Over the years, we’ve seen a huge increase in the normalization of conspiracy theories. I suspect that’s largely due to the internet making us all more connected, so it’s easier to find more people out there with similar beliefs.
While nothing new, there’s one particularly bizarre conspiracy theory when it comes to aviation. What’s so incredibly stupid is that we’re now seeing politicians pass laws based on something that doesn’t actually happen.
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The basics of the chemtrail conspiracy theory
It’s totally normal for aircraft to leave behind contrails as they fly through the sky. These are the white lines you’ll observe behind aircraft, as they fly at high altitudes.
The explanation for these is very simple, and the scientific community is in complete agreement — they’re condensation trails, which form when hot exhaust from jets meets cold, humid air, at high altitudes. This happens all over the world, and it has been the case for decades.
However, over time, there has been an increasingly common conspiracy theory, suggesting that the government or another secretive organization is using commercial and military aircraft to release chemicals into the atmosphere, which are used for everything ranging from weather modification to mind control.
What’s the basis for this? Well, I don’t know, you guys tell me. I guess there are a bunch of “whistleblowers.” But it’s never actually someone reputable who says “yep, I was involved in this, and it’s true.” Instead, it’s like the below video, where “in 2014, my cousin sent me information given to him by a friend who is an Air Force pilot, who flies chemtrail flights.” Right…
Despite zero scientific or logical basis for this, we’ve seen many people in positions of power get behind this. For example, in August 2024, (now) Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, stated that “we are going to stop this crime,” referring to chemtrails.
These “chemtrails” can be found all over the world, so I guess all governments are in on it. Heck, even in a given country, it seems like people on both sides of the aisle choose to keep this quiet. If only we could always have such national and global cooperation, eh?
Louisiana House passes bill banning chemtrails
It’s a really sad state of affairs when governments start passing bills based on conspiracy theories, but I guess nothing really surprises me anymore. In recent times, we’ve seen several states attempt to take action to ban chemtrails.
Along those lines, by a vote of 58 to 32, the Louisiana House of Representatives has just passed a bill that bans chemtrails. The measure directs the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to record reported chemtrail sightings, and pass those complaints on to the Louisiana Air National Guard.
The bill’s language “prohibits the introduction of substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of modifying weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight.” There are no penalties for violations, but the idea is that reports will lead to further investigation and documentation.
In other words, this bill essentially creates a framework for people to report to the government when they see airplanes in the sky, and for that to be investigated. One of the politicians behind this bill, Kimberly Landry Coates, was asked what she believes can be found in these chemtrails, and her answer was “there’s some long words that I can’t pronounce.”
Bottom line
There are things that reasonable people can disagree on… and I’d argue that the reality of contrails isn’t among those. The fact that we’re now seeing state governments try to pass laws based on chemtrail conspiracy theories is just sad. If the governor of Louisiana signs this isn’t law, citizens will soon be able to report to the government that they see planes in the sky.
Chemtrails are real?
Boys can be girls?
The party choices left to us are abysmal. RIP America.
Hmm.. the chemtrail deniers just happen to be the same people who are quadruple vaxxed and favored Cov1d lockdowns.
Maybe you all should stop relying on news sources that constantly lie and disclose half truths.
What's next - OMAAT gonna mock those who dont care for climate change?
Hey John, you 100 per cent don't know if people who don't fall for this chemtrail BS are "quadruple vaxxed". You're absolutely making that up. Here's the thing, there is zero proof of chemtrails.
@John L
Have you found any birds with cameras in them yet?
We see a lot of policies related to aviation that do not make much sense or do not address the problem. The Netherlands limiting the number of flights because of their green efforts, for example. More people will just fly through elsewhere to get to their destination....This is another one that is not thought completely.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c5ygydeqq08o
Spraying the atmosphere with reflective particles, also known as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), is a proposed geoengineering technique to address climate change by reflecting sunlight back into space and cooling the planet.
Conspiracy theorists say that the government is "dumbing people down" by using chemtrails. Why would they need to spend the money doing such a thing when these people are clearly stupid already!
