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These two sources have a very different point of view on chemtrails. The Royal Aeronautical Society is an informative website that has thousands of consecutive people who use their website to gather information, while BostonJeff60’s twitter page only has three thousand followers, and by looking at his twitter page you can tell he doesn’t have much logic.  The only way these sources are similar is discussing the idea of chemtrails. But they are both very different, because they both have a different point of view on whats actually happening.

On Royal Aeronautical Society’s article, they have a very descriptive debunking on what people think chemtrails are, versus what they actually are. This article follows the idea that ‘chemtrails’ are real just contrails, which are trails of condensation created by an airplane flying at a high altitude in a supersaturated atmosphere, where the condensed water particles turn to ice particles, which are left behind the aircraft, therefore leaving behind contrails.

While Royal Aeronautical Society is debunking chemtrails explaining why they are not real, BostonJeff60 shows us his finding, claiming it to be a chemtrial, which you can tell he obviously believes in when looking at his twitter page.

So overall, these sources are very different, and the only idea they share in common is that airplanes leave trails behind them, but they both have a different idea on what these trails are. The Royal Aeronautical Society’s article disagrees that chemtrails are real, while BostonJeff60 argues that the government is telling the truth.

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@cotupacs @elonmusk Woonsocket, Rhode Island USA. Tuesday 04/11/23. Chem-Trail?

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Woonsocket, Rhode Island USA. Tuesday 04/11/23. Chem-Trail? pic.twitter.com/m8uvLFXvNb
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@cotupacs @elonmusk Woonsocket, Rhode Island USA. Tuesday 04/11/23. Chem-Trail? https://t.co/m8uvLFXvNb

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National Geographic only has one view of this theory; it is completely made up. The article suggests that these trails that we see in the sky are actually called contrails; condensation trails. National Geographic does say that contrails could actually be something to worry about, because they contribute to climate change, which is ultimately a threat to everyone. So basically this article is telling us that chemtrails aren’t a real thing, but these trails that airplanes create could lead to problems. Some things that I found interesting about this article is that they included a personal story from when they were a kid, about how they saw an airplane in the sky and asked their dad about what the trails behind it were. Another surprising piece of information was finding out that more than 15% of people that they surveyed across the world believed in these chemtrails.

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My father's ears prick up and he dashes from the lounge into the garden, casting his eyes heavenward. I'm seven years old and I follow him, assuming I'm about to witness the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse dive bombing our house. Instead, I'm disappointed to see an airliner flying overhead, leaving a white trail across the sky.

My dad is something of an aviation enthusiast and this compulsive aircraft-spotting was a regular occurrence throughout my childhood. I asked my father what these white lines that hung in the air long after the plane had vanished from sight were, and he told me they were contrails: condensation trails. They're formed when humid jet exhaust condenses into ice crystals in the cold, dry, high-altitude air. This was back in 1987. I was satisfied with that explanation then, and I am now.

Not everybody is so easily placated, though, and over the past couple of decades - ever since the US Air Force published a paper in 1996 about the hypothetical harnessing of weather for military objectives - 'truthers' in their thousands have taken to YouTube, forums, talk radio and hundreds of websites to share 'evidence' for a shadowy global aviation conspiracy.
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Some people believe that, since the mid-1990s, the government (usually the US government, colluding with others around the world) has been using aircraft to secretly spray the globe with chemical agents, with a range of supposed purposes including weather modification; mind control; chemical/biological weapons testing; stock price manipulation by damaging crops; and even causing illnesses for massive pharmaceutical companies to exploit.

It's often claimed that these 'chemtrails' are distinguished from normal contrails because they remain in the sky for longer than they did prior to the mid-90s, and dissipate into cirrus clouds.

It's a load of codswallop, but in this age of 'fake news', the conspiracy theory seems to have moved beyond American far-right circles and gone mainstream. Back in 2011, a survey of the US, Canada, and UK showed that an incredible 16.6% of respondents believed in chemtrails. More recent data exists for our American cousins: a 2016 a poll found that 30-40% of the US population subscribed to the theory.

With government agencies swamped by complaints, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) re-released the Hazardous Waste Report in 2015 in conjunction with NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to reassure the public.

