Airports across the state of Florida are grappling with how to comply with a new law aimed at stopping weather modification activities, with airports being put on notice that they must report any suspicious activity.
This might all sound like the stuff of conspiracy theories, but Florida lawmakers are so concerned that nefarious individuals and organizations could try to ‘geo-engineer’ the weather that on July 1, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new bill into law to ban exactly this.
While there’s no evidence of any widespread weather-changing activity actually taking place in Florida or any other US state, for that matter, the law seems designed to appease some groups who have become obsessed with the idea that dangerous chemicals are being released into the atmosphere to change the weather or even control the population.
That’s not to say that weather modification activity is a completely unrealistic idea. Some countries have carried out ‘cloud seeding’ in which chemicals like silver iodide are injected into the atmosphere to encourage rain in very dry environments.
There are, however, no links with commercial airliners and weather modification or the contrails that upset conspiracy theorists so much (which are, in fact, caused by water vapor and nothing else).
Nonetheless, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has written to airports across Florida, demanding that they provide monthly reports to the state, listing any aircraft that are fitted with weather-altering equipment that use their airport.
Failure to comply with the new reporting requirements, which come into force in October 2025, could result in fines of up to $100,000, as well as the withdrawal of hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds earmarked for major airport upgrade works.
“Because airports are most likely to catch those who seek to weaponize science in order to push their agenda, your compliance with these reporting obligations is essential to keeping our state safe from these harmful chemicals and experiments,” AG Uthmeier wrote in a new letter to airport operators.
The letter continued: “In Florida, we don’t jeopardize the public health so that we can bend the knee to the climate cult.”
As you might suspect, no airports currently track whether planes using their airfields are fitted with weather-altering equipment, and it remains unclear how airports are expected to monitor this.
While airports might be able to keep track of seeding clouding equipment, Uthmeier seems to be concerned that the activity is secretly happening.
“From farmlands to our waterways, to the very air we breathe— Floridians’ health is under attack from toxic particulates being sprayed into our atmosphere, polluting our water, contaminating agriculture, and destroying human health,” Uthmeier recently warned.
“Injecting our atmosphere with novel chemical compounds to block the sun is a dangerous path, especially in Florida, where sunshine is our most valuable resource,” Uthmeier continued.
“Furthermore, as our hearts break for the victims of the flash floods in Texas, I can’t help but notice the possibility that weather modification could have played a role in this tragedy.”
There is, however, simply no evidence to suggest that cloud seeding was involved in the recent Texas floods.
Several airports across Florida say they are still awaiting guidance from the state’s Department of Transportation on how they are meant to comply with the new reporting requirements.
Florida is the second state, along with Tennessee, to ban weather modification activities. Similar bills have been introduced in several other states, including Texas, and North Carolina.
Apparently some Florida governor forgot to take his Thorazine again. As an alternate idea, why not use that science stuff and try to combat climate change ?