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The practice of manipulating the Earth's climate to counteract the effects of global warming
The claim that everyday aircraft contrails are actually deliberate “” used to modify weather or spray populations is widely rejected by scientists and government agencies, which identify the phenomeno...
The claim that "Trump controls weather" is false in the sense of intentional manipulation of large-scale storms: scientific experts, fact-checkers and multiple media outlets have debunked broad weathe...
Cloud seeding is a decades‑old, narrowly defined weather‑modification technique that disperses particles into existing clouds to encourage ice formation and increase precipitation under the right cond...
Cloud seeding is an established, decades‑old technique that can nudge precipitation under certain conditions but is not a proven tool for creating large‑scale extreme weather on demand; its effectiven...
State legislatures in multiple have responded to public concern about “” by drafting or passing bills that ban or track , restrict , or require agencies to collect reports — moves lawmakers say protec...
Secret, large‑scale “chemtrails” as a covert atmospheric spraying program lack credible scientific evidence and are rejected by mainstream atmospheric scientists, while geoengineering exists as a legi...
The claim that specific “chemicals” are being secretly sprayed from high‑altitude aircraft has no substantiated evidence in the scientific literature or government reviews; mainstream agencies conclud...
High-altitude white streaks seen are, according to atmospheric scientists and federal agencies, ordinary aircraft contrails—ice crystals formed from jet exhaust under certain humidity and temperature ...
Chemtrail believers advance a handful of interlocking arguments—visible trail persistence and unusual appearance, chemical test results and alleged residues, historical weather-modification programs, ...
Longstanding, documented government atmospheric programs and proposals — including mid-20th century open-air biological tests, decades of cloud‑seeding and research, and provocative military strategy ...
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) with sulfate is modeled to cool global mean surface temperature effectively but carries documented environmental side‑effects—notably stratospheric heating, ozone...
Peer‑reviewed science on deliberate atmospheric geoengineering exists in distinct streams — studies of cloud seeding and of proposed solar‑radiation management or carbon removal techniques — and those...
Third‑party fact‑checkers and watchdogs have not produced a sustained independent, line‑by‑line fact‑check of ’s claims; reports the outlet as unvetted, far‑right, low‑credibility and promoting conspi...
Cloud-seeding operators in the must file standardized reports with under 15 CFR Part 908 that describe the planned activity before it begins and summarize operations afterward, using NOAA’s Form 17-4 ...
Cloud seeding and related weather-modification techniques can nudge precipitation in existing clouds and suppress hail on localized scales, but the peer-reviewed consensus and expert reporting say the...
Social media has turned the chemtrails conspiracy from a fringe late‑night-radio curiosity into a persistent, globally visible online subculture by enabling mass sharing of photos, videos and anecdote...
Deliberate large-scale geoengineering proposals fall into two broad camps—solar radiation management (SRM) methods that try to reflect sunlight and rapidly cool the planet, and carbon dioxide removal ...
Local governments and state legislatures across the United States have responded to renewed public fears about “chemtrails” primarily by drafting and advancing statutes that ban intentional atmospheri...