Following the chemtrails
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a... chemtrail?
That’s right—according to a growing number of chemtrail conspiracy theorists, the white lines you’ve been seeing in the sky are not the innocuous aircraft condensation trails of times past. In recent years, people around the world have noticed an increasing number of peculiar cloud formations in our skies. While the theories are highly speculative, some suggest the strange, grid-like, crisscrossing plumes that appear to be contrails are actually a form of weather and/or population control.
Jeremy Arney, a Victoria resident who ran as the Saanich-Gulf Islands federal election candidate last year for the Canadian Action Party, thinks there’s something strange going on above us. “I believe that they are conducting experiments on the public,” he says.
And on that note, let’s take a look into the chemtrail phenomenon.
What the heck is a chemtrail?
Remember being young and going to see the Firebirds airshow? Well, the white smoke plumes coming off the back of the jets making pretty patterns in the air are called contrails.
Short for condensation trails, contrails happen when the exhaust gases from jet engines hit the cold air outside and turn into vapour, or, if the air is cold enough, ice crystals.
Although there’s some controversy as to the lasting power of a contrail, many believe the trails seen in the sky today last longer and disperse differently than those we have previously experienced.
Jim Honeyman is the manager of the Victoria International Airport’s air traffic control tower. He has been working in air traffic control for 35 years. He says condensation trails can hang in the sky for varying amounts of time, depending on weather conditions.
“Contrails can sometimes last for hours and hours,” he says. “It all depends on the amount of moisture in the air and the temperature. On a clear, hot day, a contrail could be visible all during daylight hours and may even disperse to form cloud cover.”
A chemtrail, on the other hand, is thought to be the evidence of high-altitude spraying of unknown substances, masquerading as a normal contrail, from military-style aircraft. A chemical wolf in sheep’s clothing, if you will.
Chemtrail theorists claim the trails form unusual grid-like patterns in the sky, they often expand to create cloud cover, and they can sometimes be seen to weep like rain clouds. Believers also claim many of the planes they see spraying chemtrails are unmarked white jets. Honeyman immediately rejects this claim, saying “there are no unmarked jets flying through Victoria airspace.”
What’s the point?
Three main theories are out there about chemtrails and why they exist—weather warfare, population and/or mood control, and large-scale vaccinations.
The first theory, weather warfare or modification, is not a new concept. Creepy and dangerous, but not new or secret.
Many countries have been using weather modification techniques for years. China uses the largest cloud seeding system in the world; in fact, they used it to get rid of all the smog in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.
The US military’s interest in weather modification techniques is, likewise, no secret. In fact, it’s likely that chemtrail speculation was originally sparked by a student essay drafted within the United States Air Force’s Air University called Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather by 2025.
The essay suggests how advantageous it would be to have a device that would modify the weather, especially for military purposes or in times of war. According to the essay, “The capability of influencing the weather, even on a small scale, could change it from a force degrader to a force multiplier.”
In 1997, Edward Teller, also known as the father of the hydrogen bomb, submitted a proposal to the US government with ideas on how to slow down global warming. One of the ideas involved spraying tiny aluminium particles into the air to reflect some of the sun’s ultraviolet rays, while still allowing the planet’s heat to rise up through them.
More recently, Karsten Brandt, a German meteorologist, was shown on a German newscast claiming he has proof that the German army is manipulating the weather through chemtrails. Arguably the most popular chemtrail theory is global chemical spraying; a kind of global sunscreening project. But Environment Canada media relations advisor Tracy Lacroix-Wilson says they are “not aware of any scientific evidence supporting the view that contrails are chemically laden or part of weather modification research projects.” Lacroix-Wilson adds that all aircrafts engines are required to meet “very stringent emission standards” set by international organizations.
The next theory, population or mood control, stems from the unavoidable historical fact that governments have been known to secretly test chemical and biological agents on an unsuspecting public.
From 1964 until 1969, the United States Army staged hundreds of secret germ-warfare testing operations—where plain-clothed agents carrying specially fitted suitcases sprayed the oblivious public with a bacteria-filled mist—in cities all over America.
They called it Operation Bacterium and didn’t admit to its existence until a 1977 Senate hearing, where they continued to claim that there was no risk to the public, despite the distinct possibility that it could have caused outbreaks of disease in some of the tested areas.
