Please Mr, President. Help us out with this issue.
A five page research paper I wrote for English class last semester at CalU addresses the chemtrail conspiracy
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Research Paper
17 April 2009
Chemtrail Conspiracy-Something IS going on
Conspiracy theories, such as the 9-11 theory, are usually thought of to be bogus, but there are small groups who strongly believe in them. Most believe conspiracy theories are not true mainly because they believe the government is protecting us and the theory usually has no affect on them. There is one theory, though, that affects all of us. The chemtrail conspiracy has been going on since the late 90’s. No one is sure if the purpose is for modifying the weather, population control, or even to fight the West Nile Virus. Although the government does not confirm the chemtrail activity, Americans need to be aware and prepared for its affects.
First of all, chemtrails are streaks of chemicals created in the air by spray systems on airplanes at any altitude. Unlike regular contrails, which last in the sky for 10-20 seconds due to condensation, chemtrails last for hours and eventually ‘haze-out’ and create a canopy of man-made clouds.”According to the U.S. Airforce, contrails are condensation trails and happen when hot engine exaust momentarily condenses ice crystals into pencil-thin vapor trails that quickly vanish like the wave behind a boat, very much like your breath when talking outside on a cold, winter day. Chemtrails, on the other hand, linger for hours and will spread out to form large areas of “cloud” cover.” (Chemtrails 911) After chemtrails are made by unmarked planes, they look like thick, rope-like, contrails. When there are multiple chemtrails in the sky they will usually criss-cross or appear in parallel lines.
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One man in Abilene, Texas, strongly believes in this theory. Darrin McBreen, a is the creator of a popular You Tube video “Danger in The Sky—The Chemtrail Phenomenon”(Bethel) McBreen believes chemtrail sightings can be linked to weather experimentation
with side effects such as an increase of elements such as aluminum and barium in drinking water supplies and in the air. He finds it pretty extreme to believe chemtrails are some type of population control, “But the United States has a long history of chemical and biological testing on its own personnel,” he said to Abilene’s reporter-news. (McBreen qtd. in Bethel) When asked about where this mistrust comes from, he responded; “I’m here to tell you that the mistrust comes from our government’s proven track of lying to its own people” (McBreen qtd. in Bethel)
There is a bill that allows experimental weather modification that was quickly passed in 2006, the U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995. “This bill is designed to implement experimental weather modification. The appointed Board of Directors established by this bill does not include any agricultural, water, EPA, or public representatives, and has no provisions for Congressional, State, County, or public oversight of their actions or expenditures.” (Peterson, 16) People need to know how this could impact agricultural crops and water supplies and who it will benefit. “If weather is changed in one state, region, or county it may have severe consequences in another state, region, or county.” (Peterson, 16) Does this sound like it can benefit any of us? “And, who will be responsible to determine the synergistic effects of these programs or pay for unintended disasters created by this experimentation. If these programs change growing seasons and interrupt the pollination process, crop losses could be substantial exacerbating economic losses.” (Peterson,16) Isn’t our economy already bad enough?
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Many people seem to believe that there is even a disease that is linked to chemtrails. This disease is called Morgellons. There is no evidence to support it, and nobody really knows how it forms or what it really is even. Doctors say that people who have self-diagnosed themselves with Morgellons has a psychological problem. People who claimed to have it had fibers emerging from under their skin, lesions, and itchiness. When people saw chemtrails in the sky persisting for hours, they felt unwell and figured that it linked to the cause of Morgellons disease. “Both ideas grew on the internet. With a hundred million people on the internet, if only one in a million people agree with you, that’s a hundred people. Like-minded people group together, and discuss their experiences and theories.” (Michael) So, while the Morgellons idea persists, it is not clear that it is from chemtrails or that it actually exists until it is researched further.
