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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 5:16am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Precisely, that was what I was wondering too. You posted the link, not me.

 

I posted the link to the whole article which Gore was concerned with mass experimentation of chemical dispersions, he was using the white roof example purely as an example of what he was not talking about.  Seems pretty clear to me.
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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 5:04am

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What does emitting sulfur dioxide to reflect the suns rays have to do with white roofs? Gore was clearly marking the distinction between them.

 
Precisely, that was what I was wondering too. You posted the link, not me.
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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 5:03am

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Look I will make it simple for both of us, you start at the premise that you need proof that the government is involved in any nefarious project that they do not admit to.  I operate on the premise that all governments in particular the military wing of them have traditionally done and will always do many evil and nefarious things at the expense of not only their own citizens, but the rest of the worlds and any proof I require is proof that they are not.  This leaves us at an inevitable impasse that will yield nothing through discussion because you cannot prove to me that they are not doing this and proof for you will only be revealed when it is self evident perhaps years down the road or not. I have absolutely no problem with you thinking that I am a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theory and fully support your freedom to mock me incessantly if you wish.{#Cheers}

 
Hey, I am all for suspecting those in power. No problems with that. But I also like it to be done with a good dose of reason and not this guilty until proven innocent approach on the scantiest bit of evidence. Headless governments chasing mistaken populist fads can be just as dangerous as a clique of evil-doers following their own selfish motives in my opinion.

And to put all the numbers below into perspective, here's an excerpt from a piece a mate of mine wrote about Pinatubo (which wasn't even that big of an eruption on a geological scale):

I guess that most people will be associating Pinatubo with its climatic effects, mainly from the 17 million tons of sulfurous compounds and gasses, and of course the release of dust into the atmosphere.

But that is not even half of the truth behind Pinatubo’s environmental impact. Let us go through what was released during this VEI-6 eruption. While reading the numbers keep in mind the Nautanen maximum figure of 100 tons of heavy metals. Pinatubo produced 800 000 tons of zinc, 600 000 tons of copper, 550 000 tons of chromium, 300 000 tons of nickel, 100 000 tons of lead, 10 000 tons of arsenic, 1 000 tons of cadmium and 800 tons of mercury. All of it in the form of ash that was spread not only locally in layers tens of meters thick, it was also dispersed across the globe.

* Nautanen is a very toxic Swedish mine.
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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 4:56am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

  truly. Sir Droseph... that second article was about painting roofs white.  {#Stupid}

 

What does emitting sulfur dioxide to reflect the suns rays have to do with white roofs? Gore was clearly marking the distinction between them.
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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 4:55am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

um, the word chemtrails doesn't come up once in that article.

 

Look I will make it simple for both of us, you start at the premise that you need proof that the government is involved in any nefarious project that they do not admit to.  I operate on the premise that all governments in particular the military wing of them have traditionally done and will always do many evil and nefarious things at the expense of not only their own citizens, but the rest of the worlds and any proof I require is proof that they are not.  This leaves us at an inevitable impasse that will yield nothing through discussion because you cannot prove to me that they are not doing this and proof for you will only be revealed when it is self evident perhaps years down the road or not. I have absolutely no problem with you thinking that I am a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theory and fully support your freedom to mock me incessantly if you wish.{#Cheers}
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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 4:55am

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  truly. Sir Droseph... that second article was about painting roofs white.  {#Stupid}
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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 4:49am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

um, the word chemtrails doesn't come up once in that article.

 

From the article;

On geo-engineering Gore drew a distinction between small-scale interventions, such as white roofs, and large-scale projects meant to extract or neutralise emissions from the air or block the sunlight. Those ideas, he said, carried enormous risks.

"The most discussed so-called geo-engineering proposals – like putting sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere to reflect incoming sunlight – that's just insane. Let's just describe that clearly – it is utterly mad," Gore told the conference call.

A rose by any other name......   


