Arizona bill would make it a felony to change the climate or weather | the bill will not apply to anyone burning greenhouse gases
https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2026-01-10/arizona-bill-would-make-it-a-felony-to-change-the-climate-or-weather
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Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 22 pts · 218d
So let me get this straight, the bill acknowledges climate change is bad, GHG emissions cause climate change, but then targets everything but the root cause of the problem? Really amazing work they're doing out there in Arizona.
hoppygarden@feddit.org · 1 pts · 213d
it took a while until people agreed the earth is not flat. different century, different level of media influence. but just saying.
20cello@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 218d
Wow,that's remarkably stupid
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 213d
Outlawing geo engineering is not stupid. Castigating doing so is because they did not pick a fight with oil they would lose badly 10x over is stupid.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 218d
How does that even work? The only way I know to change the weather is with the Clear Skies shout — in Skyrim (a video game).
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 218d
People have been experimenting with cloud seeding for decades, but more likely this is another BS bill targeting contrails to feed the paranoid agenda.
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 218d
guts of a century really, since the 40s (I just read this on wikipedia right now)
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d
The spell Weather Control in D&D worked in 3.0/3.5
(Also a game)
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 218d
In GTA III, you could type in "I LOVE SCOTLAND" to change the weather to pouring rain
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 213d
Pump sulfur dioxide, aerosols, into the upper atmosphere.
Dogyote@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 218d
I'm telling you guys, Republicans are aliens from another world that prefer a warmer Earth.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 217d
Dogyote@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 216d
Exactly, it's always projection
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 213d
You say that yet you are here mocking one of the only good things they have done because it was presented to you in a way that oh they didn't pick a fight with oil companies to do something they have no power to do. Is this argument you guys are castigating them for here?
Dogyote@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 213d
How is this good?
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 213d
Paying billionaires' companies to spray aerosols to block the sun while continuing business as usual is an arrogant hubristic folly. The unintended consequences of which we cannot know.
These states are admittedly worried about chemtrails first, idk about that but geo engineering is very real.
Dogyote@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 212d
I don't disagree with you, but it also seems absurd to prevent deployment of mitigation strategies while simultaniously ingoring, maybe even encouraging, CO2 emissions. Hence my joke that they're aliens.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 5 pts · 217d
What about planting trees to offset carbon? When does an artificial forest start to count as Geo engineering?
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 218d
What about Jewish space lasers? All of their representatives are in Israel’s pocket so I’m sure they’ll be exempt
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 213d
Geoengineering should be outlawed, and just because it is presented to you in a way that they also didn't pick a fight with oil companies that they would not win and can't do it is stupid, really shows a person's own lack of intelligence if they reject this because of that. No fucking Wonder we are in this place as a country. Jesus fucking Christ.
hexdream@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 218d
Cannot change it at all? To improve it or make it worse?