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Summary

The website content discusses the chemtrail conspiracy theory, debunking the belief that contrails from aircraft are actually chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed for nefarious purposes.

Abstract

The article titled "Happy Chemtrails to You (Until We Meet Again)" delves into the chemtrail conspiracy theory, which posits that contrails seen behind aircraft are actually harmful substances being sprayed for various malevolent reasons, such as mind control, population control, or weather manipulation. The author explains the science behind contrails, attributing them to the condensation of water vapor from aircraft exhaust in cold, high-altitude air. Despite the scientific explanation, some conspiracy theorists insist on the existence of chemtrails, citing persistent contrails, cloud formation, and the presence of canisters on planes as evidence. The article refutes these claims, pointing out that the so-called evidence is consistent with the known properties of contrails and that the alleged canisters are ballast barrels used for aircraft testing. The piece also highlights the lack of logic in the conspiracy theory, considering the vast number of people who would need to be complicit and the inefficiency of high-altitude chemical release. The author concludes by emphasizing the absurdity of the chemtrail theory, including the suggestion that spraying vinegar can disperse chemtrails.

Opinions

  • The author views the chemtrail theory as an "odd idea" that has gained traction despite a lack of credible evidence.
  • Conspiracy theorists are portrayed as ranging from calm to hysterical, with some engaging in fear-mongering and others making unfounded claims about the effects of chemtrails.
  • The article suggests that the chemtrail theory is based on misinterpretation of scientific phenomena and a lack of understanding of aviation practices.
  • The author criticizes the lack of logic in the theory, especially the impracticality and implausibility of a global, decades-long conspiracy involving millions of people without a single credible leak.
  • The article mocks the idea of using vinegar to combat chemtrails, highlighting the pseudoscientific nature of the proposed solution.
  • The author points out the futility of the conspiracy, as spraying chemicals at high altitudes would be an ineffective method for affecting populations or the environment.
  • The piece dismisses the theory's claim of a sinister global plot without a clear motive or identified perpetrator, whether governments, corporations, or secret organizations.

Happy Chemtrails to You (Until We Meet Again)

It’s raining chem!

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How could I have not gotten around to this subject yet? After all, there’s a staunch contingent of chemtrail believers in the world. They accept the notion of a world-wide conspiracy to use airliners to deliberately spray nasty chemicals into the earth’s atmosphere.

They don’t mean pollution from the engines. They mean special sprayers that spurt mind-control drugs, or poison, or weather control chemicals, or a mix of these.

Believers point to contrails behind aircraft as evidence. This odd idea seems to have started in 1996 when the U.S. Air Force published a research paper speculating about weather control. Since then, actual weather control hasn’t progressed much farther than cloud seeding, but that didn’t stop the chemtrail idea from taking root.

Some of the conspiracy advocates are calm and fatalistic. They post photos of contrails and dryly comment, “Yeah. So tell me again how this is normal.” Others are over-the-top hysterical. Here’s an excerpt from an appeal that’s currently on GoFundMe.com:

Save Our Planet From Toxic Chemtrail Operations! …They Have Lied To Us About Everything! HELP ME, Save Our Planet! … I am Pleading with The People! Screaming from The Highest Rooftops! … Donate to The Cause as Much as Possible!

Obviously he didn’t know about using vinegar to save the planet, but that revelation comes later in this article.

How contrails are made

Before sinking too far into conspiracy, let’s take a look at contrails (condensation trails). Have you ever seen your breath when it’s cold outside? The little cloud that forms near your mouth shows us how contrails work.

Exhaust from an aircraft engine is mostly water and carbon dioxide. When this warm vapor hits cold air the water droplets freeze to form a contrail. It takes a moment to freeze and that’s why there’s a gap between the aircraft and the place where the trail starts.

Usually contrails form at high altitudes where it’s colder. Here are a few things we know about them:

  • They can dissipate quickly or hang on for hours, depending on factors like humidity, altitude, barometric pressure, and wind.
  • In some cases they spread outwards and create a cirrus cloud layer.
  • You may see a single plane start and stop producing a contrail as it flies through different atmospheric conditions.

Oddly, all three of these points have been used by conspiracists to prove that chemtrails are real. They say only chemtrails can last for hours, only chemtrails can create clouds, and you can watch planes turn their chemtrail sprayers off and on. As just explained, that’s wrong, wrong, and wrong again.

Clouds of conspiracy

As I mentioned before, there is no conspiracy agreement about whether these airborne chemicals are altering the climate, spreading disease, or controlling our minds … but most everyone agrees that it’s something really bad. It’s also not clear who is carrying out the sinister plan — governments, corporations, or super-secret organizations.

The evidence presented to prove the chemtrail hypothesis:

  • Images and videos of contrails
  • Unexplained headaches or other physical or mental symptoms
  • Reports of chemicals being found when water or soil is lab tested.
  • Photos of big metal canisters on airplanes — presumably filled with chemicals.

But no one has ever demonstrated that ground chemicals or bodily symptoms are connected to contrails. As for the photos of canisters; these are ballast barrels that airplane manufacturers place on test planes and fill with water to measure stability and load-carrying capacity.

I visited some chemtrail social media sites and found them percolating with suspicion. Someone posted a photo of the sky and darkly said, “None of those clouds are natural.” I don’t know if the amateur sky expert confirmed this with a meteorologist, but I suspect not.

I found an old BBC article in which one chemtrail believer said, “Twenty to thirty years ago we never saw these trails. We had a beautiful blue sky.” But here’s a link to a film made in 1944 showing high altitude World War II bombers leaving impressive trails in the air.

Another garbled social media post included a photo of contrails and sarcastically said, “Nothing to see here…” They went on to blame chemtrails on elitist pedophiles. Why is it always pedophiles running the show these days? (And the elitist ones are the worst.)

Vinegar to the rescue

According to some believers, you can eliminate those chemtrails thousands of feet above you by putting vinegar in a kitchen spray bottle and spritzing it into the air around your house. I’m not kidding that there are many, many videos of people doing just that.

Follow the link to watch a person walk around a back yard spraying vinegar over her head. It only took about 30 minutes to clear the chemtrails from a large section of the earth.

Logic problems

Vinegar nuttiness aside, the overall chemtrail conspiracy hits a few snags when you think it through.

  • We see commercial aircraft leaving contrails every day. They must all be part of the conspiracy — the pilots and the ground crew that presumably load the chemicals onboard. Every country with aircraft has been doing this daily for decades going back to the 1940s. That involves thousands if not millions of people, but no one has come forward to reveal it. Seems unlikely.
  • The people involved in the spraying would be dosing their own family and friends. Why would they do that?
  • Releasing chemicals high in the atmosphere is a very ineffective way to expose people to chemicals. You’d want to do it inside buildings, or at least very close to the ground.
  • If you go to the middle of the ocean or out in a desert you’ll see contrails overhead — who are they spraying out there?

The last word

Its time now to ACT! and stop this GENOCIDE IN the SKY, SPRAYING TOXIC DEADLY heavy metals, aluminum, barium, silver iodide and more much more onto our children, animals, agriculture, plants, causing death and cancer, and destruction of food crops and birds and insects!

The above is from yet another GoFundMe campaign. This one is called “Chemtrails AUSCHWITZ ARREST THEM NOW!” It started in May last year and has raised 20 euros of its €50,000 goal.

Happy Trails!

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