When one has no religious framework for belief, they and others create a belief, and become easily manipulated by societies manipulators engineering social disorder through mystical theories and pseudo science.
It’s along the same line pot is good because it’s natural. Boiling water in a geyser is also natural, but according to “their science” it’s only boiling and scalding if you are weak and think it’s hot because you have been engineered to think this...
When one has no religious framework for belief, they and others create a belief, and become easily manipulated by societies manipulators engineering social disorder through mystical theories and pseudo science.
It’s along the same line pot is good because it’s natural. Boiling water in a geyser is also natural, but according to “their science” it’s only boiling and scalding if you are weak and think it’s hot because you have been engineered to think this way.
This is what happens when you remove Santa from common thought. The dumb multiply, and start believing in gremlins disguising themselves as elves cause it’s logical to think Santa can only do his job if he had plenty of helpers in toy land at the North Pole, rightfully so.
This is what happens when you remove Santa from common thought. The dumb multiply, and start believing THE gremlins disguising themselves as elves cause it’s logical to think Santa can only do his job if he had plenty of helpers in toy land at the North Pole, rightfully
As so many have said: "I don't care if it is not true, I want to believe it."
@KlimaBXsst
>When one has no religious framework for belief, they and others create a belief
I'd put money down that the people that believe this chemtrail nonsense are ostensibly devout Christians, not Atheists or Agnostics, and are people with little to no education (whether they didn't receive it or they just didn't pay attention and now are mad about things that were taught in elementary and middle school). They swallow this crap hook, line,...
@KlimaBXsst
>When one has no religious framework for belief, they and others create a belief
I'd put money down that the people that believe this chemtrail nonsense are ostensibly devout Christians, not Atheists or Agnostics, and are people with little to no education (whether they didn't receive it or they just didn't pay attention and now are mad about things that were taught in elementary and middle school). They swallow this crap hook, line, and sinker because they wholeheartedly believe they're receiving "forbidden knowledge" from "insiders" despite it being publicly posted on the internet with 2 million views.
Now the AvGeeks get to understand what it feels like to be in medicine with our current heads of HHS, the FDA, and the surgeon general.
You mean the leadership that released guidance (based on AI-referenced non-existent research) that parents should stop giving prescribed asthma medicine to their kids?
Exactly those people who don't even know that ChatGPT makes up fake references.
You give it your desired conclusion . . .
in what seems like a prior life I was a newsman covering the Louisiana Legislature. Trust me, this is about the CIA and Deep State controlling our brain. I was there: proposal to buy 50 Gondolas for tourists at Bayou Teche. "You don't need you no 50 Gondolas. You get you a Mama Gondola and a Papa Gondola, couple years go by ..."
You mean it's not the Freemasons controlling the world? Squatch is going to be broken up over this.
Makes sense if you know the Unofficial State Motto of Louisiana, used when various Ratings are announced: Thank God ... for Mississippi!
People also believe in things like "trickle-down economics" and "small government".
What commercial airline would risk multi-million dollar aircraft by burning jet fuel laced with added chemicals? Deviations from the specified fuel would never be allowed. GE, Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney, and other engine manufacturers never designed nor tested their engines with such additives. Liabilities would be enormous. Military aircraft with high performance engines would be off limits too. Total conspiracy theory.
Same people who believe that vaccines hurt instead of benefit people and that the orange buffoon in power is actually competent and hires competent people.
Not to be outdone, Florida is heading in the same direction.
While there are lots of crazy rumors in the current era, not all are truly false. See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3194826/ which links to Mahlen SD. Serratia infections: from military experiments to current practice. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2011 Oct;24(4):755-91. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00017-11. PMID: 21976608; PMCID: PMC3194826 nd file:///Users/cyberdocm1/Downloads/Chemtrails_%20Deadly%20Skies%20or%20Dangerous%20Misinformation_.pdf which leads to a downloadable PDF.
