Debunked: Ian Simpson's Presentation at the 2015 Cambridge SRM Conference

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I think all the infographics have already been thoroughly debunked, haven't they?

I can't help hoping that if I'd spent £100,000 to produce evidence of chemtrails and the best I had was still YouTube videos of contrails at dusk and misrepresented photographs of "spray pipes", I'd consider it time to give up.

Though I suppose even I could chew through a hundred grand pretty quickly if I did stuff like spending £3500 on leaflets then threw them away because of spelling errors......

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Ian Simpson's presentation at the Solar Radiation Management Science conference on March 13 (about the first 20 minutes of the video):



Unfortunately the audio is pretty bad. But he presented the suspicious pipes again as "smoking guns".
 
Ian Simpson's presentation at the Solar Radiation Management Science conference on March 13 (about the first 20 minutes of the video):



Unfortunately the audio is pretty bad. But he presented the suspicious pipes again as "smoking guns".

I am partway through a transcript, which I will post as soon as possible.

My favourite part so far:

Essentially, planes never used to make clouds, really. That should be end of story. Sadly it’s not, so we find ourselves in a quagmire of trying to explain all sorts of things to scientists that we know nothing about.
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I assume he meant to say that THEY know nothing about.
I would definitely call that a Freudian slip.
 
I've been through about 10 minutes of the video, and I think I've had more nonsense than I can take for 1 day. I did post a few comments though. I thought it was kinda funny how he announced that he can't prove any of the stuff he was going to present right in the first few minutes. At least he knows that much then..
 
I assume he meant to say that THEY know nothing about.
I would definitely call that a Freudian slip.

Actually I don't think he did. He seems to take a perverse pride in not knowing any technical details.

Full transcript below. A few small segments were inaudible, particularly during the Q&A, but I don't think anything important is lost:



Chair (Olaf Corry) : The first speaker is Ian Simpson. He is a university technician by trade and became aware of climate engineering in 2012. He is of the opinion that there are multiple climate engineering programmes already underway on a global scale, and I believe your primary interest is in dispersal systems on Airbus aircraft and Boeing aircrafts, and similarly global infrastructure which you say is necessary for this climate engineering programme. So I’m going to hand over to you, Ian.


Ian Simpson: Hello everyone, thank you for the chance of letting me talk. We’ve only got 15 minutes so I’m going to try and talk quite fast and just rattle it off [inaudible] Everything I talk about is on my website so please do look it up. That’s the web address there [look-up.org.uk]


Basically we’ve got this “smokers” video I’m going to show you which I filmed some time ago, and this is what I would - we’re jumping straight in at the deep end here, this is what I would call probably the world’s most incontrovertible evidence that planes, aircraft are spraying something into our sky.


We see thick black smoke coming from a fleet of planes that were not listed on any website, no flight radar, the CAA denying all knowledge of them. They are commercially liveried A320 jets flying in circular patterns, up and down, doing U-turns, and when you look at the plume, basically… we spoke to Rolls-Royce about this, and their engines are absolutely super-clean. There’s no atmospheric condition or engine malfunction or anything that can produce that, basically. The video’s about 10 minutes long but we’ll try to skip through it.


And when you look at the pattern of the plumes, as well, you can see characteristics, as in here, basically, that are consistent with three-pipe aerosol delivery system. So the top two pipes are basically spraying a constant stream, the lower pipe is a pulse ejection system of some description. Funnily enough - you know, I’m going to stop the video now and go to the presentation





OK, I’ll just flip through most of them… We see a lot of similarities, basically, between the things that we see and the predicted things that we are supposed to see with the proposed programmes as described by many of the world’s leading scientists. And we also see similarities in the equipment proposed and the equipment that we have discovered exists on aircraft currently. Airbus have stated categorically in writing, and a recorded telephone conversation to us, their planes, their A320s do not leave the factory with any pylon pipes, OK.





Essentially, planes never used to make clouds, really. That should be end of story. Sadly it’s not, so we find ourselves in a quagmire of trying to explain all sorts of things to scientists that we know nothing about. And I likened it to entering the Vatican and telling them God doesn’t exist. You know, it’s a difficult situation but we are getting there.


