Two of the three contrails spotted over Livingston Parish Sunday morning
Ir’s enough to keep a Louisiana legislator awake nights. The 58 House members and 35 senators should be horrified to learn that their passage of a bill to outlaw contrails from jet airplanes to be released over the state was apparently for naught.
It’s especially disconcerting for Sen. Valerie Hodges and Rep. Kellee Hennessee Dickerson, both of Denham Springs, who had signed on as co-sponsors of SB46, which became Act 95, and for Gov. Jeff Landry who signed the silly bill into law.
The lawmakers mistakenly referred to chemtrails in their bill when the proper term should have been contrails. But contrails are created when airplanes fly in cold and humid atmospheric conditions and ice crystals form around the exhaust particles emitted from the plane’s engines–and that explanation, though legitimate and accurate, shoots down their wonderful but crackpot theory.
Of course, there are a few others who should be, but probably are not, feeling a little silly about the absurdity of their little conspiracy. There were several legislators who joined lead author State Sen. Michael “Big Mike” Fesi (R-Houma) in co-authoring the bill. They include fellow Sens. Heather Cloud (R-Turkey Creek) and Valarie Hodges (R-Denham Springs) and 12 representatives: Beryl Amedee (R-Houma), Michael Bayham, Jr. (R-Chalmette), Marcus Bryant (D-New Iberia), Kimberly Coates (R-Ponchatoula), Raymond Crews (R-Bossier City), Kellee Hennessee Dickerson (R-Denham Springs), Kathy Edmonston (R-Gonzales), Peter Egan (R-Covington), Dodie Horton (R-Haughton), Danny McCormick (R-Oil City).
It’s not been determined if a single one of the co-authors or any of those who voted for its passage ever stopped to think that these contrails appear over every single state or to ask themselves if it might be the least bit logical or sane to think that the U.S. government was deliberately attempting to poison its citizens, its livestock or its fruits and vegetables with chemicals released at 30,000 feet above the earth.
I mean, there’re a lot of issues on which I don’t trust the guvmint, but this ain’t one of ’em.
Louisiana Voice 
Here you go Tom!
Contrailsâshort for condensation trailsâare those long, thin clouds you see behind high-flying aircraft.
They form when hot, moist exhaust from jet engines mixes with the very cold, low-pressure air at cruising altitude (usually above ~26,000 feet). Jet fuel combustion produces water vapor. Up there, the surrounding air is often well below freezing (â40°C or colder). When the warm exhaust hits that frigid air:
Whether a contrail fades quickly or lingers depends on the humidity of the surrounding air:
Humid air: the crystals persist and can spread out, sometimes turning into thin cirrus clouds that hang around for hours.
So contrails are basically man-made clouds, created under just the right atmospheric conditions.
âChemtrailâ is a term that comes from a conspiracy belief that those white streaks arenât just condensation but are actually chemicals being deliberately sprayed from aircraft for hidden purposesâthings like population control, weather manipulation, mind control, or environmental experiments.
That idea took off in the 1990s, largely through early internet forums and fringe publications. People noticed that some contrails linger and spread while others vanish quickly, and without a background in atmospheric science, that difference can feel suspicious. Add in a general mistrust of governments and institutions, and it becomes easy for a narrative like âtheyâre spraying somethingâ to stick.
A few common drivers behind the belief:
Visual ambiguity: Long-lasting contrails can fan out and form haze or cloud cover, which looks intentional if you donât know about upper-atmosphere humidity.
Thereâs no credible evidence that aircraft are dispersing chemicals in this way. Air sampling, fuel chemistry, engine design, and independent atmospheric measurements all line up with the standard explanation: theyâre just ice crystals formed from water vapor in exhaust under cold, humid conditions.
In other words, âchemtrailsâ are a story layered on top of a real and ordinary phenomenonâcontrailsâthat happens to look mysterious if you donât know the physics.
âNever argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.â — Mark Twain
Question: Will they cover this up and make it disappear like stories about them gosh durned drones that was attacking us several months ago? Don’t hear nothing about them anymore.