Toxic Chemical Geoengineering in the Troposphere

Well-regarded scientist utilized rigorous scientific methods to arrive at his firm conclusions

J. Marvin Herndon, Ph.D. has been dubbed a ‘maverick geophysicist’ by the Washington Post, and hold remarkable credentials in geochemistry and cosmochemistry¹. He is no ‘conspiracy theorist’ or crazy political activist - he’s a well respected scientist in the area of geochemistry.

Herndon has recently published a paper in the peer reviewed journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on the topic of chemtrails, Evidence of Coal-Fly-Ash Toxic Chemical Geoengineering in the Troposphere: Consequences for Public Health.

UPDATE: The paper has been redacted (see notes at the end of the post)

For those following the chemtrail topic for years, none of this is new, but it is encouraging that these sorts of things are now being published in peer-reviewed journals (a piece of evidence that you can tuck under your arm when you launch a class action against the powers that be).

Here’s the opening and closing of the abstract…

The widespread, intentional and increasingly frequent chemical emplacement in the troposphere has gone unidentified and unremarked in the scientific literature for years. The author presents evidence that toxic coal combustion fly ash is the most likely aerosolized particulate sprayed by tanker-jets for geoengineering, weather-modification and climate-modification purposes and describes some of the multifold consequences on public health… The consequences on public health are profound, including exposure to a variety of toxic heavy metals, radioactive elements, and neurologically-implicated chemically mobile aluminum released by body moisture in situ after inhalation or through transdermal induction.²

Herndon recounts his personal observations in southern California that inspired him to look further into the issue…

In the spring of 2014, the author began to notice tanker-jets quite often producing white trails across the cloudless blue sky over San Diego, California. The aerosol spraying that was happening with increasing frequency was a relatively new phenomenon there. The dry warm air above San Diego is not conducive to the formation of jet contrails, which are ice condensate. By November 2014 the tanker-jets were busy every day crisscrossing the sky spraying their aerial graffiti. In a matter of minutes, the aerosol trails exiting the tanker-jets would start to diffuse, eventually forming cirrus-like clouds that further diffuse to form a white haze that scattered sunlight, often occluding or dimming the sun. Aerosol spraying was occasionally so intense as to make the otherwise cloudless blue sky overcast, some areas of sky turning brownish. Sometimes the navigation lights of the tanker-jets were visible as they worked at night, their trails obscuring the stars overhead; by dawn the normally clear-blue morning sky already had a milky white haze. Regardless, aerosol spraying often continued throughout the day. The necessity for daily aerosol emplacement stems from the relatively low spraying-altitudes in the troposphere where mixing with air readily occurs bringing down the aerosolized particulates and exposing humanity and Earth’s biota to the fine-grained substance. The author’s concern about the daily exposure to ultra-fine airborne particulate matter of undisclosed composition and its concomitant effect on the health of his family and public health in general prompted the research reported here.

Composite of four images of the blue sky over San Diego taken on cloudless days showing various instances of the on-going daily tanker-jet spraying of ultrafine-particulates into the troposphere. Upper Left: Spraying just started. Note that one tanker-jet turned off the spray in mid-flight. The “clouds” are dispersed particulates; Lower Right: Overcast “clouds” produced by intense tanker-jet emplacement of particulates.

What Herndon found, and verified with his testing, is that coal fly ash is likely one of the main products released into the lower atmosphere for geoengineering purposes. His hypothesis, “Coal fly ash is most likely the aerosolized particulate sprayed in the troposphere by tanker-jets for geoengineering, weather-modification and climate-modification purpose,” could well be true.

Coal fly ash is a residue from coal burning. Because it is toxic, coal powered generators have to capture the waste before it is released into the atmosphere (well in the west they have to, who knows what China does!). The ash is then sold on as a product for other purposes…

Representatives of coal burning utilities and their trade organizations actively promote commercial applications for coal fly ash, which, to name a few, include uses as additives to Portland cement, agricultural soil amendments, replacement for compacted backfills, mine reclamation, melting river ice, and as subsurface for roads. Some applications pose potential environmental health risks in the short term and/or in the long term as coal fly ash is a concentrated repository for many of the trace elements that were trapped in coal during its formation, including, but not limited to, arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, thallium, thorium, vanadium and uranium.³

Now I’m not your man when it comes to analying statistical data, if that’s your thing then please dive into the paper and I’d appreciate your feedback. But it does seem that coal fly ash is a major element being dropped into our lower atmosphere. I remember seeing a documentary from the early 2000s about aluminum levels in California (the Redding area if I remember correctly) and the hypothesis that it was being dropped via chemtrails. Monsanto, not long after significant amounts of aluminum was found in the waterways, started marketing genetically engineered plants that were resistant to aluminum (Nothing to see here!). I’d have to go back and find the doco to get the details, but the point being that coal fly ash contains aluminum⁴.

Although aluminum is abundant in the Earth’s crust, it is highly immobile. Consequently, our planet’s biota, including humans, have not developed natural defense mechanisms for exposure to chemically mobile aluminum. It is a matter of grave concern that aluminum in a chemically mobile form can be readily extracted from coal fly ash with rainwater or in situ with body fluids. Aluminum is implicated in such neurological diseases as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) all of which have markedly increased in recent years. Aluminum is thought to impair fertility in men and is also implicated in neurological disorders of bees and other creatures⁵.

