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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are many, many layers of stupid stacked here, but at the same time, this bill is quite sweeping and potentially dangerous. You might be opposed to the idea of manipulating atmospheric composition to fight climate change and it's certainly not something we might want to just go ahead and do, but it is a possibility that's worth exploring and ultimately might become a necessity. This bill kills any attempt to even experiment with this kind of technology, at least in the affected legislature.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

Geo engineering is absolutely not something we want to look into. As if we could forsee the consequences, as if any one country has the right to decide to affect the entire world's weather, and as if we could trust the companies that are doing this.

They have a meeting every year in Switzerland, where they huddle up and go over their plans, coordinate on selling to governments, pr, all that. Epstein pal and childfucker Bill Gates is one of them. He is as convinced in the righteousness of pumping masses of sulphur dioxide in the upper atmosphere as he is of making roundup ready proprietary strains of crops to be able to use higher amounts of herbicides that systematically poison us, and every form of life, in entire watersheds. He invested in Monsanto, with his foundation at that, such a charitable contribution to society!

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

this is just to much on the nose with the old man yells at clouds.

[–] osanna@thebrainbin.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

aren't "chemtrails" clouds? they're banning clouds, right?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So the streaked Behind airplanes are basically clouds.

It’s condensation from the engine freezing around soot in the exhaust*.

They’re also talking about seeding rain clouds by dispersing silver iodide, potassium iodide or just dry ice.

Banning cloud seeding makes sense, since it affects everyone down stream, and that gets complicated. But the arrival blames, for example, the mystic camp flood on cloud seeding/chem trails and goes on to describe contrails as being cloud seeding- which isn’t a thing.

They also link increased aluminum, which isn’t used in cloud seeding, to problems with bees.

*it could also be, in certain situations, from air that’s fairly humid and right at a temperature/ pressure where the wing passing through it causes the ambient humidity to condense out into clouds, but that’s less common.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

HB25 provides a means for enforcement of the law under the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The Department would be required to establish a publicly available email address and online form for the reporting of violations. residents could also report what they believe to be violations by telephone or mail.

I wonder what the job of an ADEM Chemtrail Investigator will be like

Seems to me that this reporting system is ripe for comical levels of exploitation and spam. Which should absolutely be encouraged. We can’t be too careful about the scourge of dihydrogen monoxide.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a candidate for the easiest job in the world. “My job is to prevent something that doesn’t exist.” Okay. Sounds like a perfect nepotism gig for someone’s idiot relative.

“But the skies of today are not the skies of my youth,” Butler said.

No shit. There are more jets and more airports than there were in your youth.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

We're getting played

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The chemtrails aren't a thing, but in the legislators small mind, who would be behind them? Are they actually thinking that there's some private individual that is spending billions building a secret massive network of bribed pilots and bribed mechanics that are spraying such chemicals to change the weather or influence the people in some ways?

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Anything but admit that their #1 (and #2 and #3) favorite wizard either wanted a bunch of kids dead or was powerless to prevent it.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why ban them? What's in them?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

And the 5Gs

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