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Give this a listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1eVTy0bBCg&t=115 Its a NASA scientist Dr. Douglas Rowland at the minimum admitting geo-engineering and that there are different types of "chemtrails" and that they have dumped lithium into the atmosphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_P5KWSXZF4
Down vote me into oblivion but at least give these talks an opportunity before doing so.
I'm surprised to see this article in 2016. I thought chemtrails were debunked decades ago.
> "We wanted to establish a scientific record on the topic of secret atmospheric spraying programs for the benefit of those in the public who haven't made up their minds," said Steven Davis of UC Irvine. "The experts we surveyed resoundingly rejected contrail photographs and test results as evidence of a large-scale atmospheric conspiracy." Not that I disagree with their expert opinions, but this is not a scientific…
But, but, water is a dangerous chemical, which has been used for societal control forever! Reply with a self addressed envelope to receive your free tinfoil trilby.
The idea of chemtrails is appealing to so many people because it's a way to express outrage toward the elites or upper echelons in society. The theories are always a bit vaporous (like the chemtrails themselves), but I think it's stemming from an honest, genuine sense of frustration that one is being cheated or manipulated by a system that doesn't represent them. Chemtrails give a head to this boogeyman.
Sensationalists like Alex Jones assert crazy ideas such as the government tainting our tap water to perform mass mind control and yet at the same time spread this message that they can resist against the upcoming "New World Order." With chemtrails specifically, on YouTube, you'll find videos of people spraying vinegar bottles outside when they see airplane contrails outside, believing it to be some sort of deterrent against their effects. If I believed that the government was capable of shit like super-effective mind control and all that other shit, I'd pretty much believe there's no hope for the world and recline to live the rest of my life in a bunker somewhere.
Given the inherent implausibility of a massive global conspiracy that has such obvious effects but no coherent explanation of... anything... it seems to me that it would be more useful to study why and how people come to believe in these things. The problem is in people's heads, not the sky.
Doubt is reasonable, there's no problem here. Unquestioned belief in "common sense" and what authority figures say is not. A lot of people have a lot to gain by leading the public to believe certain things. Isn't it too naive to assume that you are always being told the truth, when some stakes are so high?
Some sounding rocket missions do release chemicals, including lithium, into the upper atmosphere to study how high-altitude winds behave. That lithium, by the way is a different form than you'll find in psychoactive medications and a very small amount is released anyway.
But many chemtrail people believe that every sounding rocket mission includes chemical releases. Some were very upset about one mission I worked, which had no releasables at all. It was an underflight calibration of the EVE instrument on SDO, so all we were doing was staring at the sun for about 10 minutes. But no, we must have been hiding something, because we were sinister and evil.
As you can see, it is the widespread governmental secretiveness that provides the fertile ground for such "theories".