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Yes, geoengineering and stratospheric aerosol injection do exist but in the real world, they’re nothing like the chemtrails narrative. I recently found an interesting website with a name similar to the one that spreads the chemtrails conspiracy theory, geoengineeringmonitor.org. Unlike the one with that watches instead of monitors, this one contains real information backed up by real data on geoengineering world wide. It has an interactive map that has instances of it since the year 2000 throughout the globe. It was given to me as a link showing proof of chemtrails by a conspiracy theorist. He should have examined his…
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The algorithms that drive social media are problematic. They are the product of the business model of the tech corporations that run the social media platforms. The business model of social media is the same as other corporate media, it is to grab the user’s attention as much as possible and keep them on the platform as long as possible to generate revenue through the ads displayed to users. To do so they both gather data on users and manipulate content based on that data. Those algorithms can and have been manipulated to favor certain content over other. This as…
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One afternoon when I was still vending at the gorge bridge, in one of those idle moments when there were no customers and vendors chatted with each other, the subject of chemtrails came up and I casually remarked that they didn’t exist. One of the vendors who was my good friend got a look of shock on her face and said: “You don’t believe in chemtrails”? I said why should I, it’s just a dumb conspiracy theory. Another was equally astonished. Both were middle aged women with decidedly left leaning politics and not into conspiracy theories. Another was a kid…
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If there ever was a word that has fallen on hard times, it’s the past tense form of the English verb wake. The word “woke” has suffered all kinds of abuse in the hands of right wing propagandists who use it as a derogatory label for just about any form of cultural expression they don’t like, especially those dealing with ethnic minority culture and non traditional gender identity. In normal English usage the verb wake is almost always used in compound form with the preposition up but its past tense “woke” has been used as a slang term denoting being…
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The paths to debunking the chemtrails/geo-engineering conspiracy theory are many and pursuing one inevitably leads to others. I’m going to do a deeper dive into one, the lack of any kind of certifiable evidence of the alleged chemicals being “sprayed”. There are two tests referred to in the geo engineering watch website, a one time sample of the upper atmosphere in region where airplanes were leaving contrails and multiple tests of rainwater. Both are fundamentally flawed in that there is no correlation between the substances detected and their alleged source. The one test that could do that, a spectral analysis…
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This is my personal blog where anything I want to write about goes. I’m drafting another “chemtrails” debunk article but I feel like posting something more personal and humorous first. This is a memory from my troubled but extremely interesting teenage years which popped into my head recently after almost 50 years and put me in stitches of laughter. So after all these years, I’m fessing up to one my adolescent misadventures. It was 1976 or 1977 when I was 14 or 15, I can’t exactly remember when. I was a teenager living with my mom in San Francisco and…
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And why am I so hard on Taos’s favorite conspiracy theory, chemtrails? It’s just the sheer stupidity of it and the obvious grift of the geoengineering watch dot org website that is the main promoter of it. I’ve often said that the path to debunking it are many and varied. Here is one, the technical aspect and it will focus on the many failings of Mr. Wigington and his website to make his case. The first thing you see on his website is the Paypal donate button. The grift is obvious. To make his case, he mainly has a list…
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Facebook is trying to move in on the numerous hobby forums on the internet and strip away their users and get them into Facebook groups. Starting last year, I found my feed filled with material from groups on several of my interests and hobbies, particularly electronics and electronic music along with solar and wind energy. It was an easy investigation to find out how Facebook got the information on these hobbies and interests. In all of them I’d used a Gmail account that was linked to the email I use for Facebook to register on a forum. All of my…