In recent times, there has been an increasing focus on “weather modification” concerns among some number of people in the United States. For example, this includes chemtrail conspiracy theories, whereby some people believe that the contrails we see in the sky are actually special chemicals intentionally being released into the atmosphere to modify the weather, as part of some deep state agenda.
Anyway, my home state of Florida has just passed new legislation based on this, which includes giving airports a new task…
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Florida bans weather modification, threatens airports
On July 1, 2025, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new bill into law, banning weather changing activities. Under Senate Bill 56, it is now illegal to intentionally release chemicals, compounds, or substances, into the atmosphere, for the purpose of altering climate, temperature, or weather. The law also prohibits aircraft equipped for such activities from landing, taking off, refueling, or stopping, at any public-use airport in Florida.
Following this law being introduced, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued an enforcement directive to all public-use airports in the state, threatening felony penalties and fines of up to $100K for violations. The way that Uthmeier frames this is quite something:
This landmark legislation marks another Florida victory for health, freedom, and environmental protection. From farmlands to our waterways, to the very air we breathe— Floridians’ health is under attack from toxic particulates being sprayed into our atmosphere, polluting our water, contaminating agriculture, and destroying human health. Injecting our atmosphere with novel chemical compounds to block the sun is a dangerous path, especially in Florida, where sunshine is our most valuable resource. Furthermore, as our hearts break for the victims of the flash floods in Texas, I can’t help but notice the possibility that weather modification could have played a role in this tragedy. Developing reports show that a weather modification company conducted “cloud seeding” operations just days before the deadly flood. Florida’s new law seeks to prevent something like that from ever happening.
With Uthmeier’s warning, as of October 1, 2025, airport operators must submit monthly reports to the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), detailing any aircraft present that are capable of geoengineering or weather modification. If airports don’t comply, they could lose state funding. Specifically, airports must report the following:
(1) the physical presence of any aircraft on public property, including any public-use airport, equipped with any part, component, device, or the like which may be used to support the intentional emission, injection, release, or dispersion of air contaminants into the atmosphere within the borders of Florida when such emissions occur for the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, climate, or the intensity of sunlight; and (2) the landing, takeoff, stopover, or refueling of an aircraft equipped with the components outlined in requirement (1) on the physical location of a public-use airport.
Okay then…
I’ll let everyone make of this what they’d like. Personally, I’m delighted to see that the government here in Florida is concerned about “environmental protection,” so I’d consider that to be positive… right? It seems a little offensive to me to suggest that the environmental event that may have caused that tragic Texas catastrophe was weather modification, but what do I know?
In all honesty, I’d be fascinated to see just how many reports end up being filed by airports over the coming months and years. Let’s just leave it at that…
Bottom line
Florida has banned weather changing activities, threatening those who violate the law with felonies and huge fines. As part of this, Florida airports are required to submit monthly reports with what they observe…
This isn't your home state, locust.
Florida Man Does Something Stupid
Nothing new about today's headline.
Florida magas leaning hard into "be the stupidest in the nation".
What's hilarious is they still believe these weird crackpot ideas, that even a middle schooler should be educated enough to see through, when they control the very agencies and equipment they think are performing magic.
The best thing I can say about them is they're unserious. But more honestly, they're really abysmally stupid, willfully evil folks.
Keep crying your liberal tears Ben, its going to be a long 4 years for you.
I'm pretty sure Florida will remain dumb as dirt for more than four years. I'm not sure what makes the people in the sunshine state so dim.
What's it like to be so ignorant? Is life more enjoyable without a brain?
Then again the scarecrow seemed happy dancing down the Yellow Brick Road, but he wasn't a twat.
What a putz
I wonder if crop dusting airplanes are exempt?
There are so many many occasions that I am so mortified by the lunacy of my States' "leaders". We have so many issues here in Florida, real issues like home owner insurance crisis that Tallahassee will not deal with. It's far easier to build a concentration camp in the Everglades and pass idiotic laws like this than do the actual governing that would benefit Floridians like myself.
Just when you thought these folks couldn't get any dummererer
Ron de Santis could have been President….
Technically carbon emissions from cars, airplanes, power plants... anything... change the weather. So maybe the airports should start reporting the engines. It is insane and inane. As @Dusty said, these are not serious people. And, yet, a plurality of Americans have put them in power.
