Chemtrails

During my search for information on contrails for the previous two posts, one word kept on coming up which didn't seem to want to go away: chemtrails. 

It is not very scientific of me to be doing a post on them, as you will see! but it was so persistent a word (try searching chemtrails for yourself!), that I thought I would do some digging...

Chemtrails are part of a conspiracy theory. It is the belief that governments are using  aircraft to spray chemical or biological agents for numerous top secret reasons. It is thought they are unlike contrails because they are longer lasting. Just in case all sorts of questions are racing through your mind at this point, rest assured that we in the UK are safe. Earlier this year, UK government via the Department of Energy and Climate Change stated that the "UK population is not being sprayed" after a freedom for information request. 

We all need an education  

Surprisingly, I could not find many scientific articles or journals on the matter. I managed to find an article in Australian Science, in an article entitled 'Chemtrails - Conspiracy theory?'. In it the contents of an hour long video entitled 'What in the World are they Spraying?' made by political activist Michael Murphy are addressed - especially the release of aluminium and its consequential health effects.

It is unlikely we will find evidence for the nanobots being deployed into the atmosphere via aircraft to modify the weather as the link below the picture above describes. Saying that, I found news articles from the BBC and Guardian reporting on how previously classified documents have suggested that experimental cloud seeding conducted by the RAF that was occurring at the beginning of the 1950s were partly responsible of the 1952 floods at Lynmouth, in which 35 people were killed. It remains an allegation that has not been proved. Early scientific studies such as Cooper and Jolly, 1970 have suggested that the sustained use of silver iodide in cloud seeding could have detrimental effects on some ecosystems, and that there was a responsibility to monitor the environmental impacts of such technology. 

I'll let your thoughts simmer whilst you watch this video...