Should be easy, considering they don't exist to begin with.
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Shush. We're this close to getting them to tax contrails, which would effectively be a tax on jet fuel.
No, you can fly to avoid the creation of contrails. Ironically, would actually be a boon for the environment, since contrail clouds are massive greenhouse generators https://youtube.com/shorts/qBPwloCdRKw
I thought they were just condensation?
Yes, but the phenomenon occurs at specific altitudes, so you just fly slightly higher or lower.
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Depends on your definition of "chemical". Technically all trails are chem trails, including hiking trails.
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until they decide enforcement means no contrails at all and suddenly they've found a new and exciting way to economically ruin the country.
Contrails are mostly water vapour that's condensed due to the hot exhaust of airplane engines.
They are certainly not completely avoidable, they are likely inescapable without sacrificing significant fuel efficiencies (eg: all methods stealth fighters use to suppress or mask their exhaust heat signature).. which would negate any benefits to global warming.
P. s. I'm not going to watch a YouTube video that could be a few paragraphs of textual explanation, because it'll no doubt be eight times longer than it needs to be for the benefit of more ad money or promotion in the almighty algorithm.
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How are we this stupid?
3-4 decades of purposefully undermining public education
More like 5-7 decades.. "anti-nerd" culture has been popular since about the 50's
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A large portion of people are stupid, it's sad
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How do you think the conspiracy nuts will react if this bill becomes law and then there are just as many contrails in the sky as before?
Depends. How gay are the frogs?
It would be pretty funny if that makes those people snap and they end up being the ones to drag Trump and his cronies into the street and tear him apart like zombies.
Though they’d likely all just be shot to death while trying, which I guess maybe win-win?
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We live in the stupidest timeline.
Hell yeah, brother. People have elevated the presumed sanctity of their beliefs, no matter how stupid, to be the most sacred of liberties. Even over life and health.
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It sounds like they're mixing "chemtrails" and "cloud seeding". And they don't understand either...
How dare you read the article!
That is by far one of the stupidest public consultations I've read about.
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Should be easy for the airlines to comply with, since they don't leave chemtrails, they leave contrails.
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Red State voters living in abject poverty: "Republicans is gittin important stuff done!"
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Whoopee. Now the fucking fringers have become the mainstream.
It bans cloud seeding and geoengineering. Passing this off as a 'ban on chemtrails' is deliberately dishonest.
a Class B misdemeanor for the injection, release or dispersal of “a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.
So they're going after yhe companies polluting the planet right... Right?
Presumably companies would be able to argue they aren't pushing out pollutants with the intention to change the climate
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The House needs a bill to prevent idiots from entering politics.
We, uh, could just fund secular public education.
And yeah, I’m kinda pissed I have to add “secular” to that.
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Oh, I get get it. The crazy weather that were experiencing is not global warming, it's chemtrails. And caused by the government. 🙃
Please pass this bill, that'd be so hilarious, the US inadvertently closing it's airspace semi permanently because they're such dumbasses
Alabama not the US house. That headline needs a lot of context
The sad thing is that there is a huge amount that could be done for global warming with some basic legislation around contrails. Clouds that high in the atmosphere are quite bad in terms of greenhouse effect. By avoiding flying through areas that they'd be generated there's a surprisingly large environmental benefit for minimal cost. A good explainer: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08
I never thought it about as a green house thing before though I do remember reading an article many years ago that contrails do contribute when they spread out into cirrostratus clouds.
I was a meteorologist in the Air Force and did make forecasts telling pilots at what levels to fly to avoid making contrails since having a long silver line pointing to your exact location makes sneak attacks a little difficult. Perhaps commercial airlines should make use of that information. It's usually just a few thousand foot difference. Fly a little higher or lower and problem solved.
This is what the decline in education and humility gets you in America.
They should simply require the Jewish Space Laser zap any chemtrails.
State law. Kind of. It’s Alabama, so…
Republicans will do literally anything to avoid actually governing.
Come on guys you all know."Atheist are using unicorn's to spread chemtrails to kill off all the Angeles in heaven."
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