Media scramble to suppress sky pattern inquiries

Israeli media last week scrambled to head off questions about odd patterns that had taken shape in the sky, dismissing most possible explanations as “conspiracy theories”.

Many Israelis were surprised last week to look up and see chaotic patterns of what appeared to be white airplane trails in the Jerusalem skies which lasted several hours. Some speculated that a plane, or planes, had flown over a specified land area for the purpose of releasing aerosols into the air.

Channel 12 quickly ran a report assuring viewers that “there is no conspiracy” and the trails are simply the result of air force training maneuvers. The planes’ exhausts, the anchors explained, create condensation in the cold, high altitudes, creating contrails.

Ynet published an article explaining that these were contrails from European and UAE commercial flights which flew higher than usual for unspecified reasons. Ynet included photos of straight contrails that did not resemble the patterns that had people talking.

While media outlets disagree on the source of the trails, they agree that attributing the phenomenon to anything other than benign contrails is a “conspiracy theory”.

But cries of “conspiracy” by media operatives about planes spraying aerosols or chemicals in the air — referred to as “chemtrails” — are puzzling. Governments around the world openly engage in climate engineering by having planes release certain chemicals into the atmosphere.

With cloud seeding, for instance, pilots spray silver iodide into clouds to stimulate harder rains or even snowfall. Water vapor freezes around the chemicals, eventually falling to the ground in the form of rain or snow. Salt crystals such as calcium chloride are used in warmer clouds.

Texas, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, California and Mexico all currently have cloud seeding programs underway, according to the Wall Street Journal. An experiment conducted in Idaho found that cloud seeding was able to elicit 300 Olympic-sized swimming pools more snow than usual.

Climate utopians are claiming a greater need than ever for climate engineering, or geoengineering, to control the weather. One of the methods proposed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) is stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), that entails releasing sulfates into the atmosphere to offset warming by reflecting solar radiation back to space. 

Last month, UNESCO held a symposium to discuss the impact of geoengineering such as carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation modification techniques.

In 1996, the Department of Defense produced a report titled “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025” in which researchers detailed how the Air Force could manipulate the weather by 2025. This included increasing rain to muddy an enemy’s terrain or reducing precipitation to allow for drier ground and easier troop mobility. It also involved “fog seeding” in which the military would be able to create fog.

Another weather modification technique proposed in the paper is creating storms by increasing latent heat release in the atmosphere and providing additional water vapor for cloud cell development. 

The paper says an artificial ionosphere can be created through “injection of chemical vapors and heating or charging via electromagnetic radiation or particle beams (such as ions, neutral particles, x-rays, MeV particles and energetic electrons).”

The report’s authors note that “many techniques to modify the upper atmosphere have been successfully demonstrated experimentally”.

Furthemore, the word “chemtrails” is not a recent invention by “conspiracy theorists” as much of the mainstream media maintain. The term was used as early as 1990 by the Department of Defense, which created the “Chemtrails Manual” for the Air Force Academy. The manual involves several lab exercises involving chemicals such as silver iodide, which is used for cloud seeding.

It is unclear, therefore, what media outlets are referring to as a “conspiracy theory”. Even the BBC admits that chemical warfare experiments have been done by spraying the atmosphere:

In the 1950s and 1960s, decades before the conspiracy theories were born, much of Britain was sprayed with airborne chemicals in a series of secret germ warfare tests. And in 1950, San Francisco was sprayed with a chemical agent from a ship to gauge the effects of a bioweapon attack on a populated area.

Nevertheless, the BBC goes on to insist that the suggestion of “being deliberately sprayed with tonnes of dangerous chemicals, for an ever-shifting variety of reasons” is a “conspiracy theory”.