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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
hmmm that doesn’t really track imo: the amount of water that planes emit is negligible, and even if they do seed clouds they’re not actually creating significant cloud systems without the moisture in the atmosphere, which absolutely dwarfs anything that planes emit… remember the amount of moisture in the atmosphere is all the rain produced before aviation, and the amount of moisture in the atmosphere emitted by aviation is at most the difference between that rain and the rain since aviation (i’d wager it’s far less than 0.01%)
and seed clouds don’t actually create more clouds overall: they just move them from other locations. clouds are formed when humidity reaches a particular level at a particular layer of the atmosphere which exceeds the airs ability to hold onto it at that level, and the cloud stops forming when when it has reduced the humidity to the level to which it stays in the atmosphere
How do you suggest airlines limit physics and chemistry?
Using currently available weather data to change flight routes. You can predict where they are likely to form and tell planes to avoid those airspaces.
If you watch the video I posted you'll hear a scientist who's studied this problem and shown it to be quite viable, for only a few dollars more per ticket. It's incredibly low hanging fruit that should've been implemented yesterday.
You can also check this website to read more about it https://contrails.org/
Hmmm. I see one problem with this. The cost estimate is very pie in the sky. If all air transport does this then that is going to lead to massive delays. Having a kilometer thick chunk of airspace unusable is cutting out 4 usable altitudes. Those planes now crowd already crowded airspace above and below. Not saying it shouldn't be tried but we should be more realistic about the cost.