- No deliberate chemical dumping and no geoengineering in Tennessee
- Geoengineering projects are carried out in secrecy, with no public information, and only the wealthy have an exclusive interest in them
- Chemtrails are being denied, but people are believing it more and more
No deliberate chemical dumping and no geoengineering in Tennessee
The Tennessee State Senate has passed a bill on the controversial so-called "chemtrails". The bill, which aims to ban the deliberate release of chemicals into the atmosphere for the purpose of geoengineering, was introduced by a group of Republicans and recently passed by the full Tennessee Senate.
The legislation is based on the assertion that "it is well documented that the federal government, or other entities acting on behalf of or at the request of the federal government, may conduct geoengineering experiments that intentionally release chemicals into the atmosphere".
This new bill seeks to curb any such activity by specifying that the intentional release of chemicals into the atmosphere to affect temperature, weather, or solar intensity is prohibited in Tennessee. Proponents of the bill believe this is a necessary step to protect the environment and public health from unregulated geoengineering practices.
The legislation is likely to be implemented from 1 July 2024, but the bill has yet to be considered by the US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. If the House of Representatives approves the bill, Tennessee will become the first state to have a legal framework explicitly prohibiting chemical geoengineering[1].
Similar initiatives have already been taken in other states but have not reached the final stage. Late last year, the New Hampshire House of Representatives introduced a new bill on "preserving a clean atmosphere by reducing environmental pollution". The bill aimed to ban deliberate emissions, including cloud seeding, and to control electromagnetic radio-frequency and microwave radiation.
The draft was aimed at entities that "carry out hazardous activities in the atmosphere", as well as against those engaged in weather modification. The draft law also included sanctions for this. However, at the last stage, the New Hampshire legislators decided that it was not appropriate to pass the law.
Earlier, residents of Texas, one of America's largest states, had launched a petition entitled "Stop Poisoning Our Families", but the required number of signatures was not collected.
Geoengineering projects are carried out in secrecy, with no public information, and only the wealthy have an exclusive interest in them
Geoengineering projects have been worrying the global community for some time. And there is indeed reason for concern. The company "Make Sunsets" recently successfully launched balloons from Mexico that could release sulfur particles into the atmosphere[2].
Luke Iseman, co-founder and CEO of the company, argued that the threat of climate change makes such interventions necessary: they need to be done quickly and safely. However, the public tends to disagree. Make Sunsets has even tried to implement the project without informing people, without the help of scientists. Moreover, the company's main concern does not seem to be the dangers posed by climate change, but the desire to make a profit.
Another group of scientists has recently proposed a new method of geoengineering: deliberately dehydrating the stratosphere. They argue that water vapor is very important because it is the most abundant greenhouse gas on Earth. The greenhouse effect occurs when gases in the atmosphere trap the sun's heat to keep the planet alive, while water vapor is made up of complex molecules that absorb heat from the Earth's surface and radiate it back to the planet[3].
Chemtrails are often associated with the controversial billionaire George Soros, who has repeatedly spoken publicly about his plans to stop climate change. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in 2023, Soros boasted that he had discovered a process that creates clouds that reflect sunlight away from warming areas and prevent ice sheets from melting. Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has also spoken about a similar idea. One WEF video talks about reflecting solar radiation back into space.
Billionaire Bill Gates has supported a project by Harvard University researchers to test the idea of injecting calcium carbonate into the atmosphere over northern Scandinavia. The project was eventually abandoned after an outcry from local groups and environmentalists.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of e-commerce giant Amazon, used Amazon's supercomputing capabilities to simulate the effects of plans to inject massive amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere later in the year. The billionaire co-founder of Facebook, Dustin Moskovitz, has given US$ 900,000 to fund researchers in Mali, Brazil, Thailand, and elsewhere to study the potential impact of solar geoengineering. It is clear that geoengineering is a field of interest to the very rich.
However, it is a subject that should be approached with caution when it comes to discussing and proposing ideas, let alone implementing them. The various proposals for influencing the atmosphere are a form of solar geoengineering that has been subject to well-deserved criticism. Although some scientists argue that solar geoengineering can be a kind of climate protection measure, the public is concerned about the long-term effects of such games on nature, both on us and on the environment as a whole[4].
Chemtrails are being denied, but people are believing it more and more
When the weather is right, you can see long, thin lines of clouds in the sky as a plane passes overhead. Scientists say these are just marks in the sky: water vapor emitted by planes condenses at low temperatures and leaves thin trails of ice crystals in its wake.
However, since the US Air Force published a paper in 1996 on the hypothetical military use of weather, a large part of the public and the then still-growing internet community has become interested in chemtrails.
The theory is that "chemtrails" are part of a conspiracy to control the weather or poison the environment by spraying chemicals into the atmosphere. It is often argued that the traces left by a standard airliner should dissipate quickly, so any clouds that do not disappear immediately must be full of additional, undisclosed substances.
Depending on one's beliefs, the United Nations, the military, national governments, climate scientists, billionaires, big business, or figures such as the aforementioned Soros and Schwab are all said to be behind this. The reasons why a large organization or individuals might be responsible for such activities range from modifying the weather to controlling the human population through sterilization.
Scientists claim that there is no evidence that airplanes release chemicals into the atmosphere to change the weather or control people.
A 2016 paper published in the scientific journal Environmental Research Letters presented the conclusions of 77 experts on the evidence for a "secret large-scale atmospheric program" (SLAP). The authors noted that public confusion or uncertainty about the 'chemtrail' claims may have been partly due to the scientific community's failure to address these doubts for several years rigorously.
All but one of the scientists involved in the study claimed to have found no evidence of a chemtrail conspiracy. The only anomaly was that one scientist recorded unusually high levels of barium in the atmosphere in a remote area where the ground soil contained little of this chemical element.
However, not everyone is convinced by such claims and possible evidence. A 2011 survey in the US, Canada and the UK found that 16.6% of respondents agreed with the 'chemtrail' theory, and by 2017 it was estimated that this percentage could be as high as 40% among the US population.
