Secret Weather Wars: Tech Billionaires, Big Gov. Reportedly Control The Weather While You Sleep – Florida Says No More

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Florida lawmakers recently passed Senate Bill 56, the Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities Act, implementing a comprehensive ban on all forms of weather modification in the state.

The bill, introduced by State Sen. Ileana Garcia, defines prohibited activities as “the injection, release or dispersion by any means of any chemical, chemical compound, substance or any apparatus into the atmosphere for the purpose of affecting the temperature, the weather or the intensity of the sunlight.”

Garcia’s legislation draws inspiration from a similar measure Tennessee passed in 2024, responding to constituent concerns despite limited concrete evidence of weather manipulation in Florida.

“There’s a lot of skepticism in regards to this,” Garcia testified to the Florida Senate’s Appropriations Committee.

“There isn’t enough data to back some of the experiments that are currently going on and there’s too much at risk.”

Recently retired Judge Bradford Thomas joined Garcia in supporting the bill.

Having served on Florida’s First District Court of Appeals for 20 years after beginning his career as an environmental permitting lawyer, Thomas likened the ban to actions taken against polluters.

“The burden of persuasion, the burden of proof, if you will, is on the practitioners of this activity to prove it is not harmful,” Thomas stated.

Opposition to the bill came from Augustus Doricko, the 24-year-old CEO of cloud seeding startup Rainmaker, who expressed concern about its impact on his business operations.

Doricko’s company uses drones to disperse silver iodide molecules into clouds to induce precipitation, a practice he differentiates from more controversial geoengineering techniques like solar radiation modification (SRM).

The young entrepreneur, who received initial funding from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, frames his venture in both spiritual and national security terms, warning that China already invests heavily in weather modification technology.

“China spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year on their cloud seeding program,” Doricko explained.

“They have 38,000 employees working on weather modification in Beijing.”

Rainmaker currently holds contracts with multiple western and southwestern states to aid precipitation, with ambitions to assist with snowmaking for the 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, mimicking China’s weather control efforts during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

While Doricko insists cloud seeding with silver iodide is completely safe, the Environmental Protection Agency lists all silver compounds as toxic under its Clean Water Act’s Toxic Pollutants list and categorizes silver as a Priority Pollutant.

Dr. Denise Sibley, a licensed Tennessee physician who testified in favor of Tennessee’s similar legislation in 2023, expressed concern about cumulative effects.

“It’s collecting in the rain water, the marine systems, the agriculture plants, the soil. Is that a good idea? No, because it is a neurotoxic element,” she stated.

The debate around weather modification has historically overlapped with conspiracy theories, something Garcia acknowledged during her testimony.

“What I wanted to do with this is try to look for a way to separate fact from fiction,” she explained.

Independent State Sen. Jason Pizzo, who left the Democratic Party, admitted he initially planned to mock Garcia’s bill but changed his position after hearing testimony.

“I came in here to tease you and bust you, but you’re walking out of here with my ‘yes’ vote,” Pizzo concluded.

Evidence confirms weather modification is not merely theoretical, the Daily Caller outlined.

The U.S. government and military admitted to weaponizing cloud seeding as far back as 1967, using it to increase rainfall over enemy troops in Vietnam and Laos through Project Popeye.

More controversial than cloud seeding is solar radiation modification, which aims to decrease global surface temperatures by increasing the reflectivity of Earth’s atmosphere through aerosol dispersion.

Harvard University has conducted extensive research on solar geoengineering, with Microsoft founder Bill Gates providing substantial funding through personal grants and the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research.

Republican fundraiser Nancy McGowan expressed concern about wealthy backers behind weather modification ventures, noting Doricko’s connections to powerful figures including photos with Jeff Bezos’s wife Lauren Sanchez, who heads the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund, and former President Bill Clinton.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the issue in April, suggesting strategic aerosol injection “is done, we think, by DARPA” and vowing to investigate the practice.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has indicated he plans to sign SB 56.

“The Free State of Florida means freedom from governments or private actors unilaterally applying chemicals or geoengineering to people or public spaces,” DeSantis stated on May 6.

The bill imposes severe penalties on violators, including fines up to $100,000 per offense and potential jail sentences of up to five years for extreme cases.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo supported the legislation, writing on X: “These planes release aluminum, sulfates, and other compounds with unknown and harmful effects on human health. We have to keep fighting to clean up the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.”

Jeremy Redfern, communications director for Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, summarized the state’s position: “Florida always leads in the fight against the left’s agenda, and preventing weather modification is no different.”

“The climate cult believes they can save the planet by blocking the sun, which is Florida’s most valuable resource.”

Resist the Mainstream reported back in October that scientists have unveiled cutting-edge technology that could potentially manipulate weather patterns.

This startling development, initially reported by CBS News over a decade ago, has resurfaced amidst heated debates between political figures and climate experts.

This unearthed footage came just after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) sparked controversy by suggesting government involvement in weather control.

She was instantly fact checked online.

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