While there are lots of crazy rumors in the current era, not all are truly false. See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3194826/ which links to Mahlen SD. Serratia infections: from military experiments to current practice. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2011 Oct;24(4):755-91. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00017-11. PMID: 21976608; PMCID: PMC3194826 nd file:///Users/cyberdocm1/Downloads/Chemtrails_%20Deadly%20Skies%20or%20Dangerous%20Misinformation_.pdf which leads to a downloadable PDF.
The bill that’s been introduced isn’t for ‘chemtrails’. It’s to ban cloud seeding with chemicals, which is absolutely a thing.
Kudos to you for actually doing your homework to sift fact from BS. Which is more than can be said for this entire article and 98% of respondents.
You can stand on the ground and look up at airplanes flying 30,000 feet or higher and you can tell whether they are at the same altitude? Are you wearing an aluminum hat while you are doing this?
A plane can be 500 feet below tropopause and not create contrails. Another plane can be 500 feet above tropopause and create contrails. It would be a keen eye that discerns 1000 feet in altitude difference.
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All is forgiven!!
As the great George Carlin said, "Think about how dumb the average person is, and then realize that half of them are dumber than that."
He is wrong! More than half of this country's citizens are dumber than an average person.
Quite simple, Liberals and the left will never gain power again. If they keep this snobbish mocking and educated elitism from their metropolitan citadels, looking down on the ordinary blue collar man.
It’s not being snobbish when genuinely stupid people are passing laws about on things they know nothing about. If they were serious about reducing the amount of chemicals in the enviornment, perhaps they should start with all the chemical plants along Cancer Alley.
To think I scoffed at the concept behind Idiocracy. The least believable part of that movie today is that the people still actually sought out the most intelligent person to lead them. Truth is, the mob wants to be ruled by idiots just like them!
I’ve seen perfectly blue skies become hazy after some planes fly over. The contrail starts small and over time become 20-30 times bigger. Ive seen 2 planes at what appear to be same altitude, one no trails, the other, massive amounts. I don’t remember seeing that when I was a kid. I’m not saying I believe in them nor disbelieve in them. If they were doing something nefarious, do you think they’d admit it?
Ben-...
I’ve seen perfectly blue skies become hazy after some planes fly over. The contrail starts small and over time become 20-30 times bigger. Ive seen 2 planes at what appear to be same altitude, one no trails, the other, massive amounts. I don’t remember seeing that when I was a kid. I’m not saying I believe in them nor disbelieve in them. If they were doing something nefarious, do you think they’d admit it?
Ben- You did believe Biden was coherent in 2020 when you voted for him. Psst- he wasn’t. That was mocked a conspiracy. Too many people still believe the media. Wuhan lab leak? That was mocked a conspiracy. Covid vax causing injuries- mocked. Russian collusion hoax- mocked. Hunter Biden laptop- mocked. Doubting Fauchi- mocked (He was the science). The Left has been wrong, A LOT, lately.
You might want to watch documentaries about aerial combat in WWII and see if your opinion changes. American, British, Soviet, German, Japanese aircraft all produced contrails above tropopause.
Exactly, and these contrails were made gas powered piston engines. Have read where the bomber formations would slight decrease their altitude if possible to avoid leaving contrails, as the formations were much easier to spot from a longer distance if they were leaving long contrails.
Brian, to keep "chemtrails" a secret would require the silent complicity of hundreds of thousands of people in several different industries spread all over the world. The more participants required to make a conspiracy work, the leas likely it is to be true. This one is really extraordinarily unlikely to be true. You're more likely to win the Powerball jackpot three weeks in a row.
Don't forget the Deep State-controlled Jewish space lasers that attacked friendly Blue States instead of enemy Red States just to disguise what's really going on.
Understood. I’ve heard that there is material sprayed into the atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays to fight climate change. And I don’t believe all contrails are chemtrails. I’m just not sold either way and feel it should still be open to debate.
https://www.icao.int/Meetings/EnvironmentalColloquium/Documents/2010-Colloquium/6_Schumann_Wmo.pdf
https://www.dlr.de/en/images/2021/1/climate-optimised-flight-routes
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02031-8
Why doesn't the president do something about this? Unless, he's part of it. Commander Thor from the Ice Wall WAS right!
