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'Chemtrails,' cloud seeding would be banned under bill passed by Florida Senate
(www.tallahassee.com)
Morons.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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Florida doesn't particularly need cloud seeding(they get plenty of rain and don't need to increase snowpack on the mountains they don't have), so it's kind of a useless exercise. The places that do do it mostly seem to be wasting their time though. The climate change attempts to increase albedo and thus lower temperature are just research exercises at this point.
Cloud seeding is only a couple steps above dowsing in its efficacy. It rarely works to do anything. There is a basic principle that is true regarding cloud condensation nuclei, but the methods are so haphazard that it's still mostly just "doing something" to make people feel better. It's basically our equivalent of the Mayan elite rituals encouraging rains for the corn harvest.
Even if they seed the fucking cloud itl just fly over the wrong damn loactaion anyway xd
Nah. Probably will smack into a military helicopter before making it that far
I agree, though increasing snowpack seems to be the most plausible idea, though still a greatly wasted effort.
As someone who works for a defense contractor, I like to tell people chemtrails are real just to sow chaos. To add credibility, I refer people to an early test version:
Lots of ignorant comments in here. I'm not even an expert, but numerous scientists agree that the long-term effects of cloud seeding, aka "chemtrails" are not entirely known. However, there are known potential downsides, such as increased flooding and environmental pollution (from the silver iodide used to form the clouds). There are also other downsides to it, but I'm not going to dive into all of that because I'm lazy.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4851009
In short, banning cloud seeding isn't that bad of an idea. Whether the cons outweigh the pros (increased precipitation is good for farmers/crops), that's a debate worth having among our legislators and the scientific community.
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