A post on social media claims that the US Government has been sued for manipulating the climate through chemicals deposited by planes. The claim appears to be based on a Daily Mail report about secret CIA documents. SIC Verifies.
“Conspiracy theories were real,” writes one tweet published on March 18th with the allegation that the US Government had been sued for “manipulating the climate through chemicals intentionally deposited by planes”.
The publication is accompanied by two images – one with the US flag and the other with a plane leaving a trail of two white lines in the sky – having gotten thousands of views. At the same time, many had doubts.
“Is it true?” he asks.
Then there are those who present the source: a published the previous day entitled “CIA accused of ‘poisoning the sky’ with toxins according to documents that expose secret climate control agenda”.
Did “conspiracy theories” have a basis in truth?
The recent allegations that the sky is being poisoned through planes releasing toxins or chemicals refer to ancient conspiracy theories about ‘chemtrails’ (chemical traces) and climate control that They have already been refuted several times by experts. These are now gaining new momentum again due to the Daily Mail’s reporting on these secret files.
However, the Daily Mail does not corroborate the theory, nor does it point to it as true. Bis based only on a single piece of evidence: that there was, in the past, intention to modify the climate for military purposes. Furthermore, the news only exposes the accusations of “conspiracy theorists” against to CIA.
The secret documents reveal that the strategic potential of using weather modification techniques to weaken enemies was discussed. These were declassified in 2003, with references dating back to the 1960s, and confirm that there have been real attempts, such as Project Stormfury, which aimed to weaken hurricanes with silver iodide, and Project Popeye, used in the Vietnam War to artificially prolong rains and disrupt enemy routes.
It was concluded, according to these same files, that the Climate control was limited and experimentalThere was no ability to create hurricanes or control the global climate. The US government itself abandoned ideas of large-scale climate manipulation when signing, in 1977, the Environmental Modification Convention.
“In July 1972, the US Government renounced the use of climate modification techniques for hostile purposes, even though their development proved viable in the future. Both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives held hearings beginning in 1972, and the Senate adopted a resolution in 1973 that called for an international agreement ‘prohibiting the use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war…’,” reads the statement. .
So what are the white lines in the sky?
The theory emerged in the 90s and has been circulating in various conspiracy forums ever since. It has already taken (EPA) to publish a clarification note with the US Air Force also made a similar denial on its official website at the beginning of the decade and even scientists have spoken out to combat the misinformation that has been circulating for decades.
The note explains that the conspiracy theory emerged in 1996 with the accusation that the US Air Force was “involved in a project to spray mysterious substances” and that the images proved this. But There is no evidence to support this belief.
So-called ‘chemtrails’ They are nothing more than condensation trails left by planes as they pass through the atmosphere. Despite widespread belief, atmospheric scientists clarify that these contrails are a natural byproduct of cold air meeting hot exhaust gases at high altitudes.
The characteristics of these may vary depending on environmental conditions, such as humidity and temperature.
SIC verifies that it is…
A post on social media claimed that the US Government was being sued for manipulating the climate through chemicals dropped from planes, based on a Daily Mail report about secret CIA documents. It is about false information that mixes historical facts about experimental climate modification projects from the 1960s with conspiracy theories about ‘chemtrails’, already debunked by several experts. White contrails from planes are just natural condensation.
