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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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[–] GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

@RememberTheApollo_

OMG I think this is an opening for an absolutely different kind of green new deal. Wait till she finds out how the weather is being modified (can somebody tell her that Elon Musk’s data center is running the numbers and doing it?)

And I’m going to have to ask now that the Republicans are in charge of everything with the next big disaster occurs. What is she gonna do?

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days 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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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

anything but the real issue

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Seriously fuck this idiot and the idiots who voted for her. Just a disgraceful embarrassment. Then again so is work, so I get it, but have some dignity.

[–] pawnfuture@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

These people are dumb as rocks. There are also similar elements in GA like Kandiss Taylor(stupid name) beginning their political careers also proclaiming that Climate Change is fake but also suggesting that unprecedented weather conditions must be the work of external forces presumably also blaming the jews.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

This reminds me, I need to sharpen my guillotine.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I will fuckin love if she fucks around and discovers climate change

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

wow that's quite a twist, USA is going green! Right?

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thats what I'm understanding. Finally someone willing to take on the Fossil Fuel Industry

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[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And thus more time and money is wasted...

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

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 6 points 5 days ago

Wonder if this could be used against fossil fuel or chemical companies. The only words that would need to be dropped is "express purpose"

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why the fuck did we thaw her?

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (6 children)

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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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Could MTG accidentally tackle climate change ? that would be amazing

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, this bill would actually do the opposite. While expert opinion seems to vary on the subject of geoengineering and its attendant risks, it might become a necessary tool for tackling climate change. The standard theory is that we could disperse aresolized materials at high altitudes that would increase atmospheric albedo (reflectivity) to reduce the amount of sunlight absorbed by the atmosphere. This wouldn't be permanent, but it could buy us time as we work on decarbonizing.

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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's because MAGA is spreading conspiracies that geoengineering is to blame for the Texas flood.

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this is stupid, but it's it a wolf in sheep's clothing to ban any policy against climate change?

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

It's like utterly humorless Art Bell fans took over the government.

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