"Chemtrails" reminds me of the 70s craze about alligators living in the sewer.
I knew a couple of kids whose fathers knew guys who worked for the city and one of their co-workers, who worked in the sewer department, one day was down in the sewer and got chased by a full-grown alligator.
No matter how much I tried, I could never meet "the guys" and none of the alligators ever saw the light of day.
Americans spreading their claptrap around the world along with MAGA, Scientology, Mormons, Christian Scientists and Jehovah’s Witness. As soon as any idiotic belief pops up such as this, guess where it started ?
Jerusalem?
lol. However you get my point
Blessed are the cheese makers
And Paganism? The Protestants? Once again your anti-American obsession puts you on display as the truly ignorant one.
OMAAT is baiting again.
It's very easy to see who gets it just from their responses on other topics here.
I think 90% of the ones claiming to believe in chemtrails are just trolling. It's the same with flat-earthers. Sure, there will be a handful, but the majority is just having fun, or found a way to monetize.
With these things, it's just a matter of "don't feed the troll". Something you now did with this article. And I did with this comment ;)
"don't feed the troll"
Great advice - Lucky put the troll Timmy Dunn on a diet.
Now if he'd just do the same to Arps, this would be a much pleasanter place.
This is so silly. I know this because my computer chip implant that i got during my Covid vaccination told me the actual truth is that these are part of the Jewish space lazers that leave behind trails when they control those aircrafts. There, now you know.
It’s the same thing as flat earthers.
Someone finds out how stupid someone is so they can feed even more bs. Ug.
I just wish more people would realize the conflict to the east of Europe is just like chem trails or flat earth.
Now THAT’S a conspiracy theory!
I really think there is a lot of misunderstandings. These laws banning “chemtrails” are banning actions that are actually taking place, like cloud seeding.
The chemtrail thing is beyond stupid, but the explanation that you give for contrail formation isn't right.
The humidity comes from the jet exhaust, not the upper atmosphere. Burning fuel produces CO2 and H2O. The water in the hot jet exhaust is clear water vaper. But as the exhaust cools in the cold surrounding air, the water condenses out as visible droplets.
I love how there are plenty of wars and countries that hate each other, but they somehow put all of that aside to make these diabolical plans...
The US South genuinely seems like one of the most backwards places on earth to an outsider. No offence to anyone from there, not painting every individual like that, but it’s insane the elected representatives produced from there.
In the US, pick your poison
Northeast: rude
Midwest: boring
South (excl. Florida): backward
South (Florida): crazy
Central: huh?
West: hipster
Inb4 a NE-defending dumbass comes at me with “we’re just direct and no-nonsense!”
That’s literally the definition of tactless
Inb4 “others are just superficially polite!”
Literally every interaction with a stranger is superficial. I’m not sharing deep secrets with the grocery cashier. But the NE often can’t manage to even be superficially polite.
As a Floridian who has literally lived in all 4 corners of this country you are 100% correct. Sadly,
That's what happens when your public education systems rank at the bottom. Kids growing up in state more concerned about posting religous documents in their schools more than educational outcomes don't stand a chance. When kids grow up in Staes more concerned about what bathroom you use than whether or not you can read, write and solve math equations they don't stand a chance. When schools are teaching kids that the Civil War was about...
That's what happens when your public education systems rank at the bottom. Kids growing up in state more concerned about posting religous documents in their schools more than educational outcomes don't stand a chance. When kids grow up in Staes more concerned about what bathroom you use than whether or not you can read, write and solve math equations they don't stand a chance. When schools are teaching kids that the Civil War was about "states rights" and not about the state's right to enslave human people the kids don't stand a chance.
This is how dictators and autocrats thrive.
Bingo!!!!
The "chemtrail" thing is ridiculous. It's a fairy tale distributed by the likes of Alex Jones. Sit behind the wing of any jetliner and you'll see the condensation being formed. Now, if you want to question whether having so many contrails can affect the climate, the answer to that is: yes, a little. Researchers actually studied that in the 2 days after 9/11/2002 when the skies about the USA were closed (I remeber this so...
