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Last month, Congress introduced legislation that would impose a nationwide ban on spraying deadly chemtrails into the skies. The ban would outlaw atmospheric weather modification, criminalizing activities such as aerosol spraying, cloud seeding, solar radiation management, and other atmospheric …
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Several Republican states have passed bills to ban weather manipulation in recent months, occasionally echoing baseless conspiracy theories about manufactured storms and floods. But posts online announcing the launch of a federal task force by US President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services …
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The fatal flooding of Camp Mystic last summer in Texas was not merely tragic happenstance, said multiple speakers at last week’s Alabama House State Government Committee—it was the direct result of chemtrails. “I have watched the weather, cloud-seeding in Texas and it happened right before Camp …
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Legislation based around “chemtrail” conspiracy theories was killed by lawmakers, although there’s still a narrowing window for it to resurface. Meanwhile, state funding for cloud seeding, which is at the root of the conspiracies, is moving forward.On the first day of the Legislature’s budget …
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SALT LAKE CITY – For the second year in a row, a bill based on a conspiracy theory about “chemtrails” in Utah skies has failed to get to the finish line.SB23, sponsored by Sen. Ron Winterton, R-Roosevelt, was voted down by the Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee on …
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Feb. 1, 2026, 5:04 a.m. ETFlorida has banned “geoengineering,” or weather modification, in response to conspiracy theories about “chemtrails.”Scientists explain that the white streaks behind jets, called contrails, are ice crystals formed from engine exhaust in cold, humid air.The new law was …
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Local authorities say factors such as the dry landscape and climate change contributed to intense fires during an early January heatwave in southeastern Australia, dismissing claims circulating on social media that “relentless aerosol deployment programs” were to blame. The posts shared footage of …
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On Tuesday, I shared an article about condensation trails, commonly called contrails and explained the science behind how they form. If you missed it, you can read it here.I expected a few comments about so-called “chemtrails” or “chemical trails,” but I was surprised by the intensity and emotion …
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Though Abraham Lincoln famously extolled the virtues of government of the people, by the people and for the people, we can only surmise that our 16th president did not mean to include conspiracy theorists among that number. However, Louisiana has decided that yes, it is altogether fitting and …
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