Iowa House GOP advance anti-‘chemtrails’ bill

Following other GOP-led states, 23 House Republicans have signed on to an anti-‘chemtrails’ bill in Iowa despite not having any hard evidence it is actually happening.

The bill states it would ban the intentional emission of air contaminants into the atmosphere with the intent of changing the weather.

It’s an issue House Speaker Pat Grassley said his constituents brought to his attention.

“Some would just say well it isn’t happening,” Rep. Grassley said. “Others would say it is happening. I think it’s something we need to have a discussion about as a legislature.”

Republicans advanced the proposal after hearing from Iowans during a subcommittee. Many of the concerns center around a debunked ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy.

According to a Harvard research group some believe theres a secret program to spray toxic chemicals into the atmosphere that looks similar to contrails which are the cloud-looking product that form behind airplanes. The groups said they haven’t seen any credible evidence that chemtrails exist, neither have state Democrats.

“I don’t see any motivation or evidence that this is happening,” State Rep. Ken Croken (D-Davenport) said. “Nor do I see any benefit the perpetrators of these alleged actions.”

The Harvard team said there is research and studies being done to combat global warming through solar engineering but said it’s not currently being tested outside.

Rep. Croken voted against moving the bill forward and acknowledges there may be fears but said theres a lack of evidence.

“If we are concerned about air quality there are many bigger fish that we should go after rather than a suggestion that somebody believes that somebody unnamed is doing something unclarified to cause us illness,” Rep. Croken said.

Speaker Grassley said there’s still a lot unknowns but he expects the conversations among House Republicans to continue.

“Just the fact that we really can’t get answers to whether it is actually happening who may be doing it, those are the kinds of discussions we just need I think have to have as we’re making those decisions,” Rep. Grassley said.