Alabama House Debates Bill To Ban Cloud Seeding
After much discussion during committee hearings, House Bill 25 has been sent to the full Alabama house floor for debate. As was pointed out by some in the hearings, the genesis of the legislation are rumors and conspiracy theories.
If passed and signed into law, the bill would, "...prohibit the dispersion of compounds or substances into the atmosphere for the purpose of affecting the weather. In other words, it would provide criminal penalties for seeding clouds."
Sponsored by East Alabama Rep. Mack Butler (R-28), the proposed penalties would be a Class B Misdemeanor. It would be administered by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) and would require a hotline to be setup for the public to report violations.
Numerous citizens appearing before the Alabama House State Government Committee claimed the tragic mass casualty flooding in Texas last summer resulted from cloud seeding and chemtrails. One of those was Ted Holley who made that claim. It is based on a cloud seeding operation that happened in a different part of Texas a couple days prior to the killer floods.
Holley didn't stop with cloud seeding in his comments. He also blamed contrails (condensation from jet engines). “A contrail, if you go outside on a cold Alabama day and you breathe, you see it, that’s a contrail” Holley said. “If you see an airplane in the sky and it lingers just a few seconds, that’s a contrail. When they crisscross the sky like spaghetti and hashtags and all that, that is chemtrailing.”
Scientists call that theory hogwash. They point out that due to altitude and atmospheric conditions, a contrail can remain for hours.
Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reinforced the cloud seeding theory when she announced introduction of a bill in congress to ban cloud seeding and other weather modification.
Tuscaloosa Republican State Reps. Ron Bolton and Bill Lamb are co-sponsors of Butler's bill. Lamb told Tuscaloosa Thread the issue is mostly conspiracy theory, but he co-sponsored it because some of his constituents wanted it and also to bring some transparency to the issue.
Florida, Tennessee and Montana already have anti-weather modification laws, Tennessee's makes violations a felony. Louisiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania and North Carolina have joined Alabama in considering similar legislation.
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