Following this, in an August 2016 peer-reviewed study by the Carnegie Institution for Science, 76 out of 77 leading atmospheric scientists said they could find no evidence whatsoever to support the theory of a government chemtrail programme.
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This clearly did little to convince hardcore believers; in 2017, solar geo-engineers at Harvard reported to VICE News they were receiving death threats and hate mail accusing them of being in on the conspiracy.

So, with such scientific proof to the contrary, why do these theories persist? If the government refutes them and scientists disprove them, then why are some people so adamant we're being lied to?

No amount of evidence will dissuade a die-hard conspiracy theorist, because any evidence to the contrary is inevitably dismissed as part of a massive cover up. Hey, maybe my dad is part of it as well.

So, contrails are nothing to worry about, right?

While the EPA report concludes, 'contrails pose no direct threat to public health,' it does add: 'Contrail cloudiness might contribute to climate change. Climate change may impact on public health and environmental protection.'

Have you seen a picture of a plane cabin with the seats replaced with chemical tanks?

What you've seen is an image of a plane filled with water tanks. These flight test ballast barrels are there to simulate passenger weight, and are interconnected so the water can be pumped to different parts of the cabin allowing engineers to assess the planes' performance under a variety of load conditions and different centres of gravity.
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My father's ears prick up and he dashes from the lounge into the garden, casting his eyes heavenward. I'm seven years old and I follow him, assuming I'm about to witness the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse dive bombing our house. Instead, I'm disappointed to see an airliner flying overhead, leaving a white trail across the sky.

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The main idea on BBC’s article about chemtrails is what the real truth being the conspiracy theory is. They look at just one perspective, which is chemtrails being fake. In this article, BBC is mostly debunking and criticizing this conspiracy theory. They tell us how “The idea that governments or shadowy forces are routinely spraying the planet with chemicals from scheduled passenger flights took hold in the 1990s.” This is important because it gives us some background information on how and when this theory started. Another useful piece of information that BBC includes in this article is explaining what these trails behind the airplanes actually are. The information I found most useful/interesting article is how people believing in chemtrails have discussions on social media platforms, such as Facebook and telegram. The craziest piece of information, though, was how people put bowls of white vinegar outside, saying it clears the “chemtrailed” sky.

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The word "chemtrails" has trended on sunny mornings this summer - but what's the truth behind the conspiracy theory?

Look up at a clear blue sky and you might see puffy white trails behind aeroplanes.

They are made up mostly of water and are called contrails or vapour trails, but a growing number of people falsely believe they are evidence of something sinister going on.

Some think malign forces are spraying the population with dangerous chemicals - so-called chemtrails - for purposes that are neither entirely clear nor consistent.

A surge in conspiratorial thinking following the Covid pandemic along with the summer travel season and clear skies mean the once obscure chemtrails theory is now being promoted by major influencers.

What are contrails?

Contrails are formed when water vapour and fine soot particulates from burning jet fuel freeze into ice crystals. In low air humidity, the crystals just dissipate. In higher humidity, they persist, and end up creating visible vapour trails over large areas of sky.

Those humidity differences explain why some aircraft are seen producing vapour trails while others do not.

High humidity means that vapour trails can last for long periods and become thin layers of cirrus clouds, Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern told the BBC. Cirrus clouds are short, detached and hair-like and are found at high altitudes. It is unlikely that any of these purported chemicals in the clouds would even reach ground level because they are at such high altitudes, he said.

One persistent belief among followers of the theory is that early morning chemtrails encourage greater cloud cover later in the day - but this can be explained by the natural process of convection. This is the result of the sun warming the ground, causing warm air to rise and condense into clouds later in the day, the Met Office says.

The idea that governments or shadowy forces are routinely spraying the planet with chemicals from scheduled passenger flights took hold in the 1990s.

Initially, believers claimed sprays containing a toxic metal, barium, were being used to either pacify or reduce populations.

But the idea evolved along the way, meaning today there are several strands of the chemtrail theory.

In recent years, followers have expanded their accusations, claiming the contrails are being used to spread Covid-19, distribute vaccines, initiate "mind control", reduce the population or vaguely promote a "new world order".

False allegations have trended so frequently this year that fact-checking charity Full Fact has posted 10 debunks since April.

Chemtrail influencers are highly active on platforms such as Facebook and Telegram, where they discuss the day's alleged "spraying" and track aircraft. Some suggest putting a bowl of white vinegar outside, saying that this clears "chemtrailed" skies.