It’s not a huge leap, then, to suppose that governments would do it again.
Victoria resident Arney thinks our elected officials, in cooperation with governments worldwide, are doing just that. “To a certain extent, the public’s apathy could well be induced by the chemicals coming from these chemtrails,” he says.
The last of the main theories has to do with large-scale vaccinations via the air; some theorists believe that governments are trying to secretly vaccinate people against pandemics and to combat chemical warfare. While reaching a population through its water supplies is easier, water is also easy to test, people use water filters, and many simply stick to bottled water.
“We all have to breathe,” says Arney, “and the government controls the air.”
Does it make sense?
The evidence is very convincing, but do these theories stand up to logic? In the chemtrail case, the questions are not just about who would do this and why, but also—the most important question—what’s in it for them?
Victoria resident David Kool, who has extensively studied conspiracy theories, doesn’t buy into what he calls “the chemtrail hoax.” ”I just don’t see any profit in it,” he says. “It would cost billions of dollars. If the government was spending that much money to mitigate the effects of global warming, why would they keep it a secret?”
“And, anyway,” he continues, “the first people to suffer from global warming are going to be the little guys, poor people in developing countries. Since when has government ever done anything purely for the benefit of the poor, unless they were lining their own pockets by doing so?”
Kool also believes it would be impossible to hide such a large-scale project. “Clinton couldn’t even hide getting a blowjob in a closet,” he says, “so how is our government going to hide an operation which would have to involve thousands of people?”
It’s questions like this that, for now, remain unanswered.
There are crucial pieces of information that were not included in Following the chemtrails [Sept. 23 issue] that you may want to readdress if you wish to remain credible. Other news organizations have had studies done and found chemtrails to contain barium, aluminum, cadmium, chromium, and other toxins. This is well-known info among the chemtrail research community. We are way past “whether or not they exist” and are working on ways to stop them from spraying any more. Another area of interest is the chemtrail mind programming in advertisements and kids’ movies that is taking place by corporate media.
There’s no doubt that chemtrails exist. Also known as cloud seeding, they are used to induce or retard rainfall or to shrink hailstones and have been in constant use in North America since the 1930s. Chemtrails are merely the chemicals from cloud seeding in action. China seeded clouds to ensure ideal weather for the 2008 Olympics; it’s no huge stretch to think the BC government is going employ some of the same technology to ensure prime winter conditions for the 2010 Olympics. Climate-change scientists are scrambling to find ways to slow global warming. Spraying the lower stratosphere with sulphur dioxide will help cool the planet—this is what happens when a volcano erupts—and this is the cheapest and easiest of the ideas on the table. Those who think that world governments have not sanctioned the testing of climate-cooling technology should think again. Cloud-seeding chemicals don’t come out of the plane’s engines; they have dispersal cannons under the wings. So the government source in the article was right—the contrails aren’t chemically laden. But I’ll tell you why the government would want to hide chemical spraying to mitigate global warming—any chemical they use will have some negative effects on the environment. Sulphur dioxide will create acid rain! They will want to test the effects before they let the public know about the spraying. Damaging the environment is bad for publicity, but apparently not as bad as damaging the economy.
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Thank you so much for your attention to the chemtrail problem. I am an associate editor at a nationally-distributed publication, and I have been pursuing an independent investigation through Transport Canada, Navcan, Environment Canada, and the municipal Victoria government for several months now, and have been repeatedly told to speak to other agencies - until finally I received some attention from Transport Canada's media relations department. They provided no information except a denial of the existence of chemtrails, despite the photo and video evidence I provided them. When pressed, they gave me a detailed scientific explanation of contrails, the normal vapor that appears behind aircraft. When I again pressed further, in a polite and respectful manner - the responses stopped.
It is clear that no answers - at least from the government - will be forthcoming in reference to this environmental hazard, which continues blatantly to this day. With my morning coffee, I watch as thick aerosol trails gradually disperse over the gardens, homes, and inhabitants of Victoria, all while the 'authorities' insist that nothing is out of the ordinary.
Taxation without representation? At the very least - and potentially, much worse. The word 'Complicity' comes to mind.