• gizmonicus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • grue@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    46·
    3 days ago

    (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.)

  • don@lemmy.caEnglish
    151·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Sorry, why do the bags have to be wet? Does the wetness affect the intelligence of a bag?

      • grue@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        He left out the “paper” part: “wet paper bag.” MTG is as intelligent as a wet paper bag is at holding stuff without tearing.

      • don@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        It’s just a fun descriptor, and no, it has no impact on the intelligence of any of the bags involved.

  • School_Lunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    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?

    • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      It could, but the supreme Court and other Republicans would never allow it.

    • Tower@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense.

      I think that “for the express purpose” is in there precisely to prevent those lawsuits.

  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Both actually. A Cessna looks cute and small but its the size of a bus and uses just as much gas per mile as a bus or a big truck and it only carries two to four people. It makes huge noise, causes accidents and uses leaded fuel! Leaded fuel! WTF!

  • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    In addition to particulate nucleation sites, which help precipitation, combustion also creates new H2O vapor by consuming oxygen and freeing hydrogen from its carbon bond in fuel. While most may view this image as a simple CO2 equation, that’s not weather modification; it’s climate modification.

    In an off-grid mountain community in the southern Sierra, a lifelong resident said in the pub that it used to rain every afternoon in the summer when he was young. Compared to now where it rains about every 10 days. By my estimate that was about the time smog was at its worst in the state, a time of 10mpg and muscle cars. I wonder if his memory was already an altered condition from natural.

  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Some what related, I was having a chat with some friends about possible retrospectives in how history will see us. I was curious as to anything positive coming out of this whole mess. Not that maga would do it on purpose or anything, but what if someone uses MTG’s bill to jail some of the most heinous polluters in the country. Possible Trumps fuck ups with trade and tariffs lead to overall less being made and shipped. I doubt it tho.

    • grue@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure MTG’s bill is specifically written to exclude heinous polluters. It is only persecuting people trying to fix the problem, specifically.