I’m going to crack on with the three primary programmes that I’ve identified.





Persistent spreading trails, you know, anyone who doubts… basically anyone who’s trying to [inaudible] climate engineering knows all about persistent spreading trails and that’s pretty much what most people talk about but there are two other basic programmes. We’ve got smokers and hazers, which I’ll focus on today.


Smokers, we saw the video - what’s going on? The only explanation we can think of, really, is that the three-pipe aerosol delivery systems, which are generally used for the persistent spreading trails, are being used to pump diesel into the atmosphere, or some kind of fossil fuel. Why on Earth would they do that? Simple: 400 parts per million. Fear. It’s what they’re trying to do, they’re trying to raise CO2, they’re pumping loads of smoke into the atmosphere. It has detrimental health effects, I don’t have time to go into now, but essentially it’s all about creating a climate emergency, on the back of which they can create a state of emergency, on the back of which they can do anything they want. I won’t go into who “they” are. You’ve seen the video.


This could be - we don’t know, we’ve not managed to get any samples, we’ve not managed to do the testing on it - but Greenland ice is covered in black soot. Where’s it coming from? It could be fires, it could not be, but when you see videos of planes pumping fossil fuels into the sky, it makes you wonder.


Second programme: haze. I work in theatres. If you want to create a nice hazy environment, what do you do? You use what’s called a cracked-oil machine. What does it do? It pumps tiny little particles into the air, and all the lights seem nice and fuzzy and beautiful. That’s what our sun looks like on most days these days.





Haze pipes: these are 737-800s. This is not my image - all the other images are all mine. This was taken from the internet, a 737-800, it’s a different system. Firstly the containers are on the rear of the aircraft, not the front, and it’s a single pipe - you don’t need to mix anything for this stuff. They’re basically tiny little plastic fibres, and they fill up skies on most days. This is probably the hardest bit for anyone to accept: to most people, they would say “This is what our skies used to look like, this is a beautiful natural sky.”





Wrong! OK, this is what I call “induced cumulus”. Now, if you pump trillions and trillions of tiny little fibres into the atmosphere - and we think they’re around 2 to 20 microns - what’s going to happen? On days of high moisture, they will form cloud, and basically the pattern with which these clouds emerge shows that they’re not really forming naturally, they’re not coming in in great big banks of cloud. What you will see is a particularly hazy sky in the morning, 10 in the morning, by lunchtime you’ll see tiny little wispy bits appearing and getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and suddenly uniformly all over vast areas we have these little fluffy clouds. They’re never very high, and in times of high moisture they get bigger, otherwise if there’s very little moisture you just end up with a hazy filthy mess.


OK, ultimately I can’t prove anything here today, you know. And again, you know, I’m talking to some clever people. But ultimately, I’m hoping that some of you, it may seed this little doubt, and you might take it away and run with it. So, you know, everything here can be explained with: “Oh, it’s probably just…” But you know, you’re scientists - that’s not good enough. Prove me wrong, please.


This is the [inaudible] microscope… this is the … actually, I’ll get onto that in a second, where’s the … you’ve got… uh, this is some of the fibres under an electron...





We’ve also done mass spectrometry on them and it seems they’re basically a form of plastic, some kind of polymer plastic, we’re not quite sure yet, we’re trying to get those results out for Berlin. I’m going to do, hopefully try to do a big talk in Berlin where we present the scientific evidence behind this and go a lot deeper into [inaudible].





Where it gets really disturbing is, this stuff collects in your throat. OK, on our tongue we have collections of these little fibres. What they’re doing, we don’t know, we don’t know how they basically assemble, why they’re sticking to our throat. These are desiccated samples, this is what they look when you dry them out, they have like a vascular structure. Again, plastic: if you burn them, they’re plastic.





