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Review this excellent website overview of the subject: Contrail Science: http://www.contrailscience.com Also see the Discovery Channel series on "Chemtrails": 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVFuOZu7Xhg 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCFoHlwibcU 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwvUhalx-lU Note from James DeMeo, PhD, author of this webpage: The above Discovery Channel documentary leaves open the possibility for undisclosed government or military weather-modification experiments which might be spraying something into the atmosphere. This I agree is a possibility, and if it is taking place, then it should be exposed and subject to open public debate. But this would, by its very nature, dramatically limit the number of aircraft spraying such offensive materials. The advocates of "chemtrails" are not so conservative in their estimates, however, and given their claim that nearly all persisting jet contrails are "chemtrails", and the large number of geographical regions where "chemtrails" are claimed to be sprayed, this would require a gigantic global effort equal to that of nearly all of global civil aviation. For that, there is no evidence whatsoever. The issue of geo-engineering has also recently been raised as claimed "evidence for chemtrails" when in fact these schemes -- which I consider to be very bad and even irresponsible science -- have nearly zero support for actual experimental applications. Only in a few cases have very limited geo-engineering projects been actually carried forward as experimental tests, and they were subjected to extreme opposition by environmental groups, as well as intensive public scrutiny of what they actually did. Chemtrail advocates latch on to geo-engineering and say "see this is evidence of chemtrails" when it most surely is not anything of the sort. They also lie and fabricate "evidence" as with the stupid claims made about spray apparatus on aircraft surfaces, which any educated pilot will tell you are for instrumentation or other rather ordinary purposes. More recent films jump from chemtrail claims to geo-engineering, and from there to making weather-modification efforts more sinister than they already are, including additional basically-true but fully irrelevant points about Monsanto and other Big Government schemes. None of it confirms the idea of massive abuse of civil aviation to spray poisons across the countryside, nor exposes any motivation why pilots and ground-crews would be so enthusiastic about poisoning their own families and countrymen. Note I am also a critic of the CO2 theory of Global Warming, and do not support weather modification experiments utilizing chemical or metallic agents sprayed into the atmosphere, nor geo-engineering, nor GMO crops from Monsanto. My background is in geography, climatology and environmental science. I am in fact one of 700 PhD-level climate scientists who lent their name to Senator Inhofe's US Senate Minority Report of 2008 presenting a summary of scholarly opinion critical of the CO2 theory as presented to the US Congress, as well as to have signed the 2009 Open Letter to President Obama along the same lines. Seen this photo on the "chemtrail" websites, claimed as "proof"? Click on it to see what it really is. Also review these photos of aircraft parts and interiors often misrepresented as "proof of chemtrails". SUMMARY (Details and Citations Given Below): 1. The term "chemtrail" is a re-definition of ordinary Aircraft Contrails, and includes the claim that they are something "new", that poisons are being deliberately sprayed on the general population from commercial and military aircraft, and includes such details as "chemtrails persist while contrails do not". At root, this is a regrettable misinterpretation of classical air-pollution and aerosol science, and of known meteorology of clouds and contrails. But in many cases, the "chemtrail" idea is promulgated as a deliberated falsehood connected with politically-motivated conspiracy theory. Or, the "chemtrail" idea is further abused in schemes to sell devices which will "eliminate chemtrails" and "save the world". In fact, ordinary aircraft contrails have been observed, and observed to persist or even spread across the sky, since the very first days of high-flying aircraft. There also is no proofs that the claimed toxic materials gathered from the air are anything different from what would be found if no aircraft were flying overhead. On a few rare occasions, people have witnessed cloud-seeding aircraft, or aircraft spraying pesticides on crop fields, and we might even allow for the even more rare example of an experimental aircraft spraying something unknown. But that is no evidence for the larger "chemtrail" conspiracy theory, of massive fleets of government or military aircraft deliberately spraying toxins into the air, or that civilian passenger jets have been secretly modified to spray unknown poisonous materials. 