How Concerned Should We Be About Chemtrails?

(American Thinker)—Concerns about “Chemtrails” and “Weather Modification” have heated up meaningfully. Considering that many people are worried, it’s worth examining whether these concerns may be overblown.

Can a person or government modify, control, or influence the weather? Is it really happening? If so, to what end?

Perhaps the best place to start is to consider logically if it is actually possible to modify the weather. Most AT readers do not believe in the anthropogenic “climate change” theory, as it is a largely disproven theory holding that alterations in Earth’s climate result from human activity.

Last year, I wrote an essay entitled Simple Facts Expose The Climate Change Hoax, I explained that in order to believe in it, one must believe in five palpably untrue things, all of which must be so for the theory to hold up. Weather Modification appears to me to be a derivative manifestation of “climate change.” The belief here is that bad actors are modifying the weather.

As a youngster, I remember hearing about “cloud seeding” to produce rainfall, though if one looks at the Defense Research Institute (DRI) website, this appears to be used in arctic conditions to increase “snowpack and streamflow.” We also know about crop dusting, which is a very localized pesticide/insecticide delivery for crop protection. Agent Orange was used as an herbicide during the Vietnam War, poisoning people with dioxin. But anything else that is going on seems less clear. I consider myself relatively well-informed, and it seldom, if ever, appears on my “radar screen.”

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