OK, persistent spreading trails, you know, most of you know all about those, but what we’re going to do is prove that they’re coming from aircraft totally. What we’ve been doing is looking at the formation of these trail. This is quite a good image because it shows loads of different trail types:





This stuff here is a particular chemical that’s generally sprayed to induce rainfall. We will see - the Met Office invented a bunch of new clouds a couple of years ago, or in the last two years, and “uncinus” was one of them, along with “halo” and, you know, a load of other stupid names as well that they just invented out of nowhere and put up on their website. And uncinus is one of them. We don’t know what these chemicals are - we can’t go up there and take a sample. We can take atmospheric samples, but them people go, “Oh, it could be from anywhere - it could be, you know, cars or industry or stuff like that,” so you know, we’re in a very difficult position, but we’re getting there.





Then, smoking guns. Airbus A320s, these are the pipes. You can even see, if we zoom in, this is the best image we have so far.





OK, the metalwork’s been cut away, three pipes. Top two, constant stream, the bottom one we believe to be the pulse. OK, the pulse produces little puffs of smoke - when you see these trails spread you have two lines in the trail, you have little puffs underneath, the puffs form the bobby cloud, the bobbly cloud forms a very thin layer, and you know, it goes on and on and on.





O WOW! [note: This stands for "One With, One Without" according to Ian's dossier] Two - three planes, in one sky, all at the same altitude, one with a trail, two without. How do you explain that?





This is another one I’d invite scientists to disprove. No gap. So, we’re talking about two to three metres to drop from 900 degrees Centigrade, the general operating temperature of a jet in cruising speed, and the formation of so-called “ice crystals”. And if you work it out, that’s about 0.2 to 0.4 milliseconds. Is that possible? Minus 57 degrees, from 900? I don’t know, you tell me. It seems suspicious to me.





Different trails, one coming from one, one coming from the other - different chemicals obviously, different substances.





Different trails again. You see, two different trails, from the outside ones to the inside ones. Combination therapy: we often see two jet planes travelling in parallel, right the way across the sky, one will be leaving a short hazy trail the other will be leaving a very thin persistent trail. They seem to mix, they seem to be doing something. We don’t know what, again, we can only point them out.





Various other things, we’re looking for clues, we see patterns in rainfall, in respiratory diseases...





...aircraft patterns, where they fly and in what paths seems to relate very directly to respiratory problems, rainfall, all sorts of things.





This [inaudible] 6.35, 7.41, OK, we counted about a dozen trails there. That’s what planes can do to the sky. If you can’t see all this, you’re being paid too much. That’s my little saying, basically.





New clouds: mammatus is basically persistent trails, in high moisture what they do, they form these little bobbly things...




in high moisture they drop. They don’t actually generally tend to rain, the uncinus seem to cause the rain.


Uh, various other things, aerotoxic syndrome, I haven’t got time to go into, uh, blah blah blah. I’m going to stop there, and go onto questions, because I don’t really want to take up any more time. So again, you know, I do talks on this publicly, and I’m quite willing to come back. My talks are generally three hours with another hour of discussion, so if you really want to know the nuts and bolts of what’s going on and go into depth then I’m quite happy to do it. If not, you’ll have to wait until Berlin, if they let us talk. So, any questions?

QUESTIONS


Questioner 1: Are there any theories about who’s doing it?


IS: Er, yeah, it’s not something I like to go into because it’s very very difficult to prove. But essentially one thing you need to consider is there is no such thing as a national airline any more. All - virtually all airlines, with the exception of some of the UK budget ones and European budget ones, belong to three airline alliances, and they’ve all been amalgamated over the last 20 years, and when you look at the corporate structure above the directorship level, you’re talking global billionaires, basically.


Q1: But why would they do that?


IS: Why? Well, do you know what, why do people rob banks? When you see people robbing banks you don’t go, “Oh, why are they doing that?” You know, you just phone the police.


Q1: [inaudible]


IS: I don’t know. Do you know, I have my own theories but it’s not something I get into, basically. My focus is basically saying, “Look, see that? That shouldn’t be happening, can you do something?” So, yes…?