Chemtrails is not mentioned by the government, and there is really no way to find information unless you go on the internet. A lot of the chemtrail websites are made by believers, some with truthful information, and some seem to be bogus. “Particulate matter in the sky is called aerosol. If you search the scientific media for information on aerosols you will discover that there are literally sources of organizations (military, academic, commercial, environmental, and governmental) involved in studying, monitoring, tracking, and placing aerosols in the atmosphere.” (Smith, 8) Still, nobody is quite sure of the purpose of this spraying. “There is not just one program running or one purpose to this alleged spraying. I have found that there are many players, many technologies for many purposes, injecting an amazing variety of aerosols into our environment.” (Smith, 8) Many more individuals need to look up and see the clear, morning sky develop into a milky, white opalescence sky in the late afternoon due to these chemtrails. Jerry E. Smith, author of Weather Warfare, makes a good point in the introduction to
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his book. He says, “After a week of no commercial fights over the United States in the wake of the horrific events of 11 September 2001, atmospheric scientist were able to take new measurements of an unmodified sky. They found that these “clouds” produces by contrails – chemtrails if you will – did in fact reflect back into space solar energy during daylight hours and trap in heat at night, adding about .5 degrees Fahrenheit to the average temperature of North America.” (Smith, 9)
One man, named Kevin D. Martin, says that chemtrails are not real. “They are not spraying us through Southwest, American, or United Airlines, from which I’ve taken from my telescope to and seen with my own eyes, there trails come from the known airliners.” (Martin) Although he does not believe in the chemtrail theory, he does believe that people could still be getting sick from the trails in the sky. “Precipitation is the leading cause of cleaning our air out. What if the toxins inside plane exhausts precipitates? Rain and snow can absorb these chemicals and bring them to the surface over a large area. What if our very own transportation service in the sky is poisoning the surface as an acid rain effect? “(Martin) While the chemtrail theory could be true, so could the fact that regular commercial flight exhausts are polluting the atmosphere and coming down to the surface with precipitation. The only government information open that has been seen by the public is the plans for the Tropospheric Aerosol Program (TAP). The government confirms, “Much of the science that had been planned for the Tropospheric Aerosol Program will in the future be conducted under the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Science Program, which, beginning in Fiscal Year 2005, will focus on radiative forcing of climate change by atmospheric aerosols.” (ARM-ASP-Aerosol[…] qtd. by “Chemtrails: Fact of Fiction?) Although it does not exactly state anything
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about chemtrails, they are still spraying aerosols into our atmosphere which could affect us all in the long run. The government posted this statement in 2003, but most theorists believe aerosol spraying has been going on since the late 1990’s. “Since approximately 1998, thousands of people started noticing airplanes spraying X’s, parallel lines, and grid patterns across our skies.” (Chemtrails 911) An aircraft mechanic’s story has also been released when he found strange equipment on an aircraft he was working on. When he had asked his general manager about it, he was suspended for a week. He then realized what it could be when he looked on the internet. It all came together. Afterwards, he went to work and found a note in his locker that said, “Curiosity killed the cat. Don’t be looking at Internet sites that are no concern to you.” He was being watched. (Chemtrails: Fact or Fiction?)
If chemtrails have been around so long, why do people still not realize what is going on? When asked about the abnormal sky, most people would respond that they do not see anything different about the sky. Hopefully, one day, the chemtrail theory will be exposed. Whether the conspiracy is true, or not, of the country should know about it.
Works Cited
2006. Santa Cruz, California. Web. 5 April 2009.
Bethel, Brian. “Abilene Man Wants to Warn You About the Dangers of ‘Chemtrails’.”
1 July 2008. Web. 5 April 2009.
“Chemtrails-Fact or Fiction?” 25 September 2005. Web. 5 April 2009.
Martin, Kevin D. “Chemtrail Theory Proven False.” 4 December 2008. Web. 5 April 2009.
Michael. “Morgellons and chemtrails.” 26 May 2007. Web. 16 April 2009.
Peterson, Rosalind. “Weather or Not: 2006 Experimental Weather Modification Bill Fast
Tracking for Passage in Congress.” The Connection Magazine. April 2006. 16-17. Web.
5 April 2009.
Smith, Jerry E. Weather Warfare: The Military’s Plan To Draft Mother Nature. Introduction.
30 December 2006. 7-9. 5 April 2009.