This is idiotic, pure and simple and demonstrates how far off the rails Florida has gone politically. MAGA does not want to believe in climate change so they invent an utterly stupid conspiracy theory to explain the very real weather impacts of a warming planet. That the AG of that state actually wastes his time issuing a such a nonsensical statement about it speaks volumes. As a former resident, I am very, very glad that...
This is idiotic, pure and simple and demonstrates how far off the rails Florida has gone politically. MAGA does not want to believe in climate change so they invent an utterly stupid conspiracy theory to explain the very real weather impacts of a warming planet. That the AG of that state actually wastes his time issuing a such a nonsensical statement about it speaks volumes. As a former resident, I am very, very glad that I have put Florida in my rear view mirror, and have escaped to a more sane distant locale.
The USA has become a total sh… show. The world laughs at us for electing these people. The education level of americans is lower than a middle-age idiot.
The thing with this is the tin-hat wearing nutters will take it as a sign that reinforces their belief that chemtrails are an actual thing.
This is just as insane as anything that comes from extremist groups like Just Stop Oil. It's horseshoe theory in action.
Florida strippers will suffer the most when no one is allowed to make it rain.
Does this include fire-fighting aircraft?
Pre-emptive cloud seeding has been done for many decades around Moscow on major holidays, to make sure it doesn't rain on a military parade. Are you saying DeSantis just banned creating perfect weather around you-know-who's dacha?
Do they have to report every time DeSantis farted in a Florida airport?
Politicians tend to fart often, because they are full of sh*t
Hilarious...
A stupid law, written by stupid people, believed to be necessary by the stupid people who voted the stupid people in.
America is no longer a serious nation. It has become a nation fooled by gaslighting and conspiracy theories. When do we revert back to teaching the world is flat?
Welcome to Magastan!
MFGA!
Well it was israeli laser satellites which sent off California wildfires wasn’t it?
Nah, the Mossad have dirt on Gavin. No satellites needed. It was an inside job to clear the area for a Zion state.
I’m still holding out for a law banning Florida.
@Jack - 100% true!! You made my day.
Checked the date that the letter was signed thinking it was a recycled post from last April 1st. Nope.
Thanks Ben. Just what I needed. It's a slow day at work and I was wondering what would I do. Now, I can't stop smiling. I am getting giddy just thinking about all the comments.
I guess you haven't heard about the rainMaker technology company, the c e o said that they were spraying on july second in texas. But yeah, it's just a crazy florida, man, conspiracy theory
There's no technology capable of inducing huge banks of thunderstorms that dump billions of gallons of water in quick succession. That's cartoon supervillain-level atmospheric manipulation. The amount of energy required to induce an atmospheric phenomenon on that scale would require the whole output of the national grid for many days. What you're suggesting just isn't possible.
Pete, but some ceo on the internet said, they can make it rain! and if it's on the internet, it's true.
What a whack job. Did he also sign into law a bill making UFO’s illegal? Sounds like someone forgot to take their meds again.
The dumbest state, led by the dumbest governor, somehow got dumber.
As I've often said, there are more than 330 million Americans, a significant proportion of whom are eligible to stand for election to public office. Surely you can find better candidates than people like DeSantis, Trump, Biden, AOC, MTG, and the millennial flake who's running for Mayor of New York?
What group of people do they think are modifying the weather?
God ? Lol
It was Rainmaker technology, a california company. Google is free man.
This is what Google has told me about Rainmaker:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rainmaker-cloud-seeding-texas-floods/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/a-cloud-seeding-startup-did-not-cause-the-texas-floods/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jul/07/social-media/naturally-occurring-rainfall-caused-deadly-texas-f/
The space lasers by you-know-who
Democrats LOL
Pretty solid bait and switch strawman with the chemtrails argument. There indeed was a cloud seeding operation that day, but clearly not enough to lead to what happened. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it what’s happened. Florida is outlawing cloud seeding - which is a real thing.
I know it’s hard to find the truth when one side says A caused B (Fox News crowd) and the other side argues A doesn’t exist (what...
Pretty solid bait and switch strawman with the chemtrails argument. There indeed was a cloud seeding operation that day, but clearly not enough to lead to what happened. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it what’s happened. Florida is outlawing cloud seeding - which is a real thing.
I know it’s hard to find the truth when one side says A caused B (Fox News crowd) and the other side argues A doesn’t exist (what your’e doing), and they’re both wrong. A exists, but didn’t cause B. The truth typically lies in the middle.
