Ok, so bear with me, this could take a while to read.
This came about due a friend mentioning chemtrails and the conspiracies surrounding them. I just had to look into them for myself.
First off, the layman’s explanation of contrails:
They are nothing more than the vapor trail of condensation left behind a jet engine when atmospheric conditions are right.
There is a question that there is an increase in number and duration: it’s quickly explained by the massive increase in air travel/air traffic since we were kids which has caused a large increase in the number of contrails at any given time. Any of the photos posted could simply be the sky around a moderate sized airport on a cool fall day.
Additionally, that rise in air traffic has occurred with the advancement of higher flying craft- as more aircraft fly, there is the need to use more of the sky for traffic and newer jets are designed to fly higher- the available flight ceiling has risen from around 20,000-25,000 feet to 37,000-44,000 now. That’s an impossible height not too many years ago but it sure helps for cross country non-stop and international non-stop flights. It’s also going to alter the contrail behavior due to the decrease in atmospheric pressure at that altitude.
Additionally, longer lasting contrails could also simply be the result of changing atmospheric conditions due to global climate change. Contrary to some opinions, the vast majority of climate scientists agree that global climate change is occurring and the atmospheric changes could be altering how contrails occur and how long they last. But that’s an area for further study.
That’s the basics. The argument over chemtrails vs. contrails comes down to whether you believe those trails are created by naturally occurring phenomena from advances in flight technology allowing us to fly higher, faster and further than ever before vs. a worldwide conspiracy of chemical contamination carried out by thousands of pilots, scientists, airports, militaries and others that is so well controlled that no one has leaked any solid evidence of it’s existence. In the words of Carl Sagan “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” and the evidence for chemtrails is seriously lacking at this time.
As a comparison, it’s long been suspected that the wealthy of the world control damn near everything and that their ‘purpose’ is to increase and protect their wealth at all costs- typically by hiding their wealth in offshore accounts to avoid all forms of taxation.
Two large investigative reports were released that documented that very reality- a world-wide conspiracy of the top 5% to suck up all the wealth and assets of the planet and the only real fall out was … well… nothing really. I mean the top 5% control all the media, the courts, everything. So the information is there and there’s been no systemic changes except more wealth has flowed to the top. I mean the top 1% increased their wealth during the pandemic by about $3.9 trillion dollars while everyone else lost about $3.7 trillion.. Weird how those numbers almost align.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/oxfam-report-as-covid-ravaged-the-world-billionaires-got-richer-by-3-9-trillion-2357512
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/viral-inequality-billionaires-gained-3-9tn-workers-lost-3-7tn-in-2020-43674
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers
https://gijn.org/stories/new-money-laundering-trends-journalists-watch-out/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=panama+papers&t=ffab&atb=v39-1&ia=web
Chemtrail stuff:
https://www.aeroclass.org/service-ceiling/
https://simpleflying.com/cruising-altitude-changes-guide/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-are-chemtrails-made-of/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-017-0014-3
https://carnegiescience.edu/news/%E2%80%9Cchemtrails%E2%80%9D-not-real-say-leading-atmospheric-science-experts
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-officially-debunks-chemtrails-conspiracy-live-180960139/