Chair: There’s a question at the back here


Questioner 2: Yeah, my engineering colleagues here, I've shown them your leaflets and various people have said, oh that sounds very interesting, and a colleague proposed different things they might be. One being that it’s very important, given that the wings of an aircraft are also the fuel tanks, it’s very important that you have ventilation of the various spars of the wings, and the different airlines with different aircraft use different means of ventilating the spars, and these are, according to my colleagues, the spar vents. You know, would that make any difference? [?]


IS: Yeah I’ll answer that. Basically, we spoke to EASA, and they have no information basically. They have no licence for this modification. All aircraft in Europe covered by EASA, any modification, is either a major or minor modification, requires a licence. They have no record of the licence. [talking over Q2] Also Airbus said they’re not original. And we’ve spoken to chief engineers of various airlines and they’ve come up with all sorts of ludicrous excuses about moisture release and hydraulic release, even fuel dump pipes, I mean, dumping fuel into the 900C exhaust? Drag plane! You know, so we can’t prove it yet. We’re basically launching legal action very soon, we’re going to get Airbus in court and we’re gonna make them tell us exactly what’s what. That’s really where we’re going. But we would like some scientific evidence to back all this up as well. Because ultimately we believe that some… at least some of these programmes could be harmful. I can’t say more than that at the moment, I’m not [inaudible, over Q2]... you know, I’m very suspicious.



Chair: Chap at the back, if you’d like to say who you are and [inaudible]?


Questioner 3: Yeah sure, I’m David [inaudible], Cambridge. I just had a question on your three-metre, uh, the three-metre theory behind the…


IS: Yes...


Q3: ..behind the exhaust of the engines. So you’re aware that most Rolls-Royce engines run at about a 92% bypass rate? So...


IS: No, I’ve absolutely no idea what that means. I’m not an engineer.


Q3: Sure, OK, well I think perhaps you might like to ask an aircraft engineer why you get that three-metre separation. Because a Rolls-Royce standard… a Rolls-Royce engine runs at about a 92% bypass rate so essentially what you get is a mixing of the exhaust gases with the minus 50 degree gases as they come through the engines? So essentially you’ve got your standard jet engine going…


IS [interrupting]: But that’s only the case on a turbofan engine, isn’t it?


Q3: But that is a turbofan engine that you’ve put up there, right? OK? They’re all turbofans, so you get mixing of the exhaust, so…


IS: Not all turbofans, but anyway…


Q3: Sorry?


IS: They’re not all turbofans. Some of the others…


Q3: That one, the 800 [?] is a turbofan. The one you put up there is a turbofan...


IS: Well yeah, valid point. I did say that, you know, that’s not something I’ve gone into, right...


[IS and Q3 talk over each other]


Q3: But if you’re going to tell the public that it’s impossible for there to be a three-metre gap…


IS: I’ve not said that.


Q3: But, I mean, that’s what you tried to put forward to us. You shouldn’t need to check with someone who actually knows about this stuff. Similarly with the pipes, right? Ask somebody who put the pipes on the aircraft, rather than…


IS: Well, who put them on, then?


Q3: ...saying, “Oh, we checked with someone and nobody quite knows where they came from.” If you ask an aircraft engineer, they will be able to tell you where the pipes came from. The pipes are there for a reason.


IS: Well, we spoke to one engineer, and he said they’re… it’s not… there’s no such thing as a pylon pipe. OK? Off the record...


Q3: That doesn’t sound like a very…


IS: On the record, basically they say they’re original. Rob Crew. I spoke to Rob Crew, chief engineer at British Airways: “Oh no, they’re original, we haven’t modified our planes.” Airbus claim different. So who’s telling the truth? You know, easyJet, chief engineer, I’ve got it in writing, they’re “hot air vent pipes”. Rolls-Royce said: “We don’t have hot air vent pipes.”


Q3: But they’re [drowned out by IS]


IS: So who’s telling the truth?


Q3: But they’re part of the wings, not the engines, so you don’t go to an engine manufacturer asking why they’ve got vent pipes on the wing.