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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 4:44am

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Actually Kurt, I have a little different take on it.  I do believe climate change has been excacerbated by man and that it is a natural inevitability as well however I don't think that geo engineering is the cause of global warming but a later further excacerbating factor.  My opinion is that this was started as a weather modification military project to gain obvious strategic advantage by manipulating the weather for combat purposes and now they are expanding as a misguided attempt to curb global warming hyper accelerated by the industrial age.  I do think that a lot of climate change alarmists including Al Gore do consider chemtrails as a major threat to even more accelerating global warming and make up a large portion of those concerned with this issue.

 
um, the word chemtrails doesn't come up once in that article.
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Posted: Mar 26, 2014 - 4:37am

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Yes it is.  I saw the vid this morning, but didn't have the time for a proper comment.

I say to those who deny the existence and purpose of these chemtrails that I must feel the same way about them as those who insist that climate change is man made feel about my denial of that.  

In reality, those who insist that climate change is man made must look at chemtrails as a major source of man made climate change.

I don't know how much more evidence is needed to say that chemtrails are real and the largest part of the geo engineering plans under way.  But the deniers of geo engineering insist its not real.  The deniers refuse to believe their own eyes and say that it is impossible.

I'll just once again refer to the profound change in weather we had during the 3 days that all US aviation was grounded after 9 - 11 and for the week or so afterwards until air traffic returned to normal. 

Why climate change alarmists don't consider chemtrails as a legitimate cause is beyond me.

 

Actually Kurt, I have a little different take on it.  I do believe climate change has been excacerbated by man and that it is a natural inevitability as well however I don't think that geo engineering is the cause of global warming but a later further excacerbating factor.  My opinion is that this was started as a weather modification military project to gain obvious strategic advantage by manipulating the weather for combat purposes and now they are expanding as a misguided attempt to curb global warming hyper accelerated by the industrial age.  I do think that a lot of climate change alarmists including Al Gore   and myself consider chemtrails as a major threat to even more accelerating global warming and make up a large portion of those concerned with this issue.


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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 11:01pm

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Let's back up the bus.

When talking about something as in the case of chemtrails, this is not Congress or the Executive Branch of the .gov running this, its the military and also private corporations.  The military is many things, but incompetent is not one of them.  Neither is NASA an incompetent organization.  Not everything in government is run like the Post Office or the Department of Health and Human Services.

I don't need to wait for the next Eric Snowden to come along and tell me what I already know.

Additionally, just because something cannot be proven does not make it false.
 
Kurt, there is a lot of gunk in standard jet fuel. It is basically close to diesel. Ever seen the brown haze coming out the back of a jet engine? Isn't this enough to explain the things you see? They are not clean machines.

Given that a plane like a 747 burns 5 gallons of fuel per mile, we can say on average 2 gallons is burnt by commercial aircraft per mile (probably an overestimate but, hey)
Now, if you think about how many miles are flown per day (there are no statistics on this but I found this rough indication:
American Airlines, the world's largest airline, has about 600 aircraft flying on a given day.  Each is in the air for an average of about seven hours.  That's 4200 hours per day.  At about 500 miles per hour, that gives you 2.1 million miles per day, or about 766 million miles per year.
And if you think there are roughly about 17000 passenger aircraft alone flying each day at, say, 3000 miles per day, that gives you 51 million miles per day at 2 gallons per mile, or 100 million gallons per day. Let's deduct a huge safety margin and say 20 million gallons per day are burned by commercial airliners alone. Now look at those wonderful maps showing where planes fly. Here's one for the US:



And let's say the US accounts for a quarter of all air traffic (wild guess). Then you are going to get 5 million gallons of aviation fuel generating exhaust (hydrocarbons and additives) that is spewed into your lovely US atmosphere each day.  Get the picture?

To get the same effect from chemtrails, you are going to need literally mountains of chemicals shunted up into the sky and dispersed and all of this surreptiously without anyone noticing.
Get the picture?  The numbers just don't add up.


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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 8:02pm

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O F F S .... !

You guys are all over government as being incompetent, until it comes to conspiracy theories, and then gov is suddenly smart and capable.

 

 
Let's back up the bus.

When talking about something as in the case of chemtrails, this is not Congress or the Executive Branch of the .gov running this, its the military and also private corporations.  The military is many things, but incompetent is not one of them.  Neither is NASA an incompetent organization.  Not everything in government is run like the Post Office or the Department of Health and Human Services.