Or as better said here “ Rainmaker Technology, a California-based company, confirmed it conducted a cloud seeding operation in the region on July 2. However, meteorologists say the operation had no connection to the flash floods that struck two days later.”
Cloud seeding isn’t a conspiracy theory, as you strongly infer at your article’s opening.
@ Sel, D. -- Honest question, is there any evidence of cloud seeding having taken place in Florida in the past 50 years? Because it seems that's about increasing precipitation, and that's not really an issue we have. Maybe it has happened, and I'm just missing it, which is why I'm asking.
@Lucky Florida is fortunate to not often face drought conditions. To answer your question, yes. 1981 South Florida Water Management District. Yes that was a long time ago but less than 50 years.
That being said, your article intro isn’t about just Florida. It’s chemtrails->conspiracy theories->deep state. I think that’s a red herring. Weather modification and cloud seeding is real. Sure some idiots are concerned beyond reality, and Florida likely doesn’t “need” the legislation,...
@Lucky Florida is fortunate to not often face drought conditions. To answer your question, yes. 1981 South Florida Water Management District. Yes that was a long time ago but less than 50 years.
That being said, your article intro isn’t about just Florida. It’s chemtrails->conspiracy theories->deep state. I think that’s a red herring. Weather modification and cloud seeding is real. Sure some idiots are concerned beyond reality, and Florida likely doesn’t “need” the legislation, but I don’t think it hurts. Symbolic legislation happens all the time.
@ Sel, D. -- If it's symbolic legislation, do you think it's appropriate or constructive to require airports to submit monthly reports about this?
Regarding 1981, good catch. It looks like it was an official government program then, for good reason. In the intro, I cited the chemtrail conspiracy theories as an example of concerns about weather modification. I didn't say it was the only one.
No the monthly reports are bloat - I agree, and exactly the type of thing conservatives claim to be against. That being said, there’s a lot of bloat on both sides of the aisle. Strictly outlawing the practice in this case would suffice.
@ Sel, D. -- Hey, it's nice to find common ground. And of course I agree there's bloat on both sides. :-)
Actually, parts of Florida currently seeing drought conditions and a portion abnormally dry. So, probably no cloud seeding going on here. Just a crazy state legislature.
And then there's the space lasers controlled by the you-know-who.
Are they going to be reporting CO2 emissions?
Climate Change deniers believing in "weather modification"... I guess things have come full circle.
+1
It’s real. Rainmaker technologies out of California. You should believe in facts and truth. Just because dumb conservatives believe something doesn’t mean it’s necessarily false - a la Covid lab leak theory.
"...a la Covid lab leak theory."
LOL!!!!!!!11!!!!!!
And the dotard winning the 2020 election!!!!!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Except most reputable sources are saying Rainmaker was not responsible for the floods.
Wouldn't human-caused climate change technically be a form of weather modification? (Of course their definition of weather modification is very selective.)
Chasing nut case conspiracy theories is certainly an efficient use of government...
We used to ignore these people. Now they run the government.
Many people might argue that "rolling coal" in your FLO GROWN adorned, jacked up F350 would constitute "weather changing activities," but I would imagine those people aren't the target of this bill.
Don’t forget about the flatulent cows…
Contrary to popular belief, it's not cow farts that are the problem. It's cow belches.
When ruminants (cows, goats, sheep, antelope, or any other cud-chewing animal) regurgitate semi-fermented plant materials in order to chew their cud, they orally release a ton of methane, CO2, and other trace greenhouse gases, in that regurgitation process.
Those are the issue, not ass-gas.
Well I’ll be - you are right, and that is indeed interesting. This particular Tim D stands corrected and thank you for leading me down that research rabbit hole!
The GOP is not a serious party and 90% of GOP legislators and executives should never hold office again.
That sounds a little fascist to me, doesn't it?
If your takeaway from that was that they should be barred from office rather than being voted out and never be re-elected, that's a you problem. But it's ok, I understand that MAGAts lack reading comprehension.
What do you expect from book banners.
@Dusty,
I think "David" was joking, because nobody is that stupid.
I'll rephrase.
I hope "David" was joking, because nobody is that stupid.
I also hope he was joking, and if that was the case I'll apologize.
They currently poll a whole lot better than the Democrat party lmao
@Jackson
Which honestly is an indictment of the American people. The Democrat party has its issues sure, but anybody trying to both-sides this crap isn't paying attention.