What about planting trees to offset carbon? When does an artificial forest start to count as Geo engineering?
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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So let me get this straight, the bill acknowledges climate change is bad, GHG emissions cause climate change, but then targets everything but the root cause of the problem? Really amazing work they're doing out there in Arizona.
I'm telling you guys, Republicans are aliens from another world that prefer a warmer Earth.
Exactly, it's always projection
Wow,that's remarkably stupid
How does that even work? The only way I know to change the weather is with the Clear Skies shout — in Skyrim (a video game).
People have been experimenting with cloud seeding for decades, but more likely this is another BS bill targeting contrails to feed the paranoid agenda.
guts of a century really, since the 40s (I just read this on wikipedia right now)
In GTA III, you could type in "I LOVE SCOTLAND" to change the weather to pouring rain
The spell Weather Control in D&D worked in 3.0/3.5
(Also a game)
What about Jewish space lasers? All of their representatives are in Israel’s pocket so I’m sure they’ll be exempt
Soooo....
We're letting K-jizz tell us what's going on?
Its a local NPR station that airs jazz and some news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJZZ_(FM)
I actually knew that, I was just going for the cheap joke. Low hanging fruit, and all that.
Cannot change it at all? To improve it or make it worse?