This article ignores the elephant in the room .... contrails dissipate but the real villain, chemtrails, linger in the atmosphere and spread outwards forming the large white trails we see in the sky. Contrails last for minutes only whilst chemtrails can still be in the sky several hours later creating a white shitty soup above us.
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Geoengineering in the form of modifying weather happens. It can save
decimation of farmer livelihoods by mitigating droughts, and it can risk
the global food supply by reducing crop growth. Like nuclear fission,
it’s useful in the hands of sane people working with the knowledge and
assent of the wider community, or it has the potential to destroy much
of what humankind has built if left in the hands of psychopaths. If we
can approach it in a calm and rational manner, we may yet stop the
psychopaths.
During the Second World War, bomber crews were said
to hate the contrails their planes produced, providing white fingers
across the sky that pointed enemy fighters directly to them. These have
seemingly exploded across our skies as commercial air travel has
multiplied, but like boiling frogs, surprisingly few really noticed
until others pointed out the heat. Living in Geneva, Switzerland during
the week-long grounding of aircraft due to the eruption of the
Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland in 2010, we had clear spring skies
for the first time. Not a trail, not a wisp of residual cloud. Normal,
it turned out, was not natural.
Condensation trails, or contrails, are clouds formed
from condensation and from the water and particles that are emitted
from aircraft engine exhausts. Fine particles released in the right
conditions form a nidus on which droplets can form in humid, cold air.
Jet engines also emit water as a combustion product. The very low
pressure on the upper wing surface, the reason airplanes stay up in the
air, also allows water vapor to precipitate. This is well documented,
almost as old as high-flying aircraft, and annoying when you want to
photograph a good sunset in much of Europe or North America.
Contrails can contribute to cirrus cloud formation, while aircraft changing altitude can also create some really otherworldly holes
in cloud layers, such as on airport approaches. Clouds come and go
naturally, from the ground to the upper atmosphere, if the conditions
are right. Aircraft just help the process. And as clouds have sharp
edges (when viewed from a distance), contrails can seem to turn on and
off for the same reason (temperature and humidity at various altitudes).
There is a school of thought that streaks across the sky, or
most of them, only began to appear recently and are the result of
nefarious intent – geoengineering. The theory is that a whole hidden
industry exists to make chemicals, transport them to airports, install
them on commercial (i.e., passenger) aircraft or place in fuel, and then
release at certain times or in certain regions. This, performed at
scale, would require thousands of willing people, who all remain silent
on the issue. This is possible, but people talk, including pilots,
fuellers, manufacturing workers, truck drivers and airport security
guards, and is a little hard to imagine at scale. Part of an air force
may follow some stupid government agenda, and perhaps does. But that is a
tiny minority of flights.
However, airborne geoengineering does happen. It has for nearly a century, particularly with intent to provide rain during droughts or more routinely in arid inhabited regions.
In Australia and the United States, for instance, government agencies
have for many decades sprayed compounds such as silver iodide from an
aircraft to precipitate water vapour and cause rain during droughts. The
hope is to save cattle farmers from ruin or augment a city’s failing
water supply. These are not bad things, while mass cattle death and
bankruptcy often are.
Geoengineering can also be unbelievably stupid....<<<Read More>>>...
