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.

“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.”

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    Maybe they’ll unintentionally outlaw pollution like when the Republicans accidentally legalized cannabis in 2018

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      Sadly, all it will take is some CEO to publicly state “I didn’t intend to pollute the environment. I dumped dangerous chemicals into nature because I wanted more money. Yes, I knew my actions would modify the weather, as this legislation states. But that was not my express purpose. My purpose was to be able to afford my 17th yacht so my peers would accept me.”

      Perfectly legal.

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    Would this… proposed legislation… mean that SpaceX will now be prohibited from flooding LEO with Starlink comsats?

    Loading the upper atmosphere with ozone-destroying aluminum and other heavy metals as those things fall out of orbit, not to mention rapidly increasing light and RF pollution, definitely qualify as an uncontrolled geoengineering experiment, albeit one whose effects were known before launch. I could go on about the deleterious effects of these orbiting swarms, but - the ball’s in your court, Congresswoman Greene.

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    Are they literally just laying the groundwork to frame Democrats for weather modifications so they can blame all of climate change on us and create a modern day witch hunt? Seriously? How the fuck is anyone stupid enough to believe this shit?

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      How the fuck is anyone stupid enough to believe this shit?

      The American “education” system… that’s how. Conservatives paid good money over the decades to build this level of general stupidity.

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    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.

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      This is the same moron that has long believed that the Jews control space lasers that manipulate the weather.

      I am surprised it took her this long to make a move.

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      I mean who else wants to hurt God loving Texans other than the radical left? No one that’s who. The radical left is lying to you about climate change so they can hide their secret Jewish space lasers and punish anyone on the right for speaking out. Like, if you’re on the right you’re not even allowed to speak anymore, at all, about anything. It’s always the left agenda this, or left agenda that, bo one listens to the right anymore. The radical left terrorists have bullied the right with fake climate change so now when there’s a national disaster the left can come out with their conspiracy theories about climate change when we really know what they’re doing. The left terrorists hate America and want to destroy it by making more natural disasters, and making them more serious then lie to your face and call it climate change when it’s really them who are causing natural disasters to change in our climate to silence the right.

      ~Hopefully obvious that is parody~

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      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)

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    There is a nugget of ‘truth’ here:

    https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2023/390_1107.html

    I can’t find my good source on tis, but there are very real proposals to seed the arctic or antarctic with aerosols to stem a runaway greenhouse gas effect.

    It’s horrific. It would basically rain down sulfiric acid onto the terrain; even worse than it sounds. But it would only cost billions, not trillions of other geoengineering schemes I’ve scene.

    …And the worst part is it’s arctic/climate researchers proposing this. They intimately know exactly how awful it would be, which shows how desperate they are to even publish such a thing.

    But I can totally understand how a layman (maybe vaguley familiar with chemtrail conspiracies) would come across this and be appalled, and how conservative influencers pounce on it cause they can’t help themselves.

    Thanks to people like MTG, geoengineering efforts will never even be considered. :(


    TL;DR Scientists really are proposing truly horrific geoengineering schemes “injecting chemicals into the atmosphere” out of airplanes. But it’s because of how desperate they are to head off something apocalyptic, and it’s not even close to being implemented. They’re just theories and plans.

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      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.

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    The only “weather modification machines” are fossil fuel powered energy plants. We should join together with MTG to outlaw them.