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Tennessee Republicans Seek to Ban Physics

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  1. archigator_96

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    Does it have to be from an airplane or does me spraying for bugs in my yard count?
     
  2. demosthenes

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    I have no major problem with cloud seeding based on what we know. They use silver iodide, a naturally occurring compound, and has no known harmful effects on people or the environment.
     
  3. WC53

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    These chemtrails originated with the Obama Nato black helicopter psyops project
     
  4. phatGator

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    Cloud seeding with silver iodide has been used for almost a century. During the 1930s droughts people fired canons into the air to deliver “rainmaking” chemicals. But what do you think today about other compounds being released to block solar radiation?
     
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    I don’t know anything about that. Is that actually happening or just a proposed solution? It seems to me that it’s treating the symptoms instead of addressing the root causes but I’m no expert.
     
  6. phatGator

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    As far as I can tell, it’s mostly been studies and plans, although some small experiments have been conducted. There are plenty of patents applied for or issued regarding solar geoengineering.

    It’s interesting that the anti-solar geoengineering people come from both political sides. Far right people fear nefarious actions by the government, while left-wing people fear that a treatment for global warming will reduce the incentive to cut emissions.
     
  7. Gatorhead

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    What could possibly go wrong monkeying around with nature? Hmmmm.......

    Cross Florida Canal, Corp of Engineers modification of the Everglades eco system, NOLA dike system, Love Canal, S Pacific Nuclear Weapons Testing, Chernobel, Daming the Nile, Appalachian Strip Mining,
    Lead Paint, Leaded Gas, Carrier Pigeons, Buffalo, Walnut Trees, Kudzu, Fire Ants,

    Ok, yeah, good idea.
     
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  8. phatGator

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    Let’s not forget Australian Pines in South Florida. :mad:
     
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    Looks like it's not just Tennessee

     
  10. tampagtr

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    Nuclear weapons testing reminded me of one of my favorite tweets recently

     
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  11. chemgator

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    My trails cannot be defeated so easily.
     
  12. l_boy

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    Tennessee lawmakers ban geoengineering, with allusions to 'chemtrails'

    The Tennessee state House of Representatives passed a bill Monday designed to prevent geoengineering, the practice of intentionally modifying the atmosphere to counteract global warming.

    The bill, which had already passed in the state Senate, covers a variety of technological interventions. They include theoretical ideas about cooling the climate by an approach known as solar radiation modification, as well as more limited practices that affect the weather, like cloud seeding, a technique used to increase rain and snowfall.


    However, lawmakers’ discussions of the proposal toed a line between fact and fiction, with several suggesting that solar geoengineering projects are already underway and others referring to fears and misunderstandings that appeared to stem from the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory.

    “This will be my wife’s favorite bill of the year. She has worried about this, I bet, 10 years. It’s been going on a long, long time,” Republican Sen. Frank Niceley said at a hearing about the bill last month. “If you look up — one day, it’ll be clear. The next day they will look like some angels have been playing tic-tac-toe. They’re everywhere. I’ve got pictures on my phone with X's right over my house. For years they denied they were doing anything.”
     
  13. l_boy

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    I remember them being everywhere in the Melbourne/ Indialantic area 40 years ago. Then a freeze came and killed them all.
     
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  14. phatGator

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    Sometimes nature fights back! I wonder if they’re still all over south Florida.

    Even as I write this, I look out to the open area and woods behind my house. A number of years ago my son and I launched the battle against invasive Japanese honeysuckle. We cut them all down got rid of them.

    The next year exotic garlic mustard moved in. That invasive plant is insidious. You can’t just weed whack it down because it will still release seeds, up to 10,000 per plant, just from the energy in the stalk after it’s cut. The seeds stay viable in the soil for 10 years. The plants also release a chemical that kills other plants around them. You have to pull them up, bag them, and put them in the garbage.

    So I rid the whole area of garlic mustard only to have poison hemlock move in along with pokeweed. Granted pokeweed is a native plant, but it’s still incredibly aggressive. I’ve been fighting that for several years and now Japanese honeysuckle has come back.

    It’s a never-ending fight against invasive, exotic plants which people thought were a good idea to introduce.

    My small woodland area of beautiful Trillium grandiflorum, the Ohio state flower that takes multiple years before a blossom will occur, is being crowded out by exotic mock strawberry.

    I’m trying to rid exotics and replace them with native wildflowers. It’s a never-ending battle.
     
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