IS: So you’re telling me one of the chief engineers at Rolls-Royce doesn’t know what he’s talking about?


Q3: Well the chief engineer at Rolls-Royce is designing the engine, not the wing.


IS: Yeah but he should know where all the pipes go.


Chair: OK, let’s move on to the next question.


Questioner 4: [inaudible] I have a question, sir. For my job I’m an atmospheric physicist, who has done a lot of work on contrails. And I am very confident I can explain all the pictures you have shown me today as just contrails. So, do you think I am part of that conspiracy?


IS: No, because I don’t know what you’ve got to say, but I’d like to talk to you, yeah. I’d like to hear your explanations. What do you consider the minimum conditions for contrails in terms of altitude and temperature? Because the Met Office used to say, minus 57 degrees and 37,000 feet, which is the average…


Q4: [inaudible] figures, that is not right... [IS begins to interrupt and is silenced by chair]. It is variable…


IS: In a temperate zone, that is what they said.


Q4: That was approximate [?], anyway. I’m confident… Do you think [inaudible] scientists… I mean, what is it, a hundred scientists like me, who work on contrails, and [inaudible], so do you think we’re totally stupid, or do you think we are part of some conspiracy?


IS: No, I don’t judge anyone individually. As I said, my mission is to say: “Look, actually to me that doesn’t make sense,” so I’m presenting my evidence, and if you want to come and talk to me and teach me something about that then you’re welcome. Basically, when I see a plane at 16,000 feet leaving a persistent trail on a warm sunny day, to me that doesn’t make sense. When you look at radiosonde data, you realise that you can’t get those sort of temperatures, especially on a summer’s day, to produce those kinds of trails. [Q4 trying to interject] OK, and then you see another plane next to it, not leaving anything, to me that’s suspicious. Come and talk to me, please.


Chair: We’ve got to press on with the next speaker now...

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Needless to say, the sterling work by @Trailblazer should be the opening of a new "debunked" thread on the Ian Simpson's public presentation at SRMS. Most if not all of his so-called "evidence" have already been debunked here at Metabunk. The "permanent" link to this new thread then can be posted in a comment to the youtube video.


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Nice work on the transcript @Trailblazer, thanks very much.

The whole "I'm just asking questions" thing rings kind of hollow when you consider how hard he works to avoid listening to answers. I wonder, has Ian ever given one of his 3 hour talks? It'd be hard work, but something I'd like to attend.

I find this bit particularly puzzling:-

Ian Simpson said:
We see thick black smoke coming from a fleet of planes that were not listed on any website, no flight radar, the CAA denying all knowledge of them. They are commercially liveried A320 jets flying in circular patterns, up and down, doing U-turns,

If they weren't listed anywhere, how exactly did he arrive at them "flying in circular patters, up and down, doing U-turns"?

Ray Von
 
I find this bit particularly puzzling:-

If they weren't listed anywhere, how exactly did he arrive at them "flying in circular patters, up and down, doing U-turns"?

Ray Von

This was in reference to his 'Smokers' video. Unfortunately he didn't do any research using for example Flight Radar 24. Every aircraft featured in his video was identified. He is fixated by Airbus A320s. None of the aircraft featured in the video were A320s.

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-look-up-org-uks-smokers-video.3220/
 
Nice work on the transcript @Trailblazer, thanks very much.

The whole "I'm just asking questions" thing rings kind of hollow when you consider how hard he works to avoid listening to answers. I wonder, has Ian ever given one of his 3 hour talks? It'd be hard work, but something I'd like to attend.

I find this bit particularly puzzling:-



If they weren't listed anywhere, how exactly did he arrive at them "flying in circular patters, up and down, doing U-turns"?

Ray Von

And, of course, his "smokers" video shows nothing of the sort. The planes were identified on this thread: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-look-up-org-uks-smokers-video.3220/

Edit: beaten to it, but it is worth leaving the point that the video does not show any of the manoeuvres he claims. It just shows normal planes flying normal flight paths.
 