As if we were not under assault enough by Big Pharma and generations of toxic chemicals being injected, ingested, and absorbed, courtesy of our “Health” Departments, but we also have to contend with this airborne threat that is in our waterways, our food, on our skin and in our lungs.

More than a half century ago Rachel Carson called the world’s attention to the unintended consequences of herbicides and pesticides widely employed by agriculture. Instead of turning a blind eye, people everywhere became motivated to stop the worst of this environmental onslaught. Today we are fully aware of the vast interconnected web of dependencies and symbioses that comprise life on our planet. Earth exists in a state of dynamic biological, chemical, and physical equilibrium whose complexity far exceeds the understanding of contemporary science. The pervasive tropospheric spraying of coal fly ash threatens this equilibrium, whose delicacy or whose resilience we cannot quantify. Human health is at risk as is Earth’s biota. Are we to remain silent? Or will we exercise our primal right to speak in our own defense as a species and question the sanity of emplacing coal fly ash in Earth’s perpetually moving atmosphere?⁶

UPDATE: Paper Redacted - comments from reader:

Sunface Jack has let us know about the redaction of this paper - some of his comments are here (thanks Sunface):

Retraction: Herndon J.M. Evidence of Coal-Fly-Ash Toxic Chemical Geoengineering in the Troposphere: Consequences for Public Health. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2015, 12, 9375–9390.

It was brought to my attention that there are problems related to the recently published article “Evidence of Coal-Fly-Ash Toxic Chemical Geoengineering in the Troposphere: Consequences for Public Health” [1].

Together with the Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Franck Vazquez, and the Editorial office, we re-evaluated the paper, re-assessed the comments made by the three reviewers and note the following crucial concerns:

The value for average leachate concentration of Aluminum mentioned in Table 1 and used by the author to normalize the data presented in Figures 2, 3, 4 and 5 is incorrect. The author uses 70,000 µg/kg, while the correct value resulting from the un-leached European coal fly ash samples measurements published by Moreno et al. [2]) is 140,000,000 µg/kg. This error invalidates the conclusions of the article.

The chemical compositions obtained for rainwater and HEPA air filter dust are only compared to chemical compositions obtained for coal-fly-ash leaching experiments [2]. The author did not attempt to compare his results to chemical compositions of other potential sources. Thus, at this stage, the work is preliminary since it is not clear what the source of these chemicals is.

The language of the paper is often not sufficiently scientifically objective for a research article.

Consequently, we have decided to retract the article. This paper is thus declared retracted and shall be marked accordingly for the scientific record.

MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce strict ethical policies and standards very seriously. We aim to ensure the publication of only truly original and scientific works. MDPI would like to apologize to the readers of IJERPH that this article was published with the errors mentioned above. We sincerely appreciate the efforts of those who bring aspects of scientific error to our attention in an effort to maintain scientific integrity.

More commentary by Sunface Jack:

Another aspect which I found interesting is that the fly ash is extremely abrasive and in coal Power Station's it is never blown, but is captured using cyclones and electrostatic precipitators and transported as a slurry with water as the carrier. It is not conveyed by belt conveyors as it is extremely light like cement is. It would be blown and scattered everywhere.

There is no discussion on how it was aerosolized and sprayed which would be quite telling IMO.

The electrostatics in the troposphere would most probably be problematic to this type of spraying if it was true. It is not discussed how it is overcome, we know that the fly ash is sensitive to electrostatic charges which occur in that area of weather manufacture, i.e., lightning. We don't even want to discuss humidity. The author mentions that air is dry. "The dry warm air above San Diego is not conducive to the formation of jet contrails, which are ice condensate. Contra electrostatics would be a problem then? So, in atmospheres which have high humidity this would not work I assume.

Next would be that depending on the coal source the fly ash compositions would be very different. "Fly ash is formed from combustion of coal for electric power generation and its composition and morphology are largely products of the parent coal and the operating conditions of the boiler (McCarthy etal., 1989)."

Sorry too many holes.

Oh! I found this . https://www.metabunk.org/threads/how-rogue-scientist-j-marvin-herndon-disproved-the-last-resort-of-the-chemtrail-theory.6734/

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1. https://geopolitics.co/2015/08/18/peer-reviewed-scientific-evidence-exposes-chemtrail-as-crime-against-humanity/

2. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/8/9375/htm

3. ibid

4. Coal fly ash contains a host of potentially leachable toxins, including aluminum, arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium (III), chromium (IV), cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, selenium, strontium, thallium, thorium, and uranium. Coal fly ash has been described as being more radioactive than nuclear waste. Moreover, many of the most toxic elements are enriched in the PM2.5 component of coal fly ash. Whether or not the coal fly ash used for geoengineering is selectively enriched in PM2.5 is not known, but enrichment in the small particle size fraction would be advantageous in yielding greater surface area for sunlight reflection.

5. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/8/9375/htm

6. ibid