Because we've entered the Age of Ignorance.

If chemtrails aren't real, then explain this phenomenon:

This reminds me of the dipshits that wanted to legislate that the value of pi == 3.

Fucking brainless.

They are passing them to win points with their base. Their base just happens to be morons.

If people could not be so fucking stupid, that'd be great. Thanks.

I suppose the condensing water vapor forming water crystals after a plane is a chemical too. So I guess the chemtrails are sort of real, but it is just water, and it's completely harmless.
The correct name for the phenomenon is contrails. Which unfortunately contains con as the lead of the word, so that's probably not helpful either.
The cause is hot air ejected from the jet engine creates water vapor, that is quickly cooled down at the low temperatures at high altitudes, this forms ice crystals that create the characteristic white trails after jet planes.
This is a result of physics, and it makes no sense to try to ban that, because physical laws of nature supersede human law every time.

Meanwhile small engine planes still use leaded gas. But you don’t see politicians trying to outlaw that.

I know I've seen a few of these laws verbiage and the only thing it would do is prevent farmers from crop dusting and other shit like cloud seeding, since that's done by spraying chemicals out of aircraft and that's what the laws are trying to stop. But for completely made-up, paranoid delusional reasons.

It shows the public that they are at least going through the motions, and doing something, rather than not doing anything at all, which is what they are doing.

This is what happens when you elect clueless idiots. Admittedly it’s funny seeing the chemtards wondering why they are still there after they got banned, as if they expected a perfectly clear sky after lol

Chemtrails aren't real, but contrails are absolutely a thing, which the airline industry should be regulated to limit. They are a huge source of the global warning that airplanes cause: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08

Banning contrails would actually have an impact on climate change.

Wait there are laws about chemtrails?

This is such a waste of time and money. Everybody knows the real looming emergency is putting a fence up around the entire flat earth so we don't fall off the edge.

It is literally impossible to know how many have perished over the edge, but it is a LOT, and it has been going on throughout all of human history. It's long past time to stop the carnage!

Because we live in a society of disingenuous assholes. The end.

it's less important for the far right who currently holds control to do things than it is to be seen as doing things. i have an ur-conspiracy theory that every outlandish conspiracy theory is a distraction from a believable conspiracy. this does a few things:

1. makes people who talk about conspiracies sound like nuts
2. creates a legion of true believers who will dismiss the true conspiracies as lies
3. normalizes the audacity of the worst of the conspiracy theories so that when someone starts conducting the framework for the false conspiracy everyone just kinda rolls with it

chemtrails are, ultimately, a distraction from that what's poisoning our air and water isn't additives in jet exhaust, but instead the byproducts of burning fossil fuels like jet fuel. by addressing chemtrails without addressing fossil fuels, the ruling class performed a bit of trickery. for the people who believe in chemtrails and are worried about the poisoning of our air and water, this is now a solved problem. for the people who aren't keyed in hardly at all, this seems like a compromise between the right and the left, and like some progress is being made to protect our natural habitats.

if we want to survive our most powerful weapon is to continue speaking truth into the world

God isn't real either, but politicians keep passing laws to force their delusions onto others.

Several weeks ago I overheard two of my neighbors making small talk about the weather, and how it would be perfect if it weren't for all those gosh-darned chemtrails everywhere.

That is the view of reality that is guiding public policy today.

The same reason there's tariffs on penguins.

Because they're fucking stupid

Because everyone in that government is a moron.

NoFX nailed it with Idiots Are Taking Over

They're preemptive, CYA kinds of laws.
Like the law against whale hunting in Utah.

Good news: We should see fewer CONtrails soon; https://nebula.tv/videos/simonclark-how-airlines-can-halve-their-climate-impact (or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOVqQ5sa08 )

Good. Next we need to get laws passed banning big pharma from putting 5G chips in vaccines.

Then we can pass a law banning autism in vaccines.

Or just ban vaccines. I don't know, I'm not a doctor. Whatever Dr Oz and RFK Jr says.

Because they can go to their constituents and say "these are our accomplishments, vote for us" and they will vote for them.

Chemtrails; now that's an ancient conspiracy theory that I didn't expect to see making a comeback. Can't wait to see laws against GMOs. /s

So they're banning physics?

Aren't contrails like, really bad for climate? And it would be really easy to divert some routes to shave off a significant part of contrail-caused warming?

Politicians pass pointless laws for the same reasons why you invent ridiculous tasks at work. To give the impression that you (or they) are accomplishing something and to get paid.

Except you do it for minimum wage and it directly affects maybe 2 people worldwide. Plus, you're the one paying the politicians' salary.

It's obvious what's going on here. The majority of Republican leaders, along with a few democrats, are actually aliens from a warmer planet. They're here to prepare Earth for the arrival of their civilization, who has already fled their dying world. They're expecting their arrival in the near future.

The aliens that are already here have infiltrated government, traditional media, and social media organizations around the world and are working to ensure we ignore the science and continue dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. If everything continues "business as usual," then our planet will be nearing perfection by their deadline.

One of the feasible ways we could cool our planet down is by using airplanes to spray aerosolized sulfates into the stratosphere. We've already been accidentally doing this by burning certain fuels. When "we" recently agreed to stop using such fuels, warming accelerated. Some human scientists have noticed this and believe it would be possible to spray the sulfates in the stratosphere where they would be more effective at cooling the planet and less environmentally damaging than emitting from the ground.

That is why they're making a preemptive attack on chemtrails, although there is some internal disagreement among the aliens about whether this is the best course of action. One faction believes it is more straightforward to accelerate warming now, hence outlawing sulfate containing fuels and preemptively banning chemtrails. The other faction reasons it would be more disruptive to actually allow chemtrails for cooling purposes. Their thinking is that they could continue to prevent humans from cutting emissions, but allow the humans to artificially cool the planet. The level of CO2 would continue to increase, and then, for spurious economic or geopolitical reasons, the flights would be stopped and therefore the cooling mask pulled off, resulting in a sudden temperature increase. This could be more disruptive than the straightforward plan since it would be more chaotic.

I mean, unicorn is the official animal of Scotland, so can we really rule them out?

Sasquatch are real. Chemtrails are not. Prove me wrong.

Yes, "chem trails" aren't real. But weather modification absolutely is and you can read government pages detailing the programs since the 60's. We ABSOLUTELY have been putting chemicals in the atmosphere to attempt weather alteration.

Whether this is a good or bad thing is not my point. My point is all these bullshit articles attacking a strawman that doesn't exist. These programs do exist. Conflating them with the chemtrail conspiracy is bullshit tho.

Here's a government website detailing Santa Barbara, California's cloud seeding program that has existed since the 80's

Cloud Seeding (Precipitation Enhancement) | Santa Barbara County, CA - https://www.countyofsb.org/2548/Cloud-Seeding-Precipitation-Enhancement

This is what those laws are targeting, not "every planes condensation trail is actually a secret government device spewing mind control chemicals". Stop calling it "chemtrails" when the very real "weather modification" programs are right there.