EUROPEAN CHEMTRAIL UPROAR
Meanwhile, the chemtrails controversy has taken Europe by storm following a series of articles by Swiss freelance journalist Gabriel Stetter in the
German popular science magazine Raum+Zeit (Space and Time), circulation circa 50,000.
Stetter's first article, "White Skies" created a public relations nightmare for Greenpeace when it informed readers in January 2004 how "Thousands
of people were thoroughly shocked when they realised, and were informed by Greenpeace in Germany, Switzerland and Austria that-for some reason or
other-Greenpeace has no interest in the Chemtrail question whatsoever."
The Swiss government also came under public pressure to explain the checkerboards being painted in its skies. On March 5, 2004 the Environment
Department in Berne, Switzerland responded to an inquiry by Rudolf Rechsteiner, Social Democratic member of parliament, admitting that "A number of
ideas exist that show how it would be possible to reduce global warming by technical means, at least in the short term."
But these ideas, the government office hastened to add, "are no more than theoretical. We are not aware of any practical application of these
methods, either at home or abroad."
Ten days later, Greenpeace Switzerland climate and transport expert Cyrill Studer wrote an internal memo assuring colleagues that while he had "heard
of the chemtrails phenomenon," for the present, Greenpeace "will not be following up the theme of chemtrails."
Two reasons for inaction by Greenpeace climate change activists were given. First, Studer explained, "There is not a sufficiently solid scientific
basis" for Greenpeace to risk its budget and reputation verifying this "supposed phenomenon". To do so, he added in his memo to Greenpeace staff,
"would overstretch our capacities.Important elements of our climate campaign would suffer, particularly the promotion of energy efficiency and of
renewable energies, or our active influence in present-day politics."
Outside Greenpeace's corporate offices, the controversy continued. On June 11 German Greenpeace spokeswoman Kristine Läger told concerned
constituents:
The idea of reducing global warming by putting chemicals in the atmosphere has been around a long time. There are various proposals in this direction,
suggesting the chemicals should be independently sprayed and that they should be mixed with the fuel of ordinary passenger aircraft. Whether in
Germany such proposals have reached the point of actual realization is highly questionable. So far as we are aware there are no indications from
research and observation of weather and climate that these so-called chemtrails exist. Nor are we aware of any project that has been realized in
practice.. in all probability this is not happening.
But Gabriel Stetter believes that the Greenpeace "Rainbow Warriors" know all about the rainbows in the sky. They probably also know of
geoengineering studies to reduce incoming sunlight and slow global warming issued by the National Academy of Sciences. "And they may even have taken
a look at the Welsbach Patent," he writes. "But they have no idea what conclusions to draw from the chessboard pattern suspended in the Hamburg sky
or the aluminium-enriched 'rainbows'.
"Supposing the word 'chemtrails' appeared in print in the Greenpeace Magazine," Stetter speculates. "How many tens of thousands of people more
would look up into the sky and recognize that the supposedly Utopian "proposal" has long moved on via "spraying trials" to a systematic, long-term
spreading of cloud cover over the whole of Europe?"
Back in Basel, Gabriel Stetter quoted unsourced opinion polls showing that in this "stronghold" of chemtrails believers, one in ten people "have
already heard of them despite the media blackout. Several thousand people in the prosperous town at the bend in the Rhine know that the chemtrails
phenomenon suggests that something is seriously wrong."
Among these Swiss chemtrails activists, he explained, "are well-to-do people, who because of their environmental awareness have been for a long time,
in some cases for decades, members of Greenpeace."
Not any more.
"Veteran anti-nuclear activists, campaigners for animal welfare or against electrosmog-in their alarm they had all turned to Greenpeace because of
the chemtrails, which are visible everywhere in the skies above Basel. But a painful experience awaited all of them. They were palmed off with the
same unsatisfactory answers that we have by now grown tired of hearing. The consequence drawn by these elderly, well-to-do activists from
Greenpeace's lack of interest was the immediate cancellation of membership of many years, the withdrawal of legacies, and the withholding of payments
to Greenpeace until further notice."
As Brian Holmes notes on his website, www.holmestead.ca, the October 2004 issue #131 of the Raum + Zeit contained many pages of letters from readers
responding positively to Stetter's first article in issue #127. "Many of these letters are illustrated with color photographs supplied by the
readers themselves."
Former six-year a board member of Greenpeace Germany, Monika Griefahn chaired the Committee for Culture and Media of the Federal German Parliament
when she replied to a letter from two chemtrails dissenters in July 2004, stating, "I am in basic agreement with your concerns. Instead of making a
concerted and determined effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the world, experiments of various kinds are being carried out in the
earth's atmosphere in order to cure the symptoms."
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