That is cloud seeding, a localised weather modification. It has been openly used by a few countries, including 9 US states since the 1940s. It has never been a conspiracy.
Geoengineering is a proposed global technique to alter climate. Neither of which create clouds as the OP implied.
I do not know where you live, but picking a point in the Midlands at random, there was a large layer of ice-supersaturated air in the upper troposphere.
This would give rise to natural cirrus clouds, as indicated by the haze in the photo, and would also create conditions for persistent contrails, as the ice crystals formed would be physically unable to sublimate back into vapour.
These contrails would appear to grow as they undergo deposition, accreting more ice from the surrounding air while gradually spreading.
@chatswithem@Gian1252148 Nothing screams 'my argument is scientifically sound' quite like dropping a wild claim about 5G and HAARP, and then immediately blocking the person before they can reply. π π€‘
@chatswithem A mixture of altocumulus and cirrus cloud, as often seen in the UK for the last few thousand years. π
You can tell it is not geoengineering because there are no proposed geoengineering techniques that create clouds. π€·ββοΈ
It's not an exception; weather fronts form in the Atlantic and move over the UK all the time. That's why the UK is famous for its cloudy weather; even the Romans mentioned it.
Ironically, it is comments like yours that make it harder to discuss genuine concerns about geoengineering, because the public ends up associating the entire subject with nonsensical conspiracy theories. π€·
Is it because most people actually understand that what youβre looking at is high relative humidity at the top of the troposphere? It's literally just a mix of natural cirrus clouds and the ice crystals formed under those exact conditions, which create persistent contrails.
Or is it because most people know that none of the proposed geoengineering techniques would result in massive swaths of cloud cover?