by Dr. Ed Berry
My goal in this article is to save RFK, Jr., and other good people from getting entangled in the false science of imaginary “chemtrails.”
The people who promote “chemtrails” do not know about the physics of the atmosphere, the formation of clouds, and the science of contrails. No one wins when lawmakers make laws about something they do not understand.
Jet aircraft add water vapor to the air because water vapor is a product of combustion of carbon fuels.
At high altitudes, this added water vapor will become small water droplets when the added water vapor increases the humidity to 100 percent. If the air is cooler than -26C, these water droplets freeze into ice crystals.
It is easy to see the difference between a cloud with water droplets versus ice crystals. Water droplets cause a cloud to look clean and sharp. Ice crystals cause a cloud to look fuzzy. Water droplets evaporate quickly but ice crystals last much longer.
Other than the addition of water vapor by the jet aircraft, everything else in this picture is natural. Contrails modify the appearance of the sky and scatter the sunlight. They slightly cool the Earth in the day and heat the earth at night.
Beyond these small heating, cooling, and visual effects, contrails do not damage people or the environment.
There are people who claim the contrails we see are “chemtrails” caused by poisons the government uses to damage people and plants below the contrails.
First, you can’t damage people and plants with small particles from 30,000 feet. You can do it with a bomb but the particles in contrails fall as fast as cigarette smoke.
Before these small particles could get to the ground, they would be thousands of miles downwind and maybe in the Atlantic Ocean.
Second, if the government wants to poison us from the air, they can do it from 800 feet, cheaper and more precisely.
They say the government is putting poisons in jet fuel.
First, no government is going to add anything to jet fuel that may harm the engines. But let’s suppose the additions pass the safety test.
Second, poisons in jet fuel have nothing to do with “chemtrails” because a jet would distribute the poisons from takeoff to landing, especially on takeoff. The land most affected would be the area around major airports.
Does anyone have data that shows chemicals from departing aircraft has harmed the people, plants, and dogs in these areas?
I hope this article will save RFK, Jr., and other good people from getting entangled in the false science of imaginary “chemtrails.”
Thank you Ed. Most timely, common sense advice from but one of your many readers, albeit from a long way away, Down Under in the Land of Oz.
A ‘keeper’ to roll out on those occasions where Geo-engineering alarmists (not unlike those who demonize CO2) get on their high horse, pontificating about something they know precious little about, yet pretend they’re experts. Sheer ignorance of the nth degree.
I have often explained this on social media and found it to be an uphill battle. The math shows that through combustion, a gallon of Jet-A will produce about 1.2-1.3 gallons of water as vapor, which, as you have explained here, may or may not leave a visible trail. The atmosphere is anything but homogeneous, and a vapor trail can appear to stop or start when the aircraft flies into air with different conditions, or simply changing altitude, looking for the smoothest ride.
They also go on and on about aluminum. I point out that they have received thousands of times the exposure level from vaccines, given that aluminum salts are used as an adjuvant in most vaccines, and are directly injected into the body.
Then there is the dilution factor, in which several trillions of cubic feet of air pass under an aircraft at altitude, even the large amount of water from combustion would be under 100 PPM on the ground if and only if the air column was static, which we both know it never is.
Politicians are people with administrative overview of projects they know nothing about.
Thank you for this healthy does of Reason and Common Sense
Something else to consider – no one flying those planes is going to be spraying their friends and families with toxins. It’s ludicrous to think that they would also be spraying themselves – they live here too.
The more-educated “conspiracy theorists” are not debating the combustion process in jet engines. They are claiming that the suspicious chemtrails are being produced by aircraft outfitted with nozzles on the wings that are dispersing aerosols.
Dear Robert,
Indeed, this is where the chemtrail hoax began. These aircraft fitted with nozzles were special NOAA cloud-seeding aircraft. They had tanks of salt solution in the passenger area. They were used for cloud seeding experiments in the 1960-1980’s.
These aircraft did not fly at contrail level.
Ed
Jet engines cost around $25,000,000 so just why would any airline go along with allowing some sort of possibly toxic chemical be added to the aviation fuel, which is basically kerosine (paraffin). Common sense and critical thinking are lacking in the climate change eco loons. Thanks for your analysis of the obvious, to any one with a functioning brain. Most politicians seem to come from the brain dead spectrum, or the corrupt climate change gravy train.