Chemtrail social media groups also often contain anti-vaccine posts and promote climate change denialism, feeding off an increase in conspiracy thinking during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the rise of the QAnon conspiracy theory during the Trump presidency.

The phenomenon is international, with followers across UK, Europe, Australia and the Americas - in fact, anywhere under which commercial or military aircraft fly. And it is backed by a few celebrities and popular social media influencers.

What's the truth?

Like many persistent conspiracies, the chemtrails idea comes with a kernel of truth.

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.

Chemtrails conspiracy theorists point to such secret experiments to bolster their cause. But their claims blow the historical record out of all proportion, as they claim we are constantly - and very visibly - being deliberately sprayed with tonnes of dangerous chemicals, for an ever-shifting variety of reasons.

Like other conspiracy theorists, chemtrail enthusiasts also latch on to news events to push their agenda, for instance in messages like this posted during the recent UK heatwave:

There is no evidence the claim in the tweet is true, nor does it explain the record temperatures across Europe at the same time.

The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) told the BBC it is aware of these chemtrail theories with "no evidential basis".

"The distraction of these false theories detracts from what really matters and from areas that we believe should be further studied," it added.

There is concern that high altitude jets contribute to long-term climate change - not through any deliberate release of secret chemicals, but instead through contrails in a mechanism known as "radiative forcing".

BALPA told the BBC it is campaigning for a comprehensive research trial into the effect aviation has on pollution, not CO2, as well as the impact contrails are having on a changing climate.

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Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory?

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The word "chemtrails" has trended on sunny mornings this summer - but what's the truth behind the conspiracy theory? Look up at a clear blue sky and you might see puffy white trails behind aeroplanes. They are made up mostly of water and are called contrails or vapour trails, but a growing number of people falsely believe they are evidence of something sinister going on.

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Here we have a twitter post from a less reputable person, definitely believing in chemtrails. This was written by someone on twitter with a pseudonym, making them very suspicious. Throughout their twitter page, we can see why they aren’t reputable. This is because their whole page is based around conspiracy theory’s. Ranging from covid being a hoax, to aliens on earth, their page is full of made up, stupid information. His page also includes offensive things about the government and other things, like big, important companies.

On this specific post, they are definitely trying to convey the message that chemtrails are real. To do this, they post a picture of two different airplanes- obviously flying at different altitudes- where one has a trail behind it, and the other does not. They way they give us this message isn’t really reputable, because all it is is just a picture, without much context. The person writes this, without knowing much about what is actually happening. All they see is two airplanes that look different while flying next to each other. Other sources couldn’t validate this post, because all they have is a picture. Even if they did have more to say, im sure there are lots of websites that could explain why they are wrong. This person jumps to conclusions, blaming in on the government, and starts doubting one of the smartest people in the world in his post. They have no other perspective on this conspiracy theory, and only say what they believe is correct. This post was written for people who believe this conspiracy theory. But more specificity, it was targeting Elon Musk, trying to prove him wrong.

Ultimately, I would not trust this source because the only information the can provide is a picture, without having background information on what is actually happening. Another reason I would not trust this source is because it is written by a random person, with a fake name, on a social media page with lots of other dumb ideas.

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— Concerned Citizen (@cotupacs) April 14, 2023

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This website comes from a very well known university; Harvard. This website was one of the top results when I was researching chemtrails, and since it was a university that I knew about, I decided it was a good source of information form me. When looking closer at this website, I noticed that all of the information that I was reading was written by Harvard students with PhDs, meaning the writers of this source were probably very smart and reputable.

The David Keith Research group conveys the message of being against the theory of the government creating chemtrails with airplanes to control the weather. This message makes a lot of sense, especially when they are able to back it up with lots of information. I can validate their information when looking at the information of other reputable sources, like BBC and CNN.

This article was mainly written to explain how people have misconceptions with what they see in the sky, and what they are actually seeing. They also include data from their own research, including study’s from their solar geoengineering research, along with data from outdoor experiments they conducted. This information can serve anyone who is interested in learning about chemtrails, and if they want to find out if they are real or not.

Ultimately I would trust this websites information as a source because it comes from a research group in a very well known university, written by very smart people.

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We receive many emails and letters asking me about chemtrails. Many express deep concern, some are abusive and threatening. This page gives our views on the topic. Background Chemtrails refers to the theory that governments or other parties are engaged in a secret program to add toxic chemicals to…