reply to post by zorgon
Hang on a sec, and let's put our thinking caps on (over the tinfoil, if you prefer)....
This "Scott Stevens", as cited in the link, said:
Originally posted by zorgon
Well this is interesting...
They call it Project Cloverleaf. At night, giant planes with no pilots roam the sky over the U.S. Instead of a mere vapor trail, they are filling
the sky with unknown chemicals designed to darken the earth. To thousands of people around the U.S., this is not a sci-fi movie or even a conspiracy
theory; it is real.
Scott Stevens is a believer.
Sorry, but instead of critically examining those claims made by Mr. Stevens, they are just swallowed without question? I am puzzled about his
"...giant planes with no pilots...." assertion. Certainly that alone ought to diminish any (last) shred of whatever credibility he was clinging
to???
And, then....little wonder the "khemtrail" sheeple believers are so easily hornswoggled, when they don't bother to examine the LACK of any evidence
for such outrageous claims. Like, these so-called "...giant planes with no pilots...". Not to mention, the sheer implausibility of the AMOUNT of
material needed, for this "clandestine spraying" at night (maybe the Boogeyman is helping?)
Finally....would the "khemtrail" sheeple at least settle, for once, on ONE example of what they decry?? SO far, it is the commonly mistaken quite
normal clouds and cloud types....and of course, seen very easily by everyone, so not very "clandestine", huh?
Then, we get some who don't understand how sunlight can reflect off of clouds, during low Sun angles (you know, sunrise/sunset) and make them appear
"red". (**)
SO...this latest, is the "dastardly deed" being done at night, so as to confound all of the logical-thinking naysayers, you explain the problems
with the misconceptions, as outlined above? How desperate are they getting, then?
(**) about those "red" clouds.....can't believe some haven't heard of the ancient mariners' slogan ---- or, adage, as it were?
"Red sky at night, sailors' delight;
Red sky in morning, sailors take warning."
That little ditty existed well before the invention of the airplane....even before the definition of "meteorology" as established science. It was
borne out of experience, and times spent watching the skies, to anticipate sea-faring conditions. It's not exactly rocket science......
Here, although it is attributed (often) as an old wives' tale, found this treatise (so you don't have to take my word for it...):
The 'red sky at night' rhyme is more than an old wives' tale though and has some meteorological foundation - in England at least.
To explain why we'll need to know why clouds sometimes appear red and how that may be used to predict the weather. Firstly, why do clouds often
appear red in the morning and evening?
- Sunlight is broken into the familiar rainbow spectrum of varying-wavelength colours as it passes through the atmosphere.
- The blue/violet end of the spectrum is diverted more than the red/orange.
(This is the same mechanism that causes us to see the sky as blue incidentally, but that's getting rather off our point)
- When the sun is low in the sky, at dawn and dusk, sunlight travels through more atmosphere than at other times of day. The red wavelength is better
able to go on a direct course and be reflected back off clouds, whereas the blue light is more scattered before reaching the cloud and is therefore
less visible. So, we see the clouds as red as the light that is reaching them is primarily red.
...and how does that help predict the weather?
- The weather in the UK comes from the west, i.e. the wind is primarily westerly.
- The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
- If there is broken cloud in the morning we may look to the west and see red light reflecting back from the cloud, i.e. 'red sky in the morning'.
As the clouds are coming towards us there must be a chance of rain, at least an increased chance compared with the cloudless period we had just
enjoyed.
- Likewise for 'red sky at night'. If we see red clouds in the evening they will be in the east and have already passed us by, giving a good chance
of clear skies and fine weather ahead.
www.phrases.org.uk...
PBS NOVA has a whole section devoted to Dimming the Sun 
And calling him a meteorologist is like calling someone who once ran a half
marathon for charity, and collapsed half way round, an olympic athlete 
