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Florida attorney general orders airports to report 'weather modification' activities (thehill.com)

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Dear people of Florida,

Please, please, please use this to force airports to report on their impacts on climate change.

Sincerely,

- everyone else

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Does this apply to commuter vehicles?

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I think i finally get it. This is how they're explaining the effects of climate change. They can deny the science all they want but they can't deny the results. Since they have to explain the crazy weather patterns, nothing like a ridiculous conspiracy theory to fill the slot.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Call them every time they see a plane with its engines on

[–] MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 8 points 2 months ago

Does this apply to chemtrails?

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

does this apply to the military scum?

[+] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works -15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dear fucknuts. This is what people mean with chemtrails. Yes, you don't see them. Yes I know what a contrail is.

If anything, fucknuts are geoenginering deniers. "Haha these idiots think they're getting sprayed with chemicals". No, I just don't flat out refuse to believe weather modification has been and still is a very real thing.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What would be the motivation

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To prevent rain on the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was an use? Go figure

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So a single use (asserted by you with no supporting evidence) should be enough to convince us that there's a widespread conspiracy to manipulate weather and cause things like hurricanes and the Texas flood? What evidence do you have that these were deliberate and not the natural results of fossil-fuel driven climate change (results that scientists have been warning about for 50 some odd years)?

What would be the reason for the larger scale instances that Republicans are claiming and who is doing it?

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

How do you go from

No, I just don’t flat out refuse to believe weather modification has been and still is a very real thing.

convince us that there’s a widespread conspiracy to manipulate weather and cause things like hurricanes and the Texas flood?

By lumping weather modification (as another user posted, like silver nitrate) together with what you claim I meant (which I don't, that's ridiculous) you keep the discussion stigmatized. The fact that some known experiments don't seem harmful at the first glance doesn't mean other, harmful, chemicals aren't used. We don't know because there is any department or agency that oversees such things. That's what it's all about. There should be full transparency about these things.

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They dumped silver nitrate on the clouds the day before so that would become heavy and rain.

This technology is widely known and was developed in the 1980s.

Its nothing to do with the water droplets trails that planes leave behind.

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Rereading my comment, I get the responses now. With the "No," I meant to affirm that I know what contrails are and I know ie. silver nitrate being sprayed from a plane wouldn't seem visible like an contrail.

I should've phrased it better.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If we could manipulate the weather, it wouldn't be getting worse by the year, fucknut.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

We can seed clouds to make them rain sooner. Some countries use this regularly. That’s the kernel of truth the conspiracy nuts build their conspiracy around.

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You refuse to acknowledge geoengineering?

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I refuse to acknowledge the ludicrous idea that humans are capable of intentionally and predictably controlling the weather. And I call out your blatantly dishonest attempt to twist the meaning of the word "geoengineering" in an attempt to make it appear that I said something I didn't. You're not just a fucknut, you're also a liar.