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what about control of other natural disasters? i can't think how to work that into either this or its own article, but i'm very interested in stuff like venting geothermal pressure to avoid tectonic stress and earthquakes.. and stuff.
There is some text a bit confusing in the section Conspiracy theories which state, "The chemtrail conspiracy theory supposes that jet contrails are chemically altered to modify the weather and other phenomena." As it is, it reads as if weather modification by seeding clouds is a conspiracy theory. Adding to it also because cloud seeding is a technique that can make use of planes dispersing chemicals in the air. I removed the text and wrote the edit summary, "removed text at odds with current scientific development (contrails explicitly shown in news segment for cloud seeding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zFTsFFcWc)".
This was reverted by User:AndyTheGrump, with the rationale, "Restore sourced content - Wikipedia doesn't base articles on what a contributor saw on YouTube". Per WP:YOUTUBE, "Links should be evaluated for inclusion with due care on a case-by-case basis." Although I removed text, the point of the guidance is that the link should be evaluated and not dismissed only because it is from YouTube.
The video of Good Morning America features a meteorologist explaining cloud seeding and shows an airplane making a trail resembling a contrail (starting at 1:04) and dropping a payload of chemicals into a cloud. I don't know how long can those trails be, how long they last or if they are noticeable from the ground. I suggest rewording the text to reflect this technology and avoid confusion. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 05:49, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
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what about control of other natural disasters? i can't think how to work that into either this or its own article, but i'm very interested in stuff like venting geothermal pressure to avoid tectonic stress and earthquakes.. and stuff.
There is some text a bit confusing in the section Conspiracy theories which state, "The chemtrail conspiracy theory supposes that jet contrails are chemically altered to modify the weather and other phenomena." As it is, it reads as if weather modification by seeding clouds is a conspiracy theory. Adding to it also because cloud seeding is a technique that can make use of planes dispersing chemicals in the air. I removed the text and wrote the edit summary, "removed text at odds with current scientific development (contrails explicitly shown in news segment for cloud seeding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zFTsFFcWc)".
This was reverted by User:AndyTheGrump, with the rationale, "Restore sourced content - Wikipedia doesn't base articles on what a contributor saw on YouTube". Per WP:YOUTUBE, "Links should be evaluated for inclusion with due care on a case-by-case basis." Although I removed text, the point of the guidance is that the link should be evaluated and not dismissed only because it is from YouTube.
The video of Good Morning America features a meteorologist explaining cloud seeding and shows an airplane making a trail resembling a contrail (starting at 1:04) and dropping a payload of chemicals into a cloud. I don't know how long can those trails be, how long they last or if they are noticeable from the ground. I suggest rewording the text to reflect this technology and avoid confusion. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 05:49, 29 April 2023 (UTC)