Originally Posted by
Excargodog
But let's continue to insult the rural areas because that "deplorables" comment worked so well for Hillary.
The bill has nothing to do with climate change. As noted before, and quoted, and cited and linked, it has to do with reducing the maximum period of vacancy for a seat on the air pollution board, from 180 days, to 150 days. The bill rider was written in as an amendment.
Injecting something into the atmosphere that effects weather changes, reduces sunlight, or changes the temperature can range from hair spray to a bonfire, to say nothing of cloud seeding, "chemtrails," ad nauseum. Anything which puts so-called "greenhouse gas" iinto the atmosphere, or adds condensation nuclei, or outputs large volumes of smoke, smog, or other polution, has such an impact, and such a law could be used against almost anyone who sprays any chemical in the air, or burns their trash. Let's not be idiots, however. The language of that bill rider, while not explicit, is clear.
Cloud seeding is beneficial. There's no political gravity to making cloud seeding illegal. It's used by governments and municipalities for purposes that range from enhancing rainfall, to eliminating or reducing hail; both are possible with weather modification programs, and these aren't seen, generally speaking, as evil threats to the right wing fringe. They're beneficial, science-based, and not particularly controversial in western locales. (As noted previously, I have experience with atmospheric research [specifically airborne thunderstorm studies], as well as weather modification -"cloud seeding"- and have received death threats, but in predominantly Islamic locations, from Islamic fundamentalists who felt our work was attempting to interfere witih the domain of God). Let's not pretend that this bill is intended to stamp out "cloud seeding."
We're not that stupid. Or naive.
As for the solar radiation management article that you linked ("cirrus seeding"); it's a pseudo-academic study with little more than speculation and hot air to back it up, as is the entire premise. It's not actually "a thing." To date, the entire concept of solar geoengineering in practice amounts to little more than white rooftops. The practical application is non-existant, with nothing more than ambitious proposals, studies of studies of speculative theorization, and a generous dose of hot air. Do we really believe that a house bill and a senate bill have been generated to make illegal solar geoengineering? Or "cloud seeding?"
Let's be realistic.