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 source more closely. He apparently thought, without reading the website, that all the locations on the map were documented chemtrail instances. In fact, the website documents all forms of geoengineering and the most common one is carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere that is done on the ground. Only 9 instances of stratospheric aerosol injection are documented and there is a very informative pdf file on the site that describes the concept and how it is applied. All instances of it have been experimental and small scale. The most common substance used for injection is sulpher dioxide, it is mostly done from the ground, and balloons have been used more than airplanes. I did a deeper dive into two of the 9 instances. One is a company in California, Make Sunsets, that started in 2022 and is experimenting with stratospheric aerosol injection in several states. A quick review of their website shows that they are fairly transparent about what they are doing but also more than a bit arrogant in the face of criticism. They don’t have the funds for large scale airplane releases and mostly use balloons. They seem a bit more comic than menacing. Another was an experimental program in northern Sweden that was canceled due to protests from native people of the region and others. Making the sun even dimmer in a place where it is already dim, a really bright idea. I would have protested too. This website provides ample reference links and verification of its information and detailed explanations of the various forms of geoengineering along with information on actual instances of it. It also has a disclaimer page about chemtrails and conspiracy theories.
Apart from being based on real information derived from real data, the website also has a very different outlook on the sources of geoengineering from the other site. Rather than the accusing the government of the US and other countries of secretly carrying it out for decades, it clearly lays responsibility on the fossil fuel industry in a desperate attempt to mitigate global warming so they can continue to do business as usual and continue ignoring the climate crisis the non stop burning of fossil fuels is creating.
I also have another reference to stratospheric aerosol injection from a couple of recent articles about a proposal to use diamond dust in the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space and cool the earth. It isn’t the smartest of ideas. Apart from the enormous expense, diamond dust in the atmosphere just isn’t something you’d want coming into the air intake of a jet engine. Somehow the people who come up with these ideas never seem to be able to see the whole picture or the unintended consequences. I find that I’m just as skeptical of them as I am of the disinformation spread by Dane Wigington. In fact, the real world geoengineering is even worse because there is money behind it and it comes from people who have enough expertise to really know better while Wigington is just a con artist taking advantage of people’s ignorance to turn the huge number of contrails created by the huge increase in aviation over the last few decades into a false narrative of a massive global conspiracy. The good thing is that most of real world geoengineering is just an idea or in the very early experimental stage and there’s plenty of time to protest and keep any of this from happening if we stop paying attention to grifters spewing disinformation and letting ourselves get tricked into fighting environmental problems that don’t exist.
https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/
https://www.sciencealert.com/injecting-diamonds-into-the-sky-could-cool-the-planet-study-says
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