The "chemtrail" thing is ridiculous. It's a fairy tale distributed by the likes of Alex Jones. Sit behind the wing of any jetliner and you'll see the condensation being formed. Now, if you want to question whether having so many contrails can affect the climate, the answer to that is: yes, a little. Researchers actually studied that in the 2 days after 9/11/2002 when the skies about the USA were closed (I remeber this so well....).
But, I digress; I also cannot believe that people buy into this nonsense.
correction: you meant to say 9/11/2001
"Sit behind the wing of any jetliner..."
The people who believe in "chemtrails" are so backward that it's unlikely they would ever get on an airplane in the first place; probably can't fathom how the plane can get off the ground and stay aloft.
What's more distressing is that the people who are bewitched, baffled, and befuddled by contrails (CONdensation TRAILS) are walking through life so blindly that they never observe the phenomenon, albeit on...
"Sit behind the wing of any jetliner..."
The people who believe in "chemtrails" are so backward that it's unlikely they would ever get on an airplane in the first place; probably can't fathom how the plane can get off the ground and stay aloft.
What's more distressing is that the people who are bewitched, baffled, and befuddled by contrails (CONdensation TRAILS) are walking through life so blindly that they never observe the phenomenon, albeit on a much smaller scale, when they're behind the wheel stuck in traffic on a cold day and all the cars around them are making micro contrails. Never an inkling but I suppose that's the least of their problems in the big bad confusing world.
People believe that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, that seed oils cause cancer and that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's invasion of it. The Chemtrails conspiracy is small potatoes compared to this.
Whether seed oils cause cancer isn’t known
Yes, it is: They don’t. Conversely, excessive use of beef tallow will almost certainly result in heart disease.
Lol retard. It’s not possible to prove something doesn’t cause cancer (based on how science works, you never “accept” the null hypothesis).
Given your stupidity the world could be better off if you died of cancer though
It is entirely misleading to say something isn't known when the reality is the subject has been studied and there is no credible evidence to support it.
Chemtrails made me gay. Luckily Tennessee banned them last year. Unfortunately, my condition appears irreversible and I remain gay AF.
Happy Pride!
Dude it’s pretty embarrassing for you to be posting this shit especially if you’re still a HS teacher.
Sorry Tiny, I’m retired and loving life. Continue your impotent raging and seething.
You’re retired? Okay then carry on. I hope you didn’t sexually assault any of your students.
Three words: Mary. Kay. Letourneau.
And your post equaling gay with pedophile is one of the reasons why we have Pride. It strengthens us and ticks off people like you. Makes me want to go out and have sex with a drag queen in a men's toilet. Again.
I feel like your username preludes you from criticising people as embarrassing.
What's insane is that someone actually had to approach a legislator to draft this bill. Then it actually went to a committee where they discussed it, and took public comments, then decided it had enough merit to go the the floor. Then a majority of elected officials voted "yes" on it. Also, Louisiana has actual problems. Too bad those aren't being solved.
I get that most chemtrail conspiracy theorists support the majority party in Louisiana,...
What's insane is that someone actually had to approach a legislator to draft this bill. Then it actually went to a committee where they discussed it, and took public comments, then decided it had enough merit to go the the floor. Then a majority of elected officials voted "yes" on it. Also, Louisiana has actual problems. Too bad those aren't being solved.
I get that most chemtrail conspiracy theorists support the majority party in Louisiana, but if the legislators had just ignored this, it's not like all of these people would have shifted parties and they would have lost seats. It's all just so so dumb.
With all due respect, the Louisiana legislatures actions support my decision to go south of the Mason - Dixon line as little as possible. Those people scare me as a gay man!!!
I meant in my previous message to say, NOT go south of the Mason - Dixon line. Sorry.
Why would a state legislature bother solving hard problems that might have unpopular short-term repercussions when they can just performatively ban things that don't actually exist and get all the positive press but none of the fallout?
