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.
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“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.”
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!
Alas “express purpose” is in there. Clearly the express purpose for petrol companies is profit. And CO2, other pollutants are just inadvertent things that happened on the way to (destroying the planet for) profit. I mean they only sold the petrol products, they didn’t force people that purchased the gasoline to burn it. Maybe we can go after the combustion engine producers?
So one could say they hobby at creating potassium iodide, but its expensive to pay to dispose of, so I dump it out of the back of an aircraft that was hired. There was no intention of actually seeding the clouds and making it rain, right?
So it would affect research like this https://research.noaa.gov/injecting-light-reflecting-particles-into-the-stratosphere-could-also-make-marine-clouds-brighter/
All pollution?!? Make all pollution illegal?!?!?
That’s what it is, right?
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.
Felony to operate your air conditioner. Awesome
What an absolute fucking idiot.
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)
She’ll be re-elected because her district is very white, very rural, and very disinformed by sources like Fox News, Newsmax, and conservative AM talk radio. On the rare occasions that the democrats bother to run someone in her district they tend to get less than 30% of the vote. And, if there were ever a danger that the seat might be close, the borders would be adjusted to ensure it stays safely Republican.
The problem goes much deeper than voting or not voting.
Came here to say this.
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So would preventing “geoengineering” also prevent trying to stop climate change?
She only knows that word because someone told her today
She’s a bloody idiot
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.
THEY will tell you when YOU broke the law. Then “deport” you to a private funded prison in a foreign country.
They embrace the invisible. You have no defense against their claims.
Written nebulously to cancel environmental efforts, I’m sure.
Bingpot.
Or like, a river flooding
If this unintentionally regulates greenhouse gas emissions I’m going to laugh so hard.
Express purpose probably saves them. The express purpose is to vent externalities
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
This is performative ignorance, to please the home schooled bible toting cretins who vote.
Right, it makes more sense
Misting fans are now a felony
AC units blackmarket about to blow up
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.
This is a bill to arrest people trying to prevent climate change.
How so ?
While geoengineering isn’t really something that has been tried yet, it’s actual purpose if done would be to address climate change. Albiet, not really prevention but more in a canceling out some of the symptoms sense.
Geoengineering is a field dedicated to exactly that - mitigating climate change by modifying solar input and so forth.
Basically, the Republicans have been shooting the environment and now want to ban tourniquets and sutures.
Preventing something like this:
Don’t worry, they’ll figure it out later
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.
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.
What is it about this current admin, and the secretary of HHS that makes you think that today isn’t already that day?
Well, I mean, literally getting that representation on that particular issue. Like when Marge is repping the HAARP and chemtrail type of nuts.
So go after the bullshit corpos releasing megatons of co2 into the atmosphere
That’s not for the express purpose of altering the weather. That’s just a lucky happenstance for ol’ Marge.
So, she wants to ban “cloud seeding”?
It’s that psudo-science anyway? And I think only done in the rich parts of the middle east.
It’s not pseudoscience.
You can totally blast a cloud to make it drop out of the sky. I’m pretty sure we figured that out before airplanes
Oh so she’s going to just straight up kill Texas completely. Interesting.
It’s not pseudo-science. The science behind it is solid. But, weather is very chaotic. It’s known to work to a certain extent, but it has relatively minor effects, it’s very unpredictable, has unpredictable side effects, and is fairly expensive. All you’re really doing is slightly boosting the formation of ice crystals in the clouds by adding a material that will hopefully produce more nucleation sites. It works in a lab, but how well it works up in the atmosphere is unknown. It probably does something, but it’s very hard to get an estimate of your “bang for the buck”.
For example, Beijing tried it during the 2008 Olympics to reduce the chances of rain during the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies. There was a moderate chance of rain predicted to happen during the opening ceremony. The government launched more than 1000 rain dispersal rockets, and it didn’t rain during the opening ceremony. Did the rockets disperse the rain? Or did it simply not rain because that’s not how the clouds developed. Who can say?
The only “weather modification machines” are fossil fuel powered energy plants. We should join together with MTG to outlaw them.
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.
These aren’t serious people.
They’re decreasing the food, so they gotta increase the circus
We dont live in a serious nation.
If I could control the weather, this woman would never not be getting targeted by lightning. She’d have to run serpentine whenever she was outside to dodge all the lightning bolts aimed at her.
Calm down Zeus. You’re getting another unhealthy attraction to a mortal woman.
Laughs in Final Fantasy X
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.
You just know they won’t touch those companies because how else are they gonna get their bribe money?
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…
Laws aren’t auto-enforcing magic. Any time that fossil fuel companies violate this stupid law (written for purely performative reasons) it simply wouldn’t be enforced.
Similarly, if the law allows for civil action, a multitude of reasons would be conjured on demand explaining why the lawsuit couldn’t move forward against fossil fuel companies. If it managed to move through district courts, it would simply wind up on the supreme court docket and they would again conjure up some reasons why the suit was invalid.
I thought she’d prioritize dealing with sharknado attacks but there we have it.
Immigrantnado!
The new conservative horror film
You’re a genious. That is hilarious and my only upset is that I didn’t think of it myself.
