Contrails and chemtrails, oh my!

Contrails and Chemtrails

In my previous blog, I promised that contrails and chemtrails would be the topic of my next blog after I found time to do the research. Thanks to my super busy schedule, including scheduled drinking by entertainment committees, I haven't yet had the time to do any research. But I have to prepare a 1-minute speech for my midterm tomorrow so I figure I can keep track of my research and write my blog at the same time. Have I mentioned I'm quite fond of the one stone-two birds approach? On second thought, let's just write my speech right here...

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I was sitting in the backyard having coffee with Annie, my landlady, the day after I moved to Victoria when all of a sudden she pointed at the sky and said, "Oh, they're putting an X up there again."

Who are they, I wondered, and what is she talking about, anyway? I looked up and saw a big white X in the sky that looked like skywriting. "Neat!" I said.

Annie looked at me. "No, it's not," she said, and proceeded to tell me about contrails and chemtrails.

Who here knows what contrails are?

wait for hands, ask for definition

According to Wikipedia, "contrails are formed by condensation of water vapor in the aircrafts' exhausts."

Contrails are the white trails we see behind airplanes. They result when water vapor condenses in airplanes' exhausts, and they require a certain humidity and temperature range in order to form. They typically dissipate within about 30 seconds, give or take.

Some contrails, however, don't dissipate. Not only do they not dissipate, but they make strange patterns like grids, exes, and crosshatches. They started showing up in the 90s in various parts of the US, and started showing up in Victoria about seven years ago. Needless to say, these contrails are called chemtrails, and have garnered several theories as to what they are.

Some of the theories include things like biological warfare, mind control, and occult purposes. The main theory going, however, and the one that Annie filled me in on, is about weather modification.

According to proponents of weather-modification conspiricies, the US government is spraying aluminum oxide and barium into the sky to deflect one per cent of the sun's rays to cancel out or reverse global warming. This is also called global dimming. I think it's really scary if it's true.

Both the U.S. and Canadian militaries deny any such thing, of course. They maintain that the trails called chemtrails are merely contrails that are influenced by higher altitudes, and that patterns in the sky are the result of wind pushing the trails aside in an orderly way. It's interesting these same institutions claim that at that altitude, the winds are too unpredictable to allow for controlled weather modification.

I’m not much for conspiracy theories, but the research I’ve done here won’t let me rule this particular one out. Annie’s had some rainwater tested, and it came back with high aluminium and barium levels. And no matter what, that X sure looked like it had a purpose.

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OK, this speech is way too long for a minute, so I'm going to edit it down in Word now. Here are some links that I don't have time to explore in any depth:

NASA releases alarming chemtrail photo

Tape Seems to Confirm Chemtrails A Military Operation
Whitley Streiber's Unknown Country

The Government's Top-Secret Efforts To Control Mother Nature
By Bob Fitrakis and Fritz Chess
ColumbusAlive.com

Chemtrails - Coming Out Of The Closet?
Marcus K. Dalton
Tribune Media Group