What is Geoengineering?

Geoengineering is the large-scale manipulation of the earth’s climate and also, at times, its local weather events. Such manipulation and control of weather is achieved by aerosol spraying of metallic compounds from airplanes “chemtrails” into the sky, along with the manipulation of the resulting ionized atmosphere by the use of electromagnetic radiation to “steer” the weather. Some observers believe that this manipulation of weather and climate patterns can explain such phenomena as the increase in hurricanes, severe flooding, drought, and hard-to-control wildfires. The most immediate and obvious manifestation of geoengineering is “chemtrails,” trails that persist in the sky turning it a murky mess that are sprayed from nozzles located on the wings of unmarked government jets that do not appear on flight radar. Apologists for the observed patterns claim that the trails coming from the jets are harmless water vapor condensation, sometimes mixed with jet fuel, a.k.a. contrails. 

Contrails or weather modification?

The EPA and NASA officially claim that these trails are contrails with particles added from jet fuel, and set forth the science of the contrail. Others argue that not only has geoengineering long been deployed, but that current jet airplanes, both military and passenger, have high bypass turbofan jet engines and as such are nearly incapable of creating a contrail. Certainly, the military has explored weather as a weapon in the past, with Operation Popeye and Project Storm Fury, to name a few. The Air Force document, Weather as a Weapon, Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025, speaks for itself. Based on abundant historical evidence including military and other documents, patents, video of spraying, and footage of nozzles, the military has wanted to develop and has developed weather as a weapon which has increased in scale and amount since approximately 1998.  

Indeed China has openly admitted to geoengineering the weather. Though they deny any large-scale weather modification, EPA concedes that these contrails can contribute to the warming of the planet and are a source of air pollution. Lab tests show high levels of aluminum, barium, and strontium in our precipitation, and therefore in our air column: in the air that we breathe and the water that falls on our planet.

Solar Radiation Management to be deployed

In 2022, Congress ordered the White House to prepare a report regarding a form of geoengineering, Solar Radiation Management (SRM). The report, published in 2023, set forth a 5-year plan to explore and eventually deploy SRM to slow global warming.  Regardless of whether the lines in the sky are contrails or chemtrails, there is an open government plan to use this technology to combat climate change, even though some climate scientists call for a moratorium on this technology as far too dangerous to use.

State laws cannot stop geoengineering

In recent years, the growing concern about geoengineering has created a groundswell of interest in passing laws banning weather modification. 28 states have introduced bills to prohibit climate engineering and two states, Tennessee and Florida, passed bills into law. Tennessee’s law is a short, one-page amendment to the Tennessee Air Quality Act which prohibits spraying particulates into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting climate in Tennessee and makes a violation a misdemeanor with a $10,000 fine. This 2024 law was a good first step in that it legitimized the issue of geoengineering as pertinent and as real. But what can the Tennessee law actually accomplish? The main problem with state laws on geoengineering, at least the variety that involve airplanes, is that state governors do not have the power to control their airspace. State governments can only regulate whatever does not fall under the purview of the FAA like regulation of airports, which involves local control of land and zoning.

Florida’s law, enacted in 2025, goes farther than the Tennessee law. A violation is a felony with up to 5 years in prison and a fine not exceeding $100,000. The Florida law reflects the state jurisdiction over their public airports, because the law provides that “all operators” shall report monthly regarding any geoengineering or weather modification occurring at a public-use airport. Neither of these laws address the weather modification done by the military, nor do they address the failure of the EPA to uphold their mission of ensuring that Americans have clean air, land, and water. Geoengineering is a federal problem not a state problem.