Andrew Powell
A bill that would prohibit the use of weather modification activities in the Sunshine State has been temporarily put on hold.
Miami Republican Sen. Ileana Garcia filed the measure (SB 56) that would put in place larger fines for anyone who operates a weather modification operation, increasing from $500 to $100,000.
The legislation was set to be heard by the Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government on Wednesday, but was temporarily postponed by Garcia.
If the measure does find its way into law, the injection, release or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of Florida for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather or intensity of sunlight would be prohibited.
According to the bill’s latest analysis, all other existing weather modification statutes would be repealed, while the Department of Environmental Protection’s authority to conduct programs of study, research and experimentation in the field of weather modification would further be removed.
The analysis elaborates that geoengineering and weather modification encompass various techniques designed to manipulate Earth’s climate systems, either to influence precipitation patterns or to alleviate the effects of rising global temperatures. One such method, cloud seeding, seeks to modify local or regional atmospheric conditions to enhance rainfall or minimize hailstorms.
Meanwhile, geoengineering techniques like solar radiation modification target broader-scale interventions aimed at decreasing the amount of sunlight that reaches Earth’s surface.
As previously reported during the bill’s passage through the Senate Environmental and Natural Resources Committee, Garcia said there is a stack of evidence — both official and anecdotal — that shows weather modification is an ongoing practice. She further noted Florida has had licensing requirements for over a decade, but not a single application has been lodged in that time.
“Some would call it concerns. Others would call it conspiracy theories. But I thought that perhaps this bill would allow us to start somewhere where we can start to separate fact from fiction,” Garcia told the committee.
7 comments
Conrad "Con" Spyring
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 pm
It was, in other words, sent to the round file, which is where it belonged, along with any legislation based on fantasy like the idea that anyone is conspiring to change the weather over the heads of poor, unaware victimized Floridians.
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Linwood Wright
March 5, 2025 at 9:34 pm
Is there a bill to ban unicorn ownership too?
I mean, since we’re wasting our time banning nonsense that doesn’t exist we may as well.
Sunshine4Ever
March 6, 2025 at 6:43 am
There are Stratospheric Aerosol Injections (SAI) going on every single day in the state of Florida.. Tennessee banned this last year. The state of Arizona just passed this yesterday. This so called “weather modification research” is under the umbrella of Solar Radiation Modification. Biden Harris put that in a mandate in ‘22 and it is funded to the tune of 200-500 million for 5 years. They issued a detailed 44 page report on this 6/23. Then they funded another $39,000,000 in ‘24. The taxpayer monies were stuffed into NOAA budget and OSAT.
Pilots have been subcontracted by the Federal government and are daily dispersing toxic pollutants such as silver iodide and aluminum In flares/canisters which are attached to the back of the wing’s planes . They are flying at very low altitudes and their disgusting man-made plumes release white haze which then merge together and block the sun. They are doing this in the vain attempt to lower the earth’s temperature by 1.5 degrees by 2030. Part of the U.N’s “One Atmosphere” agenda.
It’s not part of the Sunshine State’s agenda and no one here asked for this.
Clearly someone is making a lot of money off of this.
It needs to stop. Floridians did not consent to being lab rats for Climate Change Activism.
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Sunshine4ever
March 6, 2025 at 11:05 am
Andrew you are not an objective journalist
I posted facts about this bill 4 hours ago but you can’t be bothered.
“Awaiting moderation” 👌🏻
FL Politics like to allow and post nonsense from people who talk about unicorns but won’t allow facts.
I also emailed you about this “moderation“. ….. Crickets.
Even Facebook dropped that disinformation tactic.
Chuck Anziulewicz
March 19, 2025 at 10:59 am
Weather modification? If Sen. Ileana Garcia and Rep. Kevin Steele want to do something about weather modification, they need to go after the fossil fuels industry. We have known about the physical effects of greenhouse gases for over a century. We also know that for every single degree celsius the atmosphere warms, it’s able to hold 7% more moisture. We ALSO know that the atmosphere has warmed 1.75 degrees celsius since the beginning of the Industrial Age. Talk about weather modification! The fact that we continue to pump carbon into the sky is doing more to modify the weather than anything.
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