Chemtrails!!

I have been hit from the left this year and from the right and also from the center by Chemtrails.  And I am sick and tired of it.  I have known about the conspiracy theory for years and dismissed these people as crackpots, because they were.  You see Chemtrails started out as fears that jets were polluting the air with something noxious.  But they were at least still connecting the Chemtrails with jet exhaust.  

When I was a kid, and by that I mean about five years old until high school, I went through a bit of an evolution of my idea of what Chemtrails were, but they were never bad.  When I was five and interested in jets and airplanes I saw Chemtrails as a way to find the jets that made them.  I would be out in the back yard and I would hear the rumble of a jet soaring at ten kilometers overhead and I would look for it, but would have difficulty finding it.  The jet at that height, unless there was some reflected sunlight, is almost impossible to see unless you are looking directly at it, but the Chemtrails would point you directly to them.  So Chemtrails were an easy shortcut to watching jets.  

I would look at the jets and watch the Chemtrails expand out the back.  Sometimes the trail would be thin forever, sometimes it would get thick fast and sometimes it would disappear, or never have one.  This was a mystery.  Some people have an explanation for these variables: people are turning the machine on and off and dumping more or less chemicals in the air at different times of the flight.  Luckily no one told me this when I was a kid and I was allowed to have an open mind on the subject.

I continued watching and I learned that clouds were made of water and I made the assumption that since Chemtrails looked like clouds they were made of weather too, which as it turns out (Spoilers) they are.  I did not believe it until I went on a trip with my parents to Mount Washington when I was nine.  There was a railway that went up the mountain powered by a steam engine burning coal.  We went up the mountain and we went through clouds and they were wet just like fog.  Inside the cloud was exactly like fog: difficult to see, clammy, and wet over everything.  Could this be what Chemtrails were made of?  

Growing up in a northern climate I was blessed with alternate observational perspectives of common phenomenon, or in the common parlance, I could see how things changed in different seasons.  Car exhaust, for example, behaves differently in different weather: it is invisible in Summer, it is visible in Winter and in the other seasons it is visible when it is wet or foggy out.  Could jet contrails (Condensation Trails) as they are correctly called be like this?  Jets after all burn fuel like cars, when it is cold or wet out can you see them and when it is hot and dry can you not?

Not long after that trip my parents discovered my passion for weather, it is was a passing fancy that continues to be useful, but whose depths I have yet to plumb out, and bought me a book about weather.  The book and continued school learning allowed me to understand that the sky was not uniform.  It varied in density and temperature with height, there were low pressure and high pressure regions that caused winds, that the Earth's rotation caused everything to move and the convection of watering heat from the low latitudes to the high latitudes caused all the weather.  

What does that have to do with Chemtrails?  The air in the sky is not the smooth uniform thing that it appears to be.  The sky is blue, but the air could be moisture rich or drier than a desert, the temperature could be warm or colder than the coldest day in Antarctica and there could be no wind or it could be blowing up to a thousand kilometers an hour.  These all affect how contrails act.  In water saturated air contrails last, in unsaturated air they don't even appear and in not quite saturated air they fade away.  In windy air they get big and disappear and in calm air they very slowly expand.  They do this because they are mostly water.

Besides water, jet contrails, are made of the same things that car exhaust is made from, colourless gasses like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, there may be som nitrous oxide too.  Jet fuel, is a better refined gasoline similar to kerosine that you might use in a camping stove.  There is nothing strange in it.  One major difference with jets is the amount of fuel that they use.  It was described to me one that a Trans-Atlantic flight uses as much fuel as driving a SUV for a year per person.  200-300 people flying over the Atlantic uses as much fuel as that many SUVs driving for a year.  That means they produce a lot of exhaust.  So much exhaust that if the air is compliant, it will produce a cloud in the jet's wake.  This cloud is mostly made of water, the fuel when burned combines oxygen to hydrogen and oxygen to carbon, but the carbon oxide is gas even at high altitudes and water turns to ice.

That is what jet contrails are why they exist, but Chemtrails are the same thing, just remove reality and stick in the fiction you want to promote.  The fiction that people promote is varied: solar radiation management, mind control, population control, weather control, biological or chemical warfare.  Many of these can be addressed simply.  Mind control, the drinking water would be faster and require less product.  Population control, well that MUST be working because the population is still climbing out of control.  Biological and Chemical warfare, see population control and mind control — drinking water would be more effective and cheaper and people are living longer and having lots of children, so the biological and chemical weapons must be ineffective.  Solar radiation Management, there is something valid here.  Contrails temporarily increase the Earth's albedo and reflect light away from the earth, but wait, they are temporary and they cover a minuscule amount of the Earth that they are ineffective at best and wait for it, they occur at night too.  The best one is Weather Modification, because the increased Carbon Dioxide from the exhaust is adding to global warming!

But there are more conspiracy theories!  There are the theories that Monsanto is spraying Aluminum on crops to kill them and force farmers to use their GMO aluminum resistant crops.  Pure bunk, most people do not know how common aluminum is on the surface of this planet.  Between 7-9% of the soil is made of aluminum on average, with some areas with a lot more.  A lot of the aluminum comes in clay and areas that have higher clay content exist and aluminum toxicity in crops has been documented for longer than there have been Chemtrails and longer than there have been airplanes.  The real problem is soil acidity which allows the aluminum to be absorbed by the plants and acidity is caused by acid rain, which is in turn caused by the collective human population polluting the world.

Another theory is that Monsanto is loading planes with GMO pollen which then fertilizes all the crops and makes them GMOs.  There are too many problems with this theory really.  Pollen needs to be specific to a plant, wheat pollen will only pollinate wheat plants, corn pollen will only pollinate corn plants, and so on.  So how can Monsanto make pollen to fertilize every crop available, they can't.  And how do they get the right pollen to the right plant?  They also can't do that either.  Also, only some crops are pollinated by wind and those pollen grains are light, but many other crops require another vector, like bees to carry the pollen to the flower.  Those grains are large and heavy and would just drop out of the sky.  Pollen has a colour, if it were true this theory Chemtrails would also have colour.  A lot of the Chemtrails fall over areas without crops, so they are wasted.  Monsanto is in business to make money, why would they spend money so frivolously just to get a slightly higher market share, when they could just roll in the billions that they would save and get a slightly smaller market share. 

Chemtrails are starting to not look like contrails now.  There are videos with people pointing to clouds that they identify as Chemtrails which are clearly not.  Contrails are made at altitudes where the clouds are made of ice, 8-16 kilometers above the ground and they are therefore white and wispy cirrus clouds.  Some videos point to cumuli clouds and alto clouds which are made from water vapour and are much lower in altitude.  Other people are pointing to   weather that contradicts what they were told by the weather forecaster.  They were told that the day was going to be cloudless and it is now cloudy, therefore Chemtrails.  Still other people are using Chemtrails as a crutch, I just heard the other day someone say that she did not have a good growing season in her garden because of them, not because there was hardly any sun this summer, it was the Chemtrails.  

I could go on and on and on, there is just so many different things that Chemtrails do.  In the future when I get sad, I will say the Chemtrails are making me sad.