by Raw Egg Nationalist, The National Pulse:

In a welcome development, Tennessee has become the first state in the United States to ban geoengineering. Geoengineering is any form of deliberate intervention to alter the earth’s climate. As the so-called “climate crisis” has deepened, a scenario that was once the province of science fiction and cranks has become a frightening possibility. State and non-state actors are testing large-scale geoengineering projects with a view to implementing them soon. The actual effects of geo-engineering remain anybody’s guess.

The Tennessee House of Representatives and the state Senate have approved a bill targeting several geoengineering technologies. These include attempts to modify the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth, whether by physical barriers in the high atmosphere, through spreading reflective chemicals in the sky, or by practices like cloud-seeding, which is used to increase the amount of rainfall over a particular area. If the bill is signed by the state governor, Republican Bill Lee, it will go into effect on July 1.