2. There are some regions where aircraft contrails have become more frequent than in the past. This is due to the increase in civil aviation and passenger jet traffic over the decades. If you live under an air-corridor, which are like "highways in the sky" where jets frequently fly overhead, or a region where two or more of the air-corridors cross overhead, then you will observe many more aircraft contrails than people living elsewhere. Especially if you live within 50 miles of a major airport, where passenger jets will routinely descend to just below cloud level, cruising at 5000 feet or lower and making all kinds of turns as part of their approach to the runways, the contrails will not only be very abundant, but will also then appear to criss-cross each other. Especially near big city airports, you will see an abundance of such contrails, and also get an unhealthy dose of ordinary air pollution, as the exhaust from jets is substantial -- they basically use kerosene-like fuels, mixed with other fuel additives. When they take off and land, anyone living nearby will get a nasty smell from all of that. But you would never experience direct air pollution from a high-flying jet, thousands of feet overhead, as by the time that jet passed over the horizon, the exhaust from it would still be blowing around in the upper atmosphere, and it might take days or weeks before it would filter down to the ground level, and only then in some distant location. Any aircraft exhaust mixes with the atmosphere and is blown by the winds, but does not settle down to the ground except when those aircraft are at low altitudes. The atmosphere is also naturally charged with mineral dusts blown up from the exposed earth in rural or desert areas. Dusts blown up from urban areas can also contain an abundance of very toxic materials, such as petroleum-combustion by-products, materials from the wear of tires and brake linings, from land-fills and factories, etc. But none of that provides support for the larger conspiracy theory about "chemtrails". 3. For those who want a global satellite view of the problem of atmospheric dusts and aerosols, and pollutants from urban industrial regions, I highly recommend to view the TOMS satellite images, which are put into a moving day-to-day loop at this website: https://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol_web/loop_html/toms_noaa_globaer_gmt_loop.html This website shows how tiny invisible aerosol dust-particles move from the large Saharasian Desert Belt outwards around the globe, to affect and choke-up distant regions. It also tracks aerosol particles from agricultural smoke, as from the widespread "slash and burn" methods used in the tropical regions. It additionally detects and displays sulfate pollution in the atmosphere, as comes from industrial regions. In fact, from observing a few days of this moving satellite loop, one gains the impression that there are very few places on our small planet which are not periodically afflicted with aerosol and chemical air pollution from desert-dusts, agricultural burning, or industrial pollution. In fact, industrial pollution seems to constitute the smallest fraction of the problem, though in the Northern Hemisphere regions removed from both big deserts and burning tropical forests and grasslands, it is the major problem. It suggests an atmospheric problem which began many thousands of years ago, of massive deserts and fire-smokes spreading their hazy and stagnant atmospheres around the world and even across the oceans, creating droughts and heat-waves in distant lands. When those fearing of "chemtrails" look up in the sky and see the thin hazy layer which blocks out the sun, or when the lower atmosphere if filled with hazy aerosol pollution (which can include all the mineral constituents of soils) and suffer respiratory problems, the long-distant transportation of desert-dusts, agricultural smokes and industrial pollution is the very likely cause. That they should observe airplanes scooting through that same atmosphere, and leaving contrails behind them, is with few exceptions purely coincidental. 4. Some of the chemtrail websites identify laboratory results where rainwater was analyzed for the presence of unusual minerals. However, the presence of insoluble minerals in rainwater, such as aluminum or barium, is a fairly natural occurrence, and cannot be attributed automatically to some kind of mysterious aerial spraying. Raindrops form around tiny mineral aerosol particles, the cloud condensation nuclei, and those particulates come down with the rainwater. Certainly from aircraft alone there is much "stuff" coming out the exhaust, and close to airports where they cruise at lower altitude in the landing and take-off patterns, that material will quickly drift down to the ground. It will often smell like the typical diesel-powered bus or large truck. Gasoline and kerosene as used in propeller or jet aircraft is a toxic brew, with all kinds of mineral material brought up from deep within the Earth when the crude oil is originally pumped, plus all the additives and conditioners put into the fuel at the refineries. Homes close to airports will sometimes get quite a dose of this, and the jet exhaust can be smelled. Likewise, in industrial regions where the burning of petroleum products or coal is abundant, these and many other naturally-occurring minerals, plus other exotic compounds created from combustion, will be injected into the atmosphere, and blow widely around. Likewise in regions of heavy automobile traffic, for similar reasons. Such minerals are also natural constituents of the Earth's crust, which is how they get into the petroleum products and coal materials in the first place. They are also taken up into vegetation from soils and groundwater, and from there can be injected into the atmosphere when the vegetation burns. Tropical soils are especially rich in aluminum and iron oxides, and barium is a trace mineral found in soils and glacial loess. Dust storms over the large deserts, or from barren loess regions inject massive quantities of this material into the atmosphere. An internet search of word groups or phrases such as "barium in soils" or "aluminum in aerosols", "barium in desert dusts", etc., will turn up dozens to thousands of websites, mostly being research papers by agricultural scientists, geologists or air pollution specialists. One merely has to review the titles or Abstracts of those articles to confirm how these and many other mineral constituents are found in fire-smokes and desert or glacial-loess dust clouds, being blown around in the atmosphere globally, and sprayed out