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Conspiracy theorists and vaccine skeptics have a new target: geoengineering (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by MicroWave to c/news

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Around the country, people with a deep distrust of government want to preemptively ban the use of aerosols to reduce heat from the sun.

At first glance, what happened in Tennessee’s legislature this spring seemed a bit odd.

Republican lawmakers introduced a bill to ban solar geoengineering — putting aerosols into the atmosphere to block some of the radiation from the sun. As climate change drives up temperatures on Earth, there is growing interest in geoengineering as a way to cool the planet. But it’s still largely theoretical, with no evidence that anyone in Tennessee is planning to try it.

The main witness to testify in support of the ban was a physician without any apparent qualifications in atmospheric science, who falsely claimed geoengineering was happening nationwide. Democrats derided the bill as ridiculous and tried to amend it with mentions of Yetis, Bigfoot and Sasquatch to prove their point.

Yet the ban sailed through the legislature. Governor Bill Lee, a Republican, signed it, making Tennessee the first state to outlaw geoengineering.

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[–] jordanlund 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looks to be an extension of the "Chemtrails!" nonsense that, IIRC, started back in the 90s?

https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/chemtrails-conspiracy-theory

[–] MicroWave 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yep and as recent as 2014:

The national campaign to ban geoengineering can be traced back to Rhode Island in 2014, when a lawmaker looked to the sky and saw a conspiracy.

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Ms. MacBeth’s beliefs are better known as the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory, which posits that airplanes are secretly emitting dangerous chemical trails, as opposed to water vapor naturally released as condensation from planes’ engines, which turns to visible trails of ice crystals in the cold air. There is no evidence supporting the chemtrails theory, which has attracted many followers through social media.

[–] jordanlund 2 points 1 month ago

Looked it up... yeah... 90s and Art Bell... man, remember him?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

Chemtrails people are a bunch of:

https://youtu.be/aIYZvr3ueGw