Tennessee: Bill Banning Geoengineering In The State Passes, Critics Say It’s A Conspiracy Theory

OAN’s Brooke Mallory
4:26 PM – Friday, March 22, 2024

The Tennessee General Assembly plans to move forward with: approve the law That would make it illegal to use atmospheric dispersion within state borders to mitigate climate change.

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“Intentional injection or release of any chemical, compound, substance, or device” within Tennessee for the “express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of sunlight.” or diffusion,” or a practice known as geoengineering, would be prohibited under the bill proposed by Rep. Monty Fritz (R-Kingston) and Sen. Steve Sutherland (R-Morristown).

Fritz argued that attempts to “manage climate change” and “impact the sun” using chemical compounds have been “widely documented,” and that Tennessee’s air and water could be inadvertently affected by these efforts. He claimed that he was aiming to protect from

“I just felt like that was the better place to drive a stake in the ground, not Tennessee. That’s not my intent,” Fritz told a House subcommittee.

Fritz went on to explain that he drafted the bill in consultation with TDEC members to ensure it is consistent with “legitimate industries within this state.”

But Nashville Rep. Justin Jones (D-Tenn.) vetoed Fritz’s bill, arguing that much of the information supporting it was “based on conspiracy theories.”

A White House study conducted in June 2023 outlined possible measures to modify solar radiation levels, which it said were a cause for concern.

The Biden administration says the study describes plans and research examining ways to reduce solar radiation “to combat climate change,” but it reportedly does not address any changes to current policies or geoengineering practices. It stressed that no changes were included or suggested. The report was published in accordance with instructions from Congress.

March 18th^th, the Senate passed the bill on a party-line vote without debate on the Senate floor. Additionally, the Capitol Police website states that the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee will consider the measure on Wednesday, March 27th.^th.

Conservative radio host Alex Jones in 2012 His show “Prison Planet” featured a guy named Ben Livingston. This is related to Jones’ controversial website InfoWars. Mr. Livingston spoke further on this topic.

In the 1960s during the Vietnam War, Livingston, who claimed to be an expert on weather regulation and a former naval physicist, is said to have briefed President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather regulation. Mr. Livingston also claimed that he was involved in a cloud dispersal program to stop the advance of Vietnamese and South Korean troops. Livingstone said the government made storm management a national priority more than 40 years ago, when the technology was fully operational to control the weather.

Meanwhile, detractors like Alan Robock, a climate science professor at Rutgers University, argue that chemtrails don’t exist and that the noticeable white streaks that appear in the sky for long periods of time are just contrails for many people across the United States. .

“Contrails are short-lived cloud effects lasting less than a few days,” Fahey said. america today. “They become very inefficient methods.” [at combating climate change]”

“The technology doesn’t exist,” Robock continued. “There is no mechanism that would pump sulfur gas into the stratosphere. People have created designs for such planes, but they have never been built.”

Nevertheless, social media users on X (Twitter) posted a video that they claim is their “evidence” of chemtrails on the platform.