Banning geoengineering over Florida makes an important political point, but it doesn’t actual protect anyone. The atmosphere is constantly moving, and geoengineering anywhere affects the whole planet.
“Florida is not a testing ground for geoengineering. We already do not permit this type of activity, but we are going the next step to ensure it does not happen in this state.”
The 1600 eruption of Mt. Huaynaputina in Peru caused a famine in Russia which killed one third of the Russian population.
It’s got to start somewhere with someone passing a law against it. Frankly, I would have made it a capital crime and then state that since the atmosphere is common to all of us, anyone doing geo-engineering anywhere on the global is subject to our state law. Maybe put a bounty out for anyone identified as doing it.
It depends on the quantity(and altitude).
One needs an impressive number of flights to match the mass of a top category volcano eruption.
The USA has been massivly spraying highly toxic lead iodid and other stuff for more than 5 years over Laos,Cambodia and Vietnam alongside the bombing(and drug smuggling) to manipulate the weather(CiA ‘s Evergreen International Airlines used to call this service Geomodification on their website)
and even without the knowledge of the secretary of defense.
(Kissinger simply bypassed him,as he was way higher up in the real hierarchy than Laird.)
The effects for the rest of the world were not relevant(but maybe they were ,as the ice age scare started during that timeframe 🙂
But nice to see that De Santis joined us crazy people.
Hopefully, with the quantities of muck concerned, any effects will be localized. It does not inspire confidence if the predicted effects are reliant on current climate models.
Interesting to note that the 1600 eruption coincided with a solar minimum. See Zharkova’s presentation available as a Tom Nelson podcast. We can expect the same in the current grand solar minimum between now and 2053. As Zharkova says, for the next thirty years, global warming will be the last thing on your mind.
No, it doesn’t take away the risk of someone doing it elsewhere (the U.K.?), but it’s a step in the right direction from the best governor in America.