What likely kicked off this sudden chemtrail craze was a paper published by the Air Force in 1996, Weather as a Force Multiplier, where a group of military researchers speculated about how they could use weather manipulation as a form of combat. The paper was explicitly presented as a work of speculative futurism about what could happen in the year 2023, but it raised suspicions in the civilian community. In 1999, environmental journalist William Thomas published an article that popularized the idea of chemtrails, toxic clouds that the Air Force was testing to control the weather for geoengineering. He based some of his ideas on the Air Force paper, but also on a patent filed in 1991 for a Stratospheric Welsbach Seeding for reduction of global warming. That patent was related to research into the idea that seeding the upper atmosphere with reflective particles might slow global warming by reflecting sunlight back into space. So Thomas work steered the chemtrail conspiracy away from weather control for combat, and into weather control for combatting global warming. io9/is-that-reflective-cloud-about-to-poison-you-and-change-1638680856
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 06:22:59 +0000
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