Cuckoo Award

Today's Cuckoo Award goes out to all the Republicans trying to pass legislation to ban “weather modification” and environmental geoengineering and allude to the use of “chemtrails!”

Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification'
“If it doesn't exist,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a co-sponsor of federal legislation targeting geoengineering, “then you don't have anything to worry about.”

NBC News

By Allan Smith and Matt Dixon

July 29, 2025

For years, outlandish theories about the U.S. government’s using airplanes to spray harmful chemicals over U.S. homes or powerful elites controlling the weather were relegated to the fringes of society.

Not anymore.

As the internet has provided rocket fuel for such claims, Republican lawmakers across the country are introducing, passing and enacting laws to ban “weather modification” and environmental geoengineering and allude to the use of “chemtrails,” a longtime theory that planes are spreading chemical agents on an unsuspecting public. As more people are exposed to dangerous flooding, the GOP lawmakers have pointed to the fringe theories as potential explanations for extreme weather, pushing them further into the political mainstream. (Scientists have found evidence tying the increasing frequency of extreme weather to climate change.)

Republican lawmakers in nearly 20 state legislatures have proposed such legislation, with governors in Tennessee and Florida having signed bills into law. On the federal level, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., recently introduced the “Clear Skies Act,” which would outlaw forms of geoengineering and hit alleged weather modifiers with penalties of up to $100,000 for each violation and potential prison sentences of up to five years.

Quack... quack... quack!

Of course  Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene is involved, she is the leading quacking in Congress!

Greene, who is leading the charge to pass federal legislation to ban weather modification, said she saw “kind of a funny hypocrisy” among climate change activists who are “yelling, ‘We’ve got to stop climate change.’”

“But yet they’re like, ‘No, don’t stop manmade climate change,’” she continued. “So I find that to be a laughable hypocrisy. And so it just doesn’t add up to me.”

It just shows the level of education that the Republicans... none.

“It’s not a conspiracy theory,” Pennsylvania state Sen. Camera Bartolotta, a Republican who co-sponsored legislation in her state, said in an interview. “All you have to do is look up.”

Cuckoo, cuckoo!

“I get a lot of calls on it,” Burchett said, adding: “It’s a hot button issue. … And it’s an issue that was in the real realm of the conspiracy theorists. But if you look [online], you’ll notice that it has taken on a little bit more mainstream. You have one group that says it’s real, and the other group says ‘you’re a lunatic,’ that it doesn’t exist.”

Asked what he would say to someone who believes he is a lunatic for proposing his legislation, Burchett said the bill is a no-lose proposition.

“If it doesn’t exist,” Burchett said, “then you don’t have anything to worry about.”

Does that mean most of your constituents are stupid so you cater to them?

“They’re upset over what they call chemtrails they see in the sky,” Greene said of constituents who have contacted her about the issue. “They’re continually upset about it, and they’re engaged on it. But it hadn’t gotten there on a wide scale. Remember the flooding in Dubai? That was one of the first times I saw, like, ‘Oh, this went mainstream, and people are paying attention.’”

I don't have an idiot award but if I did she would be the first recipient!

“I know so many people today, they’re finally noticing, and it gets worse and worse and worse,” she said. “Every single day, you can’t look at the sky and not see huge stripes sprayed by all these planes every single day and every night.”

Today the award is not given to any one person but to the entire Republican party! They are all cuckoo.

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Okay, that being said, contrails do affect the weather. When the World Trade Center was attacked and all the planes were grounded, well the weather changed. It became one big science experiment!

Contrails reduce daily temperature range

David J. Travis1, Andrew M. Carleton2 & Ryan G. Lauritsen1 

Nature volume 418, page601 (2002)Cite this article

A brief interval when the skies were clear of jets unmasked an effect on climate.

Abstract

The potential of condensation trails (contrails) from jet aircraft to affect regional-scale surface temperatures has been debated for years but was difficult to verify until an opportunity arose as a result of the three-day grounding of all commercial aircraft in the United States in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. Here we show that there was an anomalous increase in the average diurnal temperature range (that is, the difference between the daytime maximum and night-time minimum temperatures) for the period 11–14 September 2001. Because persisting contrails can reduce the transfer of both incoming solar and outgoing infrared radiation and so reduce the daily temperature range, we attribute at least a portion of this anomaly to the absence of contrails over this period.

This is a natural process. The engines burn carbon based fuel and it particles of soot comes out of the engine and water vaper condenses around the particle and creates clouds. If you look at picture of of WWII bomber over Germany there are all contrails coming from their engines!