I am posting a link to an ADEQ (Arizona Department of Environmental Quality) publication at the end of this blog post, because it got buried amidst all of the globalist tinfoil conspiracy crap on the Mohave County Arizona Chemtrail Group (a Facebook group from which I was just recently booted). This group ostensibly started out as a local citizens' initiative--hence its name, one would suppose--but it quickly devolved into a worldwide "free-for-all-for-anyone-who-was-remotely-interested" group, which have legions of copycat clones on Facebook, with thousands of members, which also have been in existence for much longer periods of time--and therefore having more opportunities to get things right. It begs the question, "Why reinvent the wheel?"
Purportedly created to deal with observed instances of increased levels of trace metallic elements and chemical compounds in the blood and hair samples of local residents, it became obfuscated with detailed analyses of airplane spray nozzle technology and declassified worldwide government cover-ups, etc., which are far sexier topics but have little or no bearing on the ADEQ's mandated mission of monitoring Arizona's geophysical environment. Add to this the inclusion of every Tom, Dick, and Harry around the globe who have feigned an interest in these subjects, and you have a cacophonous mix of strident voices, each vying for a preeminent position on the same soapbox.
Local and worldwide proponents of the chemtrail/geoengineering conspiracy movement (as well as those in other movements), in a dogged pursuit of "proof" for their elaborate theories, often overlook the basic principle of logic found in "Occam's Razor" to arrive at more plausible explanations for those observed phenomena. For those who may have the propensity to seek complex theoretical constructs and explanations to explain observed events and phenomena, the principle of "Occam's Razor" basically states that the simplest explanation is usually the most plausible one, if only because it carries with it the least amount of suppositions to prove.
https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/logic_occam.html
Purportedly created to deal with observed instances of increased levels of trace metallic elements and chemical compounds in the blood and hair samples of local residents, it became obfuscated with detailed analyses of airplane spray nozzle technology and declassified worldwide government cover-ups, etc., which are far sexier topics but have little or no bearing on the ADEQ's mandated mission of monitoring Arizona's geophysical environment. Add to this the inclusion of every Tom, Dick, and Harry around the globe who have feigned an interest in these subjects, and you have a cacophonous mix of strident voices, each vying for a preeminent position on the same soapbox.
Local and worldwide proponents of the chemtrail/geoengineering conspiracy movement (as well as those in other movements), in a dogged pursuit of "proof" for their elaborate theories, often overlook the basic principle of logic found in "Occam's Razor" to arrive at more plausible explanations for those observed phenomena. For those who may have the propensity to seek complex theoretical constructs and explanations to explain observed events and phenomena, the principle of "Occam's Razor" basically states that the simplest explanation is usually the most plausible one, if only because it carries with it the least amount of suppositions to prove.
https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/logic_occam.html
I came across a published document while doing some online research in preparation for a recent public meeting held at the Mohave County Administration Building on these subjects. I posted it on the aforementioned group a few days ago and received only one response, largely due (I believe) to the sheer volume of material being posted there hourly on a veritable cornucopia of topics--some good, some bad, and some just plain stupid. One could not see the forest for the trees, as it took me about an hour to find it again before posting it here.
Our own State Senator Kelli Ward did an admirable job of providing an open forum for her constituents in Legislative District 5 who expressed concerns about these things--at a great personal cost to her own political standing statewide, I might add--but realistically her office only provides her with a limited purview to deal with such issues as an AZ legislator. An ADEQ bureaucratic spokeswoman (a non-scientist!) at the same meeting also kept speaking of her agency's limited funding and jurisdiction in these matters. The following document, however, prepared and published by the ADEQ in June of 2001, provides a solid baseline for further tests to be done in our area--hopefully to include air, soil, and rainwater sampling--but at the very least establishes them as a stakeholder in any future proceedings.
The logical fallacy of "Causation by Correlation"
If those who claim injury from chemtrails want to prove a global conspiracy, they are "chasing windmills" (and I wish them luck); however, their immediate medical issues will not be addressed by anyone who can be made accountable for them in their lifetimes. I actually tried to help them, by showing them an easier, more direct, and less time-consuming way to do that with an agency which already has skin in the game, and for that I was shunned and vilified. I offered what many would consider to be a more promising path of investigation for these individuals to follow, in order to nail down the most likely causative factors for their medical conditions; yet, these same individuals have continued to "tilt at windmills" in their zealous quest to get at the "truth." It makes me question the sincerity of their intentions to really get the help they say they need and want for themselves, as opposed to just grandstanding and making noise for an all too receptive alternative media audience.
