Tim's Other Conservative Blog: chemtrails

British Bomber Contrails, WWII

There is a lot of talk on the Interweb about chemtrails. I have heard all sorts of theories over the last 10 years. Some folks have "proof" that the government is secretly doing this or that with chemicals. Now whether or not any of this is true is rather hard to say. We all have a natural distrust of the government but at the same time we must remember that it is generally run by incompetent twits who couldn't keep a secret if their lives depended on it. So I decided to look into this whole deal just a little bit.

It turns out that someone already did all my research for me and has thoroughly covered this topic at contrailscience.com.

But to simplify things for those who want the short story read on.
Contrails are caused by ALL aircraft at altitudes where the temperature is low and the moisture content adequate to form them. They are caused either by compressed air decompressing very rapidly or extremely hot exhaust cooling causing condensation about the exhaust particles. They can last for minutes or hrs, depending on wind conditions, air pressure, temperature, etc.

In the image below you can see an airliners forming contrails. Note that they form behind the aircraft because they take several fractions of a second to form. This is a clue, it is simply condensation. If it were a visible chemical being released from the aircraft the trail would form immediately behind the release point. If it were an invisible chemical being released then why wouldn't they simply release it at low pressure and at the same temperature as the outside air? After all, if they are really that clever, they simply couldn't be that stupid, could they? The separation is more clear in the second image.