A conspiracy theory about geoengineering has taken off in the US
John Nissen
Mis-information in the driver's seat
Three states have succeeded in banning CI research and deployment: Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida. Florida’s bill, for example, prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere within the state “for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight.” The state touts the bill as successful in stopping CI activity, even though CI activity wasn’t happening in the first place. Florida could achieve the same track record if it passed a bill banning rocks from floating.
Why ban something that’s not happening? At the most basic level, these bills are driven by misinformation. Climate interventions, specifically stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), have been wrongly conflated with chemtrail conspiracy theories – the false claim that airplane emissions known as contrails (not chemtrails) are comprised of toxic chemicals that hurt human health…and serve as a form of government-orchestrated weather and mind control… (which sounds like a great plot for a science fiction movie, but is far from reality of what’s happening here on Earth). This argument has resonated with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, adherents of which are also strong supporters of many of the state ban bills. (I don’t need to point out the irony here, but I will, that geoengineering research is exploring ways that we can reduce the health impacts of heat, wildfires, and other climate driven threats.) This vocal faction also influenced the Clear Skies Act, federal legislation introduced by Rep. Majorie Taylor Green last year to criminalize CI and weather modification research.
Even though the Clear Skies Act didn’t become law, it is a worrying example of how public policy from the state level all the way up to the federal level is being influenced and informed by conspiracy theories instead of fact. This can become a self-perpetuating cycle, in which policy predicated on misinformation ends up giving increased visibility and credibility to that misinformation, which in turn helps it spread further.
Tom Goreau
It’s merely a hopeful wish that the electorate makes decisions based on understanding of the facts, but in the real world lies circulate 9 times faster on the internet than true facts, and the vast majority of the electorate can’t tell the difference!
Those making the lies up certainly do, it’s their bu$ine$$ model!
H. L. Mencken said that American Democracy “is based on the theory that the average man knows what he wants and deserves to get it, good and hard”. Why trouble yourself with reality when AI lies are so much more attractive?
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oswald....@hispeed.ch
Hi John,
this development (among others) shows clearly that SAI will not be done for at least the next 20 years. SAI requires the cooperation of the 5 members of the UN security council, which is unthinkable at this stage.
We need a more regional approach, which can be governed by a local state.
Regards
Oswald Petersen
Author of „GeoRestoration – Cool the Climate with Natural Technology“
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