Seems like a lot of "conspiracies" become facts. COVID, including the jab, Biden's cognitive state, BLM, etc. Not saying I believe this but if turned out to be true wouldn't be shocked.
The only one of those “topics” that could be considered true is Biden, and I mean yeah, anybody being honest knew he was going senile, even if some tried to deny it.
No idea what “BLM” even means in the context of conspiracies…
@AceQuik- The liberals were calling the Wuhan lab leak a conspiracy. People saying the vaccine didn’t prevent the virus were right. People who said the vaccine caused injuries were right. (It gave me a permanent heart arrhythmia confirmed by my cardiologist.) BLM founders raked in millions and moved into rich WHITE neighborhoods. The Russia interference hoax. The Hunter Biden laptop disinformation campaign right before the election. I could go on and on.
Eh where to start.
We still don’t know the origin of COVID-19 with anything approaching certainty, and more research supports a natural origin than lab-based (although obviously all possibilities should br left open).
As for vaccines, i’m not sure who would have told you the vaccine would prevent all infections (not how a virus vaccination works in general), or that it would cause zero ill-effects (all vaccines do, but in very minimal levels of people,...
Eh where to start.
We still don’t know the origin of COVID-19 with anything approaching certainty, and more research supports a natural origin than lab-based (although obviously all possibilities should br left open).
As for vaccines, i’m not sure who would have told you the vaccine would prevent all infections (not how a virus vaccination works in general), or that it would cause zero ill-effects (all vaccines do, but in very minimal levels of people, as with the covid-19 vaccine).
As for BLM, that doesn’t even sound like a conspiracy. That’s just people being deceitful.
I think you start with the truth that billions of people believe in a god of some kind for whose existence they have no evidence. Understanding everything else is much easier from there.
This, too. To me, believing in god in the 21st century is the ultimate marker of low intelligence.
Then tell me you of high intelligence, what is the purpose of life...were we just created "accidentally" to live and just die?
@AI
Yes.
@AI: No, to live and f**k and only then to die.
Idiocracy 2025. SMH.
Trump believes Biden was killed years ago and all we've seen since then are robots. Really.
This man has the nuclear codes.
And yet we're still safer with "the football" than we were 6 months ago with the autopen holding it,
Hahahaha…seems like a LA politician
@stogieguy7
Dude. Biden governed normally. There is 0 evidence that he was senile, despite all the RWNJ claims to the contrary. The dude was just old, not mentally vacant. And even IF, IF he was mentally gone, something I reiterate there was never proof of, that means his selected cabinet, VP, and staffers were competent enough to give us a speedy economic recovery from COVID, full employment, the best job growth and industrial job...
@stogieguy7
Dude. Biden governed normally. There is 0 evidence that he was senile, despite all the RWNJ claims to the contrary. The dude was just old, not mentally vacant. And even IF, IF he was mentally gone, something I reiterate there was never proof of, that means his selected cabinet, VP, and staffers were competent enough to give us a speedy economic recovery from COVID, full employment, the best job growth and industrial job growth in the past 40 years, and the best stock market performance EVER. That's hardly an indictment of the man, no matter how you try to spin it.
Meanwhile the current POTUS is mentally vacant, historically and economically illiterate, incapable of grade-school level reading comprehension, and the type to go on insane social media rants in the middle of the night. You're a fool for thinking THAT should have ever been given the nuclear codes.
I've long since given up on understanding what others believe or don't believe.
Many of your readers don't believe I'm equity partner at a top law firm.
lmao dude you cannot equate chemtrail conspiracy nonsense with not believing random internet guy. If anything actually believing things random internet people say is closer to believing in the chemtrail nonsense than what you're suggesting
I gave you benefit of doubt for practicing law.
After several months of observing your responses and call you out for being absent on actual legal issues. I can easily conclude not only your not in legal, you know absolutely nothing about legal except there is a firm called Skadden.
@Eskimo no surprise your flawed thought process and decision criteria led you to a flawed conclusion
When you’re stupid, you’re too stupid to recognize it, so you go about your world with your misguided views that you don’t even know are misguided
Sigh