I don't need to wait for the next Eric Snowden to come along and tell me what I already know.

Additionally, just because something cannot be proven does not make it false.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:37pm

O F F S .... !

You guys are all over government as being incompetent, until it comes to conspiracy theories, and then gov is suddenly smart and capable.

 
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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 4:47pm

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NASA, Air Force, US government in general.  You name it. They are actually going public with a lot of the reflection particles they are dispersing in their dangerous attempts to slow down global warming. That is out in the open now, I don't really know what else to say.

 
Yes it is.  I saw the vid this morning, but didn't have the time for a proper comment.

I say to those who deny the existence and purpose of these chemtrails that I must feel the same way about them as those who insist that climate change is man made feel about my denial of that.  

In reality, those who insist that climate change is man made must look at chemtrails as a major source of man made climate change.

I don't know how much more evidence is needed to say that chemtrails are real and the largest part of the geo engineering plans under way.  But the deniers of geo engineering insist its not real.  The deniers refuse to believe their own eyes and say that it is impossible.

I'll just once again refer to the profound change in weather we had during the 3 days that all US aviation was grounded after 9 - 11 and for the week or so afterwards until air traffic returned to normal. 

Why climate change alarmists don't consider chemtrails as a legitimate cause is beyond me.
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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 10:29am

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ugh.. this is the same old stuff.

1. Small scale manipulation of the atmosphere has gone on for a long-time - cripes the local wine growers even do it here to stop their wine harvest getting taken out by hail. This is not news.

2. The report merely states that the government wants to collate the existing science on geo-engineering techniques ("what they can and cannot do"). This is a far cry from evidence of out and out geo-engineering going on behind our backs.

Again, why go hunting for a conspiracy when we are de facto massively geo-engineering the planet with all our known emissions? Isn't that bad enough for you?
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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 10:17am

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links mon,  I need me some links

 

Here  and here.   And here is a govt. propoganda softening up version.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 10:07am

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NASA, Air Force, US government in general.  You name it. They are actually going public with a lot of the reflection particles they are dispersing in their dangerous attempts to slow down global warming. That is out in the open now, I don't really know what else to say.

 
links mon,  I need me some links
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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 10:04am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Who exactly?  This all feels like a plot for a James Bond movie.

 

NASA, Air Force, US government in general.  You name it. They are actually going public with a lot of the reflection particles they are dispersing in their dangerous attempts to slow down global warming. That is out in the open now, I don't really know what else to say.
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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 10:01am

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All I have to say about that is one person's nefarious is another's misguided attempt to save the world.

 
Who exactly?  This all feels like a plot for a James Bond movie.
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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 9:58am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

She conflates a number of issues here, some of which are bona fide:

1. yes, we pollute the atmosphere
2. yes, sustained contrails are man-made clouds which alter solar influx and can trap heat (this would both alleviate and exacerbate global warming)
3. no, sustained contrails are not a new phenomenon because of some conspiracy putting chemicals in the fuel but a natural consequence of operating jet engines through different atmospheric conditions. Their prevalence can be easily explained by the huge rise in air traffic.
4. yes, there have been small scale geo-engineering experiments on the effect of chemicals on the atmosphere (some of which work quite well, such as cloud seeding to prevent hailstorms).

This does not imply, however, that there is a huge geo-engineering scheme going on behind our backs and funded by NASA. If she really thinks these clouds ("which we have never seen before") are the product of such activity, it would be great if she could explain their actual formation and how the chemicals she proposes (mainly aluminum) actually do this, plus the logistics involved. Evidence of this is totally lacking.

What she does is conflate all these points to suggest that what we see is the product of a hidden geo-engineering project. I totally agree with the general approach that we should not pollute more but should pollute less and that we should be wary of any geo-engineering schemes proposed as "fixes" to what we have damaged elsewhere.
I nevertheless remain extremely sceptical that there is some nefarious plot behind this to geo-engineer the atmosphere. Everything we see can be easily explained by the processes we already know of. These are in themselves bad enough without having to posit some bad of evil scientits behind it all. This just distracts attention from the real issues.
 

All I have to say about that is one person's nefarious is another's misguided attempt to save the world.
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