First and foremost, there is no evidence here, though I'm sure it will be advertised as such.
The reporter's claim that trails do not fade away like "normal" contrails is patently false. And this little piece of disinformation has been
touted as a fact from the "chemtrail" camp since the beginning. One only need to visit sites like
to see images from as early as the 1940's with persistent
contrails that don't fade
Another claim was about the "criss-crossing" of the contrails as more evidence of "chemtrails", except that the criss-cossing of contrails has
been happening as long as planes have been flying. In following image, the top picture is from "today" and the bottom is from the 1960's:
The more time passes, the more the population grows, the more planes are built and put into the air, the more contrails there will be in the sky. In
the following image, you will see the growth in air traffic at one location from 1989 to 2004:
You can see there's much more criss-crossing because there are many more planes producing many more contrails.
Finally, the claim that barium came from the contrails of planes:
- Barium is a member of the alkaline earth metals group, which make up Group 2 (IIA) of the periodic table, and a naturally occurring component of
minerals that are found in the earth's crust, especially igneous rocks, sandstone, shale, coal, aragonite, calcite, chalk, limestone, marble,
travertine, magnesite, and dolomite.
- Barium enters the environment naturally through weathering of rocks and minerals.
- Barium is present in the atmosphere, surface water, soils, and many foods.
Other alkaline earth metals in the same group as barium include beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and radium. Alkaline metals are chemically
There are far too many ways on the ground that barium can become elevated. But nobody has ever gotten into a plane to test what's actually in
contrails. So, to claim that barium is directly from contrails is blatant disinformation with zero evidence to support it.
In the video, the reporter claims 6.8 parts per million, but the paper says 68.8 µg/L which is parts per billion. That equates to 0.0688 parts per
The EPA limit on barium in drinking water is 2 ppm (2000 µg/L), and the tests actually found 0.0688 ppm (68.8 µg/L), just 3.4% of the allowable
Finally, this video is old from 2007 and has been debunked
. At that link, you'll also note
some corrections from the original reporter who talks about that after his corrections to the story, the wrong version keeps being used.
That's how the "chemtrail" disinformation artists keep the "chemtrail" hoax alive. By spreading around deliberately false and debunked