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'Chemtrails,' cloud seeding would be banned under bill passed by Florida Senate
(www.tallahassee.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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In 1996 a cropduster was an American hero. Thirty years later, he’d be arrested for terrorism just doing his job.
We learned a lot from the green revolution.
We should be arresting people for spraying chemicals that cause health issues in farm workers.
Condensation trails are not caused by spraying harmful chemicals.
Bro, that's like middle school science
Any middle school subject can be a high school subject if enough people fail at grasping the basics.
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Thing that doesn't happen is now illegal, got it. Glad to see Florida tackling the big problems facing its citizens.
I want them to pass this.
It would be interesting how they would enforce it.
Would they ban all planes? Or maybe just ignore the law? Or maybe start saying "these are not chemtrails, these are contrails, those are ok".
If the state decides to ignore any kind of court telling them otherwise, then I would imagine Florida would no longer have flyovers from any airline, and any aircraft capable of producing a contrail or wingtip vortex would no longer operate in the state.
Goodbye florida airports, I guess.
Contrails are generated by condensation of water vapor in engine exhaust. They’re not caused by wingtip vortices. All powered aircraft (besides electric ones) will generate contrails under the appropriate conditions. Contrail is in fact a contraction of “condensation trail”.
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I would normally agree with you but… this is legitimately something the constituents want. They are scared of the chem trails. Regardless that they aren’t real. To the voters it looks like the politicians are stepping up and doing what needs to be done.
It’s kinda terrifying.
Wait till you see what Florida has banned for gay folks on the basis of "things that dont happen"
I think Canada issued a travel advisory telling their queer citizens not to travel to Florida, due to the high risks
I seriously hope they pass this. And then I want to see them start using it against airlines.
Conservatives seem to think all contrails are "chemtrails"
Florida's tourist economy is going to collapse when no one can fly there unless they're in a prop plane.
I'm happy for them though, they've really earned it.
Props can have contrails, too. Just can't fly anymore.
You could keep flying any plane, but they would be capped at a 20,000ish feet flight ceiling while in Florida airspace. Which would make traffic a lot worse and the flights significantly more expensive.
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And crop dusting, ffs. Spraying actual chemicals on our food is totally fine for these people.
"I have a problem with people spraying perfume around me sometimes, don't you have a problem with people spraying things into the atmosphere that really have no type of empirical data, that you just don't know who they are or what they're doing?" said Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Coral Gables, the bill's sponsor, on Thursday morning.
Suddenly no longer a climate change denier.
The difference being we do know who they are and why they're doing it, it's just our leaders aren't doing enough to stop them because of "The Economy".
Is it also illegal for me to levitate? Or to move objects with my mind?
Well, cloud seeding is a real thing, but it's not a thing the US does, as far as I know.
I'm pretty sure there are a handful of states that cloud seed. It has nothing to do with the imaginary chem trails though.
I wonder if they'll outlaw dousing
See's man made cloud due to the action of cold metal ripping through the sky "ZOMG ITS TEH LIBS POISONING MY AIR" jumps in vehicle modified to spew toxic pitch black clouds at the push of a button and drunkenly crashes into the preschool "THIS AIN'T MY FAULT!"
Alternatively phrased: Florida proposes ban on planes from flying in or over it.
That would be some incredible malicious compliance. “We couldn’t make sure our planes didn’t leave ‘chem trails,’ so we just don’t fly to your state anymore.”
If any state in America needed to be declared a no-fly zone…
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Florida is also the place where a court decided that residents don't have a right to clean water.
meth is in the air, and water.
Everyday I think I've heard the stupidest thing come out of the US, and they somehow trump it the very next day. Remarkable.
Please don't judge us all by Florida's actions. In turn, we won't judge you by the dumbest 0.1% of your country's population.
About 6.63% of the U.S. pop lives in Florida.
And they make up the bottom 0.1% of relative intelligence
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I think this is a really shitty bill, but not for the reasons people are assuming. The actual wording is against cloud seeding, but DeSantis is trying to win over his crazies by implying it's for "chemtrails." We're kind of falling for it too here.
"Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities" (SB 56), prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance or an apparatus into the atmosphere in Florida to affect the temperature, weather, climate or intensity of sunlight. It was OK'd 28–9.
prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance or an apparatus into the atmosphere in Florida to affect the temperature, weather, climate or intensity of sunlight.
Huh, this makes the internal combustion engine illegal.
Water is a chemical. Complete combustion of a hydrocarbon produces water, water when dispersed into the atmosphere creates clouds. Clouds affect the temperature, weather, climate and intensity of sunlight. QED any burning of hydrocarbons is illegal.
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That also makes it illegal to nuke hurricanes
Maybe that's partly why they proposed getting it outlawed now before hurricane season, now that Mr. Hurricane Nuker is back in office, heh.
It's not illegal it just costs $10,000 (via a fine) to chemtrail people into gayness.
Sweet Sweet Florida. They sure do make them dumb down there.
Given the education reforms, that's the idea.
Jesus fucking Christ Almighty Lord above these people are fucking dumber than god damn bricks.
This is what they're doing? Friggin' idiots! Why don't they tackle the real problems?!
It is still perfectly legal to be a werewolf!
Morons.
you might as well go right out and say that having an education higher than a 5th grader should also be banned.
Republic of Gators, Delusion and Freedom, where they've persecuted immigrants so hard they're "easing" their child labor laws.
Florida doesn't particularly need cloud seeding(they get plenty of rain and don't need to increase snowpack on the mountains they don't have), so it's kind of a useless exercise. The places that do do it mostly seem to be wasting their time though. The climate change attempts to increase albedo and thus lower temperature are just research exercises at this point.
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