Questioning if weather modification created deadly floods in Texas, Florida's attorney general reminded state airports Monday to report any flights planning to alter the Sunshine State's atmosphere.
James Uthmeier, appointed to the chief legal role earlier this year, sent letters to all public-use airports demanding monthly reports to the Florida Department of Transportation on aircraft with weather modification equipment.
The move came days after the Environmental Protection Agency published a new website on weather modification to calm mass hysteria stirred up by vicious flash flooding in Texas that killed at least 130 people.
"As our hearts break for Texas, I can't help but notice the possibility that weather modification could have played a role in this tragedy," Uthmeier wrote Monday, noting that cloud seeding operations—a semi-effective way to induce rainfall—took place days before the floods.
"Because airports are most likely to catch those who seek to weaponize science in order to push their agenda, your compliance with these reporting obligations is essential," he continued. "In Florida, we don't jeopardize the public health so that we can bend the knee to the climate cult."
The Florida legislature passed a new law this session banning weather modification activities, becoming the second state after Tennessee to outlaw injecting, dispersing, or spraying chemicals into the atmosphere to alter weather patterns. Violators face a $100,000 fine.
The law also requires all public-use airports—which include hubs like Miami International Airport and Orlando International Airport—to begin submitting monthly reports on Oct. 1 to the Florida Department of Transportation.
These reports must detail the "physical presence" of any aircraft equipped with devices that could be used for modifying the weather.
The law, sponsored by Republican Sen. Ileana Garcia, was introduced two months after major Hurricanes Helene and Milton rocked the Big Bend just 13 days apart. Some right-wingers like Georgia Congresswoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed the hurricanes were the result of weather control.
She has since vowed to introduce a federal ban on weather modification activities.
Florida has not had anyone apply for a weather modification license in the past 10 years. According to NOAA, Weather modification is defined as the "deliberate or inadvertent alteration of atmospheric conditions by human activity."
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