They definitely increase the cloud cover where I live. Very noticeable, you can often see which clouds were created by them... And that's without the conspiratorial stuff.
I downvote people who express things disrespectfully, like saying they're "embarrassed on behalf" of people who don't think like them.
So yeah, I'll be a totalitarian censor against people who put down others while expressing their opinions.
They also requested that people explain their downvotes, so I did, but I also find it objectionable to say something like "I'm embarrassed for you, but if you downvote me, you owe me an explanation." That's a one way street for respect.
I'm out of the loop, didn't the government admit this stuff a few years ago?
I was at a presentation in Croatia recently about weather modification in Yugoslavia. This is considered public knowledge there. When Yugoslavia fell apart, Croatia was no longer permitted to engage in weather modification.
The main method discussed was the use of small rockets. It was used for agricultural purposes.
The problem is the unsubstantiated logical leap from "weather modification is possible" to "contrails behind commercial aircraft are secretly dispersing chemicals in order to control weather".
If I was an evil government figure trying to secretly control weather, there are better ways of doing that (e.g. drones, rockets) than orchestrating a conspiracy that requires hundreds of thousands of people to stay quiet for decades.
I was going to say the same thing. Its really hard to explain the concept of "convincing but undoubtedly pretending", yet they captured that concept so beautifully here.
