Drew Dixon
A House bill that is rooted in the belief that aircraft in the skies over the state are seeding dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere is going to the floor of the chamber for full consideration.
The House Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee approved the “Weather Modification Activities” bill (HB 477). The measure, if approved by the full Legislature, “prohibits certain acts intended to affect temperature, weather, or intensity of sunlight within the atmosphere of this state.”
The proposed legislation stems at least in part from the chemtrails conspiracy theory. It’s a decades-old, debunked belief that contrails, the white lines of condensed water vapor that jets leave behind in the sky, are actually toxic chemicals that the government and other entities are using to do everything from altering the weather to sterilizing and mind-controlling the populace.
Rep. Kevin Steele, a Tallahassee Republican, sponsored the bill and told the subcommittee members he understands there is skepticism about the claims regarding chemtrails. The measure would ban such activity from taking place.
“It’s a fact that they can do this, whoever ‘they’ is, and they shouldn’t be allowed to do that in the state of Florida,” Steele said. “I started the process as a naysayer and … now I’m in the middle.”
Bradford Thomas, a recently retired Judge for the Florida First District Court of Appeals and former prosecutor, is far from being in the middle. He already testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment and General Government in March when that panel was considering a similar measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Ileana Garcia (SB 56) that calls for similar measures for aerial spraying activity.
Thomas ramped up his concerns before the House subcommittee. He reiterated that he has noticed what he calls chemtrails above the skies of Crescent Beach while strolling along the shore just south of St. Augustine. Thomas said the activity will harm Florida on a large scale.
“If this is not curtailed, this is going to destroy coastal tourism in the state of Florida,” Thomas said.
Other residents supporting the bill spoke before the subcommittee Tuesday and said they believed activity in the skies is being done to include “solar radiation modification,” “aluminum spraying in the atmosphere,” “marine cloud brightening” and “toxic polluting.”
Augustus Doricko, founder of Rainmaker, a cloud-seeding geoengineering startup company, testified before the subcommittee that there is indeed cloud seeding going on. But it’s already heavily regulated and the proposed measures before the Legislature isn’t really necessary.
Cloud seeding “can be used to mitigate the risk of wildfire,” Doricko said.
The measure still has another reading set before the House State Affairs Committee.
6 comments
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April 1, 2025 at 5:21 pm
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Michael K
April 1, 2025 at 6:08 pm
Crazy conspiracy theories are destroying this country. Ridiculous.
PeterH
April 1, 2025 at 8:35 pm
As Florida residents are very aware ….. tin foil hats are very popular in Tallahassee.
Nancy P. McGowan
April 2, 2025 at 7:24 am
Judge Brad Thomas has absolutely never used he word Chemtrails in any hearing or testimony regarding NOAA’s ongoing toxic “research” in the atmosphere in FL.” either before the Senate or the House in Tallahassee.
I’d be glad to tutor you in journalistic truth, something you lack and also Stratospheric Aerosol Injectables which is what NOAA is doing and mandated in Congress years ago.
Experimentation under Solar Radiation Modification which dims or blocks the sun in the attempt to cool the earth’s temperature using chemicals which mimic a volcanic eruption, that is Stratospheric Aerosol Injection. This is also being done with the UN’s effort called “One Atmosphere.” Vitamin D is essential to all human life, plant life waters etc.
Google what Bill Gates is funding at Harvard Research with David Keith. He can do what he wants with his money but the US taxpayers are (without consent) funding the Feds to disperse a mixture of poisonous metals over our head in the troposphere. You can look up the list of chemicals.
I read three sources documents into the record yesterday. One from the Dept. Of Commerce/NOAA,, one The White House issued 6/23 and another regarding chemical testing over civilized populations from the Department of Defense all US government issued documents..
I am a former State Commissioner Appointed by General Bill McCollum and also former Attorney General Pam Bondi.
A woman from Harvard Research health also spoke who wrote the legislation for all 50 states to ban this.
Augustus Doriko who you wrote about has no standing in FL, lives in California, has no clients in Florida, and gets paid to disperse silver iodide in cloud seeding which is toxic to human health and actually causes droughts. No one is cloud seeding in FL.
Do Floridians a favor and study the issue, what you wrote is a not factual.
Danny
April 2, 2025 at 11:42 am
If it’s not really happening, then it shouldn’t upset anyone to make it illegal.
Nancy
April 2, 2025 at 4:10 pm
Correct but if it is happening the legislation in FL needs to deter it through major fines and felonies and actual enforcement. Kentucky is going for 500K per incident and a felony.