This is an online reference page for debunking the chemtrails conspiracy theory. This conspiracy theory is a form of environmental disinformation. It is not harmless, it takes attention and resources from real environmental issues. I don’t know where it originally came or when it started from but I’m not the only one who has viewed it as such. It’s main proponent, a man named Dane Wigington, is by all appearances, profiting from the disinformation he spreads on his website and other media in a similar fashion to Alex Jones and Infowars. While there’s no evidence that I know of of the fossil fuel industry funding or propagating it directly, there is certainly an indirect benefit to them from it. Believing in chemtrails goes hand in hand with man made climate change denial and those who fall for its deceptive messaging also tend to be vociferous proponents of climate change denial.

This page collects the online posts of the blog section about chemtrails into a coherent whole. I didn’t originally intend to write this much about it but the narrative put out by Dane Wigington shows itself to be very flawed upon close examination and the more I look at it and the more I argue with chemtrail adherents online, the more I come up with to debunk this absurd conspiracy theory. I start with showing some of the techincal flaws in it along with the obvious grift of the website by reverse engineering his narrative to a reductio ab absurdum. I then take a deeper dive into what dumping chemicals into the stratosphere would really look like visually and follow that with a more personal post where I point out the quasi religious cult aspects of believing in chemtrails from my personal experience with its adherents. The next post is about geoengineering in the real world which bears little resemblance to the chemtrails conspiracy theory.

 

Chemtrails Is Nothing but Internet Grift

Spectra and Color in Dubunking Chemtrails

A Heretic in Taos

Geoengineering in the Real World