What is the story behind chemtrails?

Since 1996 there has been an increasing level of public concern over the possibility that a variety of agencies may be using aircraft to distribute chemical and/or biological agents into the atmosphere. The story began with reports of sightings of unusual contrails from high flying aircraft, these trails forming apparent grid patterns and being more persistent in the atmosphere than would normally be expected. It should be noted that chemtrails are distinct from contrails. Contrails, a shortened name for condensation trails are an atmospheric phenomenon whereby the passage of an aircraft through the air caused changes in air pressure and temperature that create streamers of water droplets to form from wingtips and engine exhausts, the condensation trails dissipating over a period of about an hour as wind conditions affect them. Contrails are an accepted and natural occurrence. Chemtrails by comparison are thought to be similar in appearance but caused by the deliberate release of chemical or biological contaminants by aircraft, tending to be more persistent in appearance and to follow paths different from standard flight paths.

Although as a concept chemtrails were first reported in 1996 the history of the known research and and the development of technology goes back quite a long way. US Government documents released under freedom of information requests have shown that through the 1950's experiments were carried out into the effects of airborne particulate dispersal under operations DEW and LAC and project SHAD. These projects investigated the possibility of distributing biological agents in the case of DEW and chemical agents through LAC and SHAD. The Dew experiments were in two parts and involved the release of zinc cadmium sulphide from a ship off the coast of Georgia, and North and South Carolina (DEW1) and more interestingly the release of ZCS and lycopodium plant spores from aircraft over the same area (DEW2). Project LAC (Large Area Contamination) released ZCS over much of the United States to conduct research into airborne dispersal of biological and chemical agents, whilst Project SHAD continued this work by deliberately exposing serving US Navy personnel to a variety of nerve agents and biological pathogens including Sarin and VX nerve gas. These personnel were not aware of the tests and the US Department of Defence denied the existence of SHAD right up to 1998, including denials to US senators and congress members.

So, we have a situation where we know for a fact that the US military has historically tested aerosol and airborne weapons, over the United States, using live agents as well as simulations to the health detriment of its own citizens and serving military personnel in breach of international law and United States rules on experimental ethics. We also have evidence of unusual trail patterns from commercial and military aircraft including grid patterns and off flight path trails, and a categorical denial by multiple international authorities that there is anything to these stories. It seems highly likely that the current chemtrail stories will turn out to be the progeny of these known experiments and test from the 1950's, and that there are some very strange, and very dangerous things happening in the atmosphere that we are right to be very worried about. What is clear is that there is no way that we can trust the word of our politicians, and particularly our military. After all, there is good evidence that when it comes to politicians, they are no more likely to be able to establish the truth than anyone else.

Weather control conspiracy

There is an interesting series of phenomena occurring around the World, and it is causing a major headache for meteorologists and climate scientists and also creating widespread chaos. I use the word “chaos” advisedly because for years we have been told that the reason that the nightly weather is so often wrong, and the reason that weathermen are amongst the most lampooned media figures is that climate is a chaotic system with far too many variables both known and unknown to allow for accurate prediction. The classic story is of the Quantum Weather Butterfly, a small butterfly in the Amazon rainforest flaps it wings twice instead of three times and India is flooded out by monsoons rains far more extreme than normal, and this has been accepted as being the case. This is also one of the reasons given for the conflicting messages of climate change, varying from Global warming to Global cooling and everything inbetween. The system inputs are just not well enough understood to allow accurate prediction.

Ok, so far, but there is a problem with this picture. Evidence is beginning to emerge of several secret projects, the purpose of which are to manage and control and adjust weather patterns. The severe heavy snowfalls in the UK in winter 2010 was caused by a shift in the jetstream from its usual position to the North of Scotland to a position South of Cornwall. According to meteorological models this shouldn't be possible, yet it happened. In 2011 there was an increase in the severity and frequency of the US tornado season beyond any predictions, and this was based on a rising trend in severity and frequency already. In 2009 there was an increase in the severity of the Australian drought, and a corresponding shift in the El Nino current, again beyond what was thought to be possible based on computer modelling. Now, it could certainly be the case that the models are wrong and that our planets climate is genuinely far more volatile than anyone predicted, but there is another possibility.

Those secret projects I mentioned. They come in three flavours, firstly the use of cloud seeding to create rain in areas that otherwise would be dry. This has been used for several years in Kuwait and involves releasing particulate matter into the upper atmosphere from high altitude aircraft. The evidence for this is in the research being carried out in “chemtrails” and are based on research into combating hurricanes taken over by the CIA in the 1970's and passed to Saudi Arabia as part of a deal to allow US military staging during the first Gulf War. The second is the use of space based laser weaponry to cause heating of the Earths crust, altering the climate patterns above the site and causing changes in a wider area. This is the technology used to shift the jet stream in 2010 and is the real reason for the development of the “Star Wars” programme. As an aside, the idea of a space based missile defence system is a nonsense but that is another story. The third method is found in the wastes of Alaska and is known as HAARP (High Frequency Active Aural Research Programme) a technology project that heats the upper atmosphere (ionosphere) and has been successfully used to modify weather be creating temperature and pressure differentials.

So why are these projects being run? As with many such projects there are two reasons. The first is to demonstrate the ability to weaponise the environment, thereby demonstrating the technical capability of attacking opponents remotely, and secondly to demonstrate the ability to exert control over populations by using climate to control food production. What is a step change in conspiracy theory is the openness with which these technologies are being used.