And, of course, his "smokers" video shows nothing of the sort. The planes were identified on this thread: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-look-up-org-uks-smokers-video.3220/

Edit: beaten to it, but it is worth leaving the point that the video does not show any of the manoeuvres he claims. It just shows normal planes flying normal flight paths.

He claimed that he was going to update the video. He made the claim that none of the 'smokers' appeared on Flight Radar 24. He participated in the following thread so there is no excuse for him to make those claims and to mis-identify the aircraft types.

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-look-up-org-uks-smokers-video.3220/page-2#post-93264
 
He claimed that he was going to update the video. He made the claim that none of the 'smokers' appeared on Flight Radar 24. He participated in the following thread so there is no excuse for him to make those claims and to mis-identify the aircraft types.

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-look-up-org-uks-smokers-video.3220/page-2#post-93264

He also stated:
Yes wise words. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me and questioning my opinions or evidence, and am the first to admit that much of what I discuss is hard to prove, but despite that I have learned a lot in the past year, and am determined to discuss things intelligently, so as to ensure balanced debate, rather than incestuous propaganda that can sometime emanate form certain sources.

And look where that led (among other insults and name-calling).

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(I hope this isn't considered "ridicule"; it is simply meant to show the hypocrisy.)
 
This was in reference to his 'Smokers' video. Unfortunately he didn't do any research using for example Flight Radar 24. Every aircraft featured in his video was identified. He is fixated by Airbus A320s. None of the aircraft featured in the video were A320s.

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-look-up-org-uks-smokers-video.3220/
And, of course, his "smokers" video shows nothing of the sort. The planes were identified on this thread: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-look-up-org-uks-smokers-video.3220/

Edit: beaten to it, but it is worth leaving the point that the video does not show any of the manoeuvres he claims. It just shows normal planes flying normal flight paths.

Aye, that's really what I was trying to get at - while those threads clearly debunk his claim that the planes were unlisted and untraceable, him trying to claim they were both untraceable and that he could know their flight paths is essentially self-debunking. There's no evidence of circular patterns and U-turns in the video, nor does he claim to have seen any, so in effect he debunks himself.

In fact, on looking at the video again, he says right at the end "They are commercial jets, some with flight numbers and passengers, so this cannot be military activity".

My Nan always said "If you're going to tell fibs, you need to have a good memory" :)

Ray Von
 
Yeah, it;s typical of this sort of thing where you are hoping your audience is just full of outrage at the things you claim are happening and jump on your bandwagon (and donate) without thinking too hard about what you just said.
 
Yeah, it;s typical of this sort of thing where you are hoping your audience is just full of outrage at the things you claim are happening and jump on your bandwagon (and donate) without thinking too hard about what you just said.
It's the same pattern you see in creationists who insist on giving presentations at biology conferences or who submit themselves to debates against Bill Nye. They know they have zero understanding of evolution and little more of creationism, and they know they're accomplishing nothing, convincing no one, and doing their movement no good.

And they're proud of all that. They're not there to convince, advance, or accomplish. They're there so they can go home and say they were there. That they sent a "message" or "kept them in the dialog" or some other nebulous nothing.
 
In that case they ARE doing their movement some good in the sense that the followers will still trust and follow them and will not understand either, but will believe their glorious leader did something useful.
 
When he quotes Airbus has he provided emails as yet? I do recall someone on his FB page saying they worked on the wings for Airbus and he had never seen pylon drains. He later posted what they are and are installed when the wings are sent to France. He deleted the posts I recall.
 
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It's quite stunning, the amount of bunk he managed to pack in there. I imagine the organizers were trying to do some community outreach by inviting some chemtrail folk, but Ian is so out there that I can't really see how this can be productive. Things like:

We will see - the Met Office invented a bunch of new clouds a couple of years ago, or in the last two years, and “uncinus” was one of them, along with “halo” and, you know, a load of other stupid names as well that they just invented out of nowhere and put up on their website.
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are just so obviously wrong, and so easily refutable, that it's just confusing as to what he's even doing there. I'd think trolling, but he's been doing it for a while, so I guess he's a true believer who just has a very unusual view of the world that's disconnected from the actual facts.