tail-pipes and industrial smoke-stacks around the world. We should therefore expect to find those minerals in any atmosphere where desert dusts or agricultural smokes are blowing around, and of course the weblink given above to the TOMS aerosol satellite gives a real-time confirmation of the worst aspects of this problem. This is basic "Air Pollution 101" science, which seems to be thrown out the window in all the rush to blame atmospheric problems on the CIA, or the UN, or Morphing Space Lizards (see below for details on that). In one recent rainwater sample I know about, taken from Mt. Shasta region where claims were made of frequent "chemtrail" spraying, the levels of aluminum were found to be 1.01 milligrams per liter. However, by EPA estimates we eat about 7-9 milligrams of aluminum in our food every day, given how it is a naturally-occurring element in the Earth's crust and soils. So if you drank 7-9 liters of that rainwater, you'd be getting about that same amount as from food. There is a bigger problem, in my opinion, with aluminum cooking pots, or people overdosing on aluminum compounds in antacid pills, or aluminum in anti-perspirants. Barium in that same sample showed only 8 micro-grams per liter, or 8 parts per billion, an exceedingly tiny amount. By comparison, the EPA sets a limit of 2 milligrams per liter for barium in drinking water, which is equal to 2 parts per million. In that case, at least, there was no evidence to support the claims of high levels of aluminum or barium in the atmosphere. 5. Another aspect of the "chemtrail" phenomenon which the believers have embraced, perhaps without considering too carefully the implications, is the need for a conspiracy of airline pilots, ground crews, fight controllers, and both military and civil aviation authorities in the willful poisoning of their own families, neighbors and fellow citizens. Why would they do this? Or more to the point, if this was being done -- as "orders" from the military, or from "bosses" in civil aviation -- why would not these pilots and ground crews refuse the orders, and go public in a loud manner. One has to presume, some kind of zombie-like stupor which would persuade these skilled professionals to happily spray poisons all over everyone, including those whom they love. Someone has to fill the airplanes with the claimed toxic chemicals, fly the aircraft over the claimed "target area" and then throw the spray-switch. It is simply not credible that large numbers of ordinary military and civilian employees would do that, without it becoming public knowledge and a major ruckus being created about it. What answer do the chemtrail advocates have for this? Nothing, aside from vague claims of unknown persons who are said to have made public testimony, but nobody listens to them. Or it is claimed, they are fearful for their lives if they dare to speak out, and that kind of thing. But this "explanation" is even more incredulous than the chemtrail theory itself. I know fully well about taking personal risks in favor of exposing government or corporate malfeasance, and how retribution can come from doing that. And I know plenty of people who also have stood up for unpopular causes, or to expose deadly situations of equal consequence to the claimed "chemtrail poisoning". None of them hide behind the cloak of anonymity, and they have sacrificed jobs, professional standing, and taken great risks. So that requirement of the chemtrail theory is simply not believable. And it is not like the Manhattan Project, where secrecy was maintained through motives of patriotism during a terrible war against fascist aggressors. So how do the leaders of the chemtrail cult explain this? They have an even more profound answer to this question, of why and how pilots and their supporting crews would be willing to poison their own families and neighbors. Their answer is, that these skilled mechanics and pilots had been "taken over by shape-shifting space-aliens" of a "reptilian" nature. They are fully convinced of this, and say it with a straight face. This crazy idea comes from the science-fiction writer David Icke, who has written multiple books on the subject, and who apparently is quite busy selling books and giving lectures to all the people who believe his stories as fact. The idea was taken up by the original chemtrail cultists due to its paranoid resonance with the "evil extra-dimensional demons" postulated by the Saint Germain cult out of Mt. Shasta, which is where some of the major chemtrail and chembuster advocates came from. So that is their answer, to the big "Why" -- shape shifting reptilians from outer space have substituted themselves in the place of all these professionals, and into high-up positions of government and military (internationally now, to include the UN officials). They are, by this idea, out to poison the population of planet Earth, for a final space-alien take-over. Whether you have seen a UFO or not, or believe in the concept of extra-terrestrial civilizations is not at issue here. I personally have seen unidentified objects flying in the day or night sky, and have written about them. And I agree with Carl Sagan and other professional scientists, who have computed there must be tens of millions of inhabitable Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone. There is plenty of good scientifically-defendable evidence and reasonable arguments which can be made in favor of the basic UFO question, that they might be inhabited spacecraft from extraterrestrial civilizations. But it is a gigantic leap fully lacking in independent evidence, to proclaim into existence a fairy tale about "shape-shifting reptilians"... even if such an idea is necessary for the equally unproven claim that all persisting jet contrails are "chemtrails". 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