the atmosphere

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

So, she wants to ban "cloud seeding"?

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

Go get 'em, Marge. Champion of the dummies.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days 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] 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They will be happy to ban space exploration actually. Half of them believe there is a firmament there anyway.

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