And for the record, "uncinus" dates back to the 1800s:
https://books.google.com/books?id=c0ZWAAAAYAAJ&dq=uncinus cloud&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false

(They were commonly known as "mares tails" before and after this)

And "halo", of course, dates back hundreds of years, like in this 1563 reference (with and archaic spelling):
http://books.google.com/books?id=ebpCAQAAMAAJ&vq=halo&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Circle caled Halon, is a garland of diuerse collours that is seen about the sunne, the Moone, or any other sterre.
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Or 1813:
https://archive.org/stream/researchesabouta00forsiala#page/100/mode/2up


https://archive.org/stream/researchesabouta00forsiala#page/n479/mode/2up
 
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Things like:

We will see - the Met Office invented a bunch of new clouds a couple of years ago, or in the last two years, and “uncinus” was one of them, along with “halo” and, you know, a load of other stupid names as well that they just invented out of nowhere and put up on their website.
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are just so obviously wrong, and so easily refutable, that it's just confusing as to what he's even doing there.
It took a while to work out what he was saying there. The accepted pronunciation in English, according to the OED, is "un-SIGH-nus", although in Latin it is "un-KEEN-us". I don't think "UNK-in-us", as Ian says, is right anywhere. But it's a word I have only ever come across in print, never spoken.
 
Another odd thing about Ian's claims: he claims that "diesel... or some form of fossil fuel", or alternatively smoke, is being pumped into the atmosphere in order to raise carbon dioxide levels:

[bunk]Why on Earth would they do that? Simple: 400 parts per million. Fear. It’s what they’re trying to do, they’re trying to raise CO2​, they’re pumping loads of smoke into the atmosphere.[/bunk]

This shows a complete lack of understanding of the chemistry of combustion. Carbon dioxide (CO2​) is what you get when carbon-based fuel is burnt in oxygen. The more complete the combustion, the more carbon is turned into carbon dioxide.

And carbon dioxide is INVISIBLE.

If you see black smoke, that is a sure sign of incomplete combustion. Black soot consists of unburnt carbon, and other incomplete combustion products, representing carbon that has not been turned into CO2​.

Therefore, pumping unburnt fuel or smoke into the air would be a much less efficient method of increasing carbon dioxide levels than simply burning the fuel as normal in jet engines, producing relatively pure carbon dioxide and water vapour.

It simply makes no sense, even within the parameters of his own theory.
 
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Chair: We’ve got to press on with the next speaker now...

[ENDS]

"owow" !!

Great job, Trailblazer...thank you.

I don't really understand how a guy spouting such woo gets 15 minutes at a real conference, but hey, there it is.

I did take some comfort in some of the questions...even though many of the scientists must have been
startled by such wild claims, most questioners seemed to be politely saying that IS's show wore no clothes... :rolleyes:

I took this graphic merely to mean that "Ian's 15 minutes are up" literally, so he simply had no more lies to contribute:

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He's actually used one of your photos, without permission or credit? :eek: He certainly has gall.

Yes, that particular photo I uploaded to Flicker with a CC license, so people are free to use it non-commercially with attribution.


What's most annoying though, is that he took it from a page that has a very detailed explanation of how the different trails came about, and he just totally ignores that and says "different chemicals obviously".
 
Another odd thing about Ian's claims: he claims that "diesel... or some form of fossil fuel", or alternatively smoke, is being pumped into the atmosphere in order to raise carbon dioxide levels:

Why on Earth would they do that? Simple: 400 parts per million. Fear. It’s what they’re trying to do, they’re trying to raise CO2​, they’re pumping loads of smoke into the atmosphere.
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This shows a complete lack of understanding of the chemistry of combustion. Carbon dioxide (CO2​) is what you get when carbon-based fuel is burnt in oxygen. The more complete the combustion, the more carbon is turned into carbon dioxide.

And carbon dioxide is INVISIBLE.

If you see black smoke, that is a sure sign of incomplete combustion. Black soot consists of unburnt carbon, and other incomplete combustion products, representing carbon that has not been turned into CO2​.

