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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,”
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
So go after the bullshit corpos releasing megatons of co2 into the atmosphere
The only “weather modification machines” are fossil fuel powered energy plants. We should join together with MTG to outlaw them.
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.
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.
Marjorie Taylor Green is such a waste of resources.
Ugly, dumb and vile.
And I bet she stinks.
I thought she'd prioritize dealing with sharknado attacks but there we have it.
Why is mtg still able to talk?
Does this make "Rollin' coal" illegal?
Maybe they'll unintentionally outlaw pollution like when the Republicans accidentally legalized cannabis in 2018
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]
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.
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?
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.
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
Stop paying attention to her. Make sure the next thing you click on related to her, is footage of her murder.
So glad we handed over all levers of power to these morons.
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.
Does this include using a sharpie to control a hurricane?