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I was wondering if the bill MTG is gonna try to bring to a vote about making weather modifications illegal could be used against major polluters?
I am so completely fucking done with these brain dead ass conspiracy theories about cloud seeding. Science illiteracy is a real fucking problem.
You. Cannot. Create. Torrential. Rain. With. Cloud. Seeding. Alone.
Cloud seeding precipitates rain from existing weather systems. If those clouds do not contain the water required to create a torrential downpour then it is impossible to create a torrential downpour. And if those clouds have enough water in them to create a torrential downpour, it does not require cloud seeding to precipitate it.
It is soul crushing to have to explain to people that human beings do not yet have the capacity to steer and control large weather systems. And it’s very likely that we never will, given the scale and the amount of energy that it would require.
We cannot control hurricanes. Why? Because hurricanes possess and release more energy than the entire combined energy production capacity of human civilization. They are mind bogglingly powerful, and to think that we can steer them to target political enemies IS BATSHIT INSANE.
Climate change is real. Republican conspiracies cause me physical pain. And I need a stiff drink.
Consider a bag. Now fill that bag with nothing but wet bags. That bag of wet bags is a rocket surgeon compared to any given republican.
I love how when I started reading this comment, I thought it was going to be some deep dive into the structural integrity of the main bag being compromised by the wet bags, and it would lead to some analogy of how compromised our systems are.
Nope. Just a confusing shot at republicans that you didn’t see coming even as you read it. Like POW! HOW YA LIKE ME NOW??? and you’re just reading it like…
Oh ho ho ho! hearty chuckle
And then you get sad because you remember the whole world is still one massive dumpster fire.
(It’s not just the greenhouse gas emissions from all the combustion engines, BTW. It’s also the greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing the asphalt, the destruction of vegetation to make room for pavement, etc. Electric cars can help treat the symptoms, but cannot cure the disease.)
Electric cars don’t solve the pollution problem, they relocate it, and they still take up the same amount of space.
They do improve it, but it’s a marginal gain, as opposed to the big transformational win for the environment that comes from switching to a different transportation mode.
