Tennessee passes 'chemtrail' bill banning airborne chemicals
Critics say it was inspired by unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that planes are spraying poison.
Wow, that's great!! So I guess all the chemicals coming out of the coal, oil and gas fired power plants will be stopped then.
CO2, NOx, particulates all are chemicals and are all intentionally released during combustion.
The bill forbids "intentional injection, release, or dispersion" of chemicals into the air.
Instead it broadly prohibits "affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight".
This bill is obviously based in ignorance, but from an envirinmental/pollution standpoint this seems like a good thing. It's not their intention, but it sounds like it would protect the atmosphere from potential real polluters.
Edit: based in ignorance in the sense that some people supported the bill to ban "chem trails" (an ignorant position). Not in the sense that weather manipulation isn't real.
Suddenly every wood burning residential fireplace is illegal.
Wood smoke can obscure intensity of sunlight temporarily, increases temperature as a consequence of combustion, and small particulate matter like smoke particles are what makes rain possible, which would be weather effects
Um, no it's not. There are legit weather manipulating programs. Not the conspiracy chem trails bs, but legit "weather manipulation isn't illegal, so private companies have started getting into it for creating snow on mountains or clearing the sky before a concert" things. It made the news awhile back when a, I believe, California company, started doing it.
Beijing did it before the Olympics. It wasn't a secret by any means.
As it stands now, there is very little regulation in that area if the things you are spraying aren't already considered toxic substances. But should just anyone be able to manipulate the weather? Won't that cause more widespread issues? Maybe, maybe not. But should we leave that decision in the hands of corporations?
ETA: If you want to know more, start by looking up "cloud seeding". You'll see we've been openly testing it for decades. Source: Google
Just because people/corporations can use those legitimate weather manipulation tools, should they be allowed to?
I don't think they should. That's why I'm saying this bill seems like an unintentionally good thing.
I'm confused by your comment. I think we agree there should be regulation on the manipulation you described?
The article states that this bill bans cloud seeding
In a joking response, John Ray Clemmons, a Democrat from Nashville, introduced an amendment that would protect fictional beasts. "This amendment would make sure that we are protecting yetis, or Sasquatch or Bigfoot, from whatever this conspiracy is that we're passing in this legislation," he said during debate.
I love how they think that both chemtrails are real and that the evil secret cabal will care about their little law.
These people don't have any internal consistency in their mad conspiracy theories.
Instead it broadly prohibits "affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight".
Let's go after companies emitting CO2, CO, SO2, etc. TN is going to have to go green real quick.
I'm guessing this is targeted at the geoengineering idea of emitting sulfur dioxide alternatives to bring down local temperatures but it is written in a way that prohibits CO2 emission. Good job, Republicans. You just passed the greenest bill in the country.
So they don't crop dust in Tennessee then?
'Silent but deadly' is a misdemeanor.
Hmm. Can we uno reverse this to shut down companies who are egregious polluters? Please say we can.
Right? My first thought was "how the fuck did Eastman let this one slip through?"
Frivolous lawsuits over steam in the air are incoming...
But also: RIP crop dusters in TN.
RIP to the single most effective form of mosquito population control.
This is what I thought of immediately. Crop dusters, how about flame retardant? Can you not put fires out from the air in Tennessee?
Has anyone tried passing a bill to make Tennessee have lunar gravity on weekends and holidays? I might think about vacationing there.
How exactly do they plan to enforce it?
Wait until they find out the air you expel when breathing is made of chemicals and you're injecting them in the athmosphere.
Imagine being the poor bastard DA asked to bring this case. FFS may as well make leprechauns illegal. Tennessee, man. Come on.
O! So we don't have to do anything: said every airline ever.
Something is fishy, if you look up the bills that supposedly did this, they don't say anything about this topic.
Edit: looks like I missed the amendment in the mobile version of the site. What's funny is by the wording of the amendment, it's perfectly legal to use airplanes to disperse mind control chemicals, lol. They are only banning efforts to combat climate change.
AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to prohibit the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.
So they forgot to ban the chemtrails that are making the frogs gay. Rainbows aren't real. They are just a side affect of the chemtrails
So much for crop dusting in Tennessee!!
Hope they never need to put out fires using planes dropping dihydrogen monoxide
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