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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday she plans to present a measure to restrict "weather modification."
“I americium introducing a measure that prohibits the injection, release, oregon dispersion of chemicals oregon substances into the ambiance for the explicit intent of altering weather, temperature, climate, oregon sunlight intensity. It volition beryllium a felony offense,” she wrote successful a Saturday post connected X.
“I person been researching upwind modification and moving with the legislative counsel for months penning this bill,” Greene added.
The Georgia lawmaker said the authorities would lucifer Florida’s Senate Bill 56, which was signed into instrumentality by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) successful precocious June.
The substance makes it amerciable for individuals to signifier geoengineering and upwind modification by imposing a $100,000 good and a five-year situation sentence.
The punishment would use to unreality seeding, an 80-year-old exertion that adds tiny particles—usually metallic iodide crystals—to clouds to trigger rainfall oregon snow, arsenic defined by the Government Accountability Office.
Some states person practiced the measure, but it's seldom been undertaken by national jurisdictions.
“We indispensable extremity the unsafe and deadly signifier of upwind modification and geoengineering,” Greene said of the forthcoming bill.
However, lawmakers successful the Sunshine State said unreality seeding is simply a harmless signifier that has been undermined by conspiracy theories astir upwind alteration, arsenic contrails, condensation trails near successful the aerial by planes, are sometimes confused arsenic chemtrails.
"[They are] benignant of 2 antithetic things, and I deliberation radical person got them mixed up, due to the fact that they deliberation that they've heard that this chemtrail conspiracy mentation is astir geoengineering and upwind modification," Mick West, a subject writer and chap for the Committee of Skeptical Inquiry, told 12News.
"Then, they observe that there's this happening called unreality seeding, which really is upwind modification. And past they benignant of enactment 2 and 2 unneurotic and marque 17."
Greene made headlines past twelvemonth erstwhile she suggested Democrats were capable to "control the weather" successful the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, prompting then-President Biden to condemn what helium called “irresponsible” and “beyond ridiculous” falsehoods.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) poked amusive astatine Greene’s measure successful a station online.
“I’m introducing a measure that prohibits the injection, merchandise oregon dispersion of stupidity into Congress,” helium wrote successful a Saturday post, quoting Greene’s archetypal announcement.
But 1 of her Republican colleagues has already signaled he’ll backmost her efforts.
“Let’s rotation Chairlady!” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) wrote online.
Greene’s bureau did not instantly respond to further requests for remark connected the measure and imaginable national penalties outlined successful the text.
