Tampa Bay airports working to comply with Florida’s weather modification ban

Tampa Bay airports warned Monday by Florida’s chief law enforcement officer to comply with a state law passed this year that bans weather modification are still untangling the new set of rules, officials said.

In a letter to all public-use airports across the state, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asserted that toxic chemicals sprayed into the air, water and farmland were “destroying human health” and said he would ensure the “skies belong to the people.”

Uthmeier’s words echo conspiracy theories that often dominated lawmakers’ discussion before the bill’s passage this year.

The new state law makes weather modification and geoengineering a third-degree felony punishable by a fine of up to $100,000.

Additionally, the law requires publicly owned airports to report planes that are equipped with weather modification instruments to the Florida Department of Transportation.

Weather modification is just as it sounds: It’s the act of artificially influencing the weather.

Past legislation on the books since 1957 required a person or group to apply for permission to alter the weather in Florida...

Uthmeier’s letter also warns airports about an Oct. 1 deadline to begin filing monthly reports to the state about aircraft equipped with weather modification devices.

“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 to keeping our state safe from these harmful chemicals and experiments,” the letter states.

“In Florida, we don’t jeopardize the public health so that we can bend the knee to the climate cult.”

The state attorney general threatened to withhold public funding and prosecute noncompliant airports to the “fullest extent possible.”