Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming (Curtis Bartley)
Airplane contrails are real, but we know what they are: water vapor and small amounts of other combustion products created by jet engines. The other pollutants may be somewhat harmful, but they are basically the same thing as produced by any other form of combustion. So what are chemtrails? Wikipedia sums it up nicely:
The chemtrail conspiracy theory is the unproven belief that long-lasting trails, so-called "chemtrails", are left in the sky by high-flying aircraft and that they consist of chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed for sinister purposes undisclosed to the general public.
When I say chemtrails may be real in the future, I'm really only making the claim that high-flying aircraft will be deliberately spraying chemicals that are not simply a normal by-product of jet engine operation. However, it won't carried out for "sinister" reasons and it won't be done in secret. Instead it will only be done after a great deal of public discussion and scientific deliberation.
The chemical in question? Sulfur dioxide.
In 1991 Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines produced the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Besides massive amounts of volcanic ash, Pinatubo injected an estimated 17 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. This caused measurable global cooling of about four-tenths of a degree Celsius from 1991 to 1993. The effects of the eruption lasted for about three years. [2]
The Mount Pinatubo eruption and its worldwide effect on the climate has raised the possibility that we could intentionally inject sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter-act the effects of global warming. This kind of large scale intentional intervention is frequently called "geoengineering" although Wikipedia prefers the term "climate engineering". [3]
http://curtisb.posthaven.com/someday-soon-chemtrails-may-be-real
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147495