Therefore, pumping unburnt fuel or smoke into the air would be a much less efficient method of increasing carbon dioxide levels than simply burning the fuel as normal in jet engines, producing relatively pure carbon dioxide and water vapour.

It simply makes no sense, even within the parameters of his own theory.
I asked him that in my first (and only) post on his FB page. Deleted and blocked without comment :D



Ray Von
 
I asked him that in my first (and only) post on his FB page. Deleted and blocked without comment :D



Ray Von

CO2​ emissions are often referred to in shorthand as "carbon emissions"*, so I think his logic is "CO2​ = 'carbon' = soot". He makes the same mistake when he tries to link Greenland ice being covered by "black soot" with CO2​.


* The two are different ways to measure the same thing. Carbon dioxide also contains the mass of two oxygen atoms for every carbon atom, so it is more than three and a half times heavier. The emissions of CO2​ are sometimes reduced down to the amount of carbon they contain, for accounting purposes. However physical emissions of carbon itself would of course have no effect on atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.


Probably the biggest source of confusion and errors in climate discussions concerns “carbon” versus “carbon dioxide.” I was reminded of this last week when I saw an analysis done for a major environmental group that confused the two and hence was wrong by a large factor (3.67). The paragraph I usually include in my writing:

Some people use carbon rather than carbon dioxide as a metric. The fraction of carbon in carbon dioxide is the ratio of their weights. The atomic weight of carbon is 12 atomic mass units, while the weight of carbon dioxide is 44, because it includes two oxygen atoms that each weigh 16. So, to switch from one to the other, use the formula: One ton of carbon equals 44/12 = 11/3 = 3.67 tons of carbon dioxide. Thus 11 tons of carbon dioxide equals 3 tons of carbon, and a price of $30 per ton of carbon dioxide equals a price of $110 per ton of carbon.
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That's my photo, and the different trails were investigated, determined to be from different "intermixed" engines.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/wh...-likely-intermixed-engine-configuration.3246/

He also uses another image with the trails from a four engine plane both in his poster and his presentation:



Different trails again. You see, two different trails, from the outside ones to the inside ones
This is a result of the interaction of the exhaust trails with the wake vortices created by the wing and is addressed in the following thread:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/contrails-that-look-asymmetric.5763/#post-144097
 
What else? This...

[bunk]OK, this is what I call “induced cumulus”. Now, if you pump trillions and trillions of tiny little fibres into the atmosphere - and we think they’re around 2 to 20 microns - what’s going to happen? On days of high moisture, they will form cloud, and basically the pattern with which these clouds emerge shows that they’re not really forming naturally, they’re not coming in in great big banks of cloud. What you will see is a particularly hazy sky in the morning, 10 in the morning, by lunchtime you’ll see tiny little wispy bits appearing and getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and suddenly uniformly all over vast areas we have these little fluffy clouds. They’re never very high, and in times of high moisture they get bigger[/bunk]

If you ignore the part about "fibres", that is a pretty good description of perfectly natural fair-weather cumulus formation, as outlined in fairly basic terms here: http://www.weathercast.co.uk/weathe...4a4a908368/article/first_signs_of_spring.html

In spring and summer, the sun is strong enough to lift the air temperature over the land on bright days. The process of the sun warming the Earth’s surface, as well as the surrounding air, leads to warm air rising due to atmospheric convection. Due to the energy used for this uplift and the expansion of air, latent heat is realised causing the air to cool and relative humidity increases. Once the relative humidity reaches 100% small cumulus clouds will begin to develop. Cumulus clouds develop at a height of roughly 1,000m (3,300ft) and can be identified by their flat bases and fluffy, cotton wool like appearance as shown in the photo.

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Cumulus cloud like this does not "come in in great big banks", as he seems to think clouds should. They simply pop up spontaneously as the sun warms the ground and convection occurs. Classic summer weather here in the UK, where Ian lives.
 
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Yes, that particular photo I uploaded to Flicker with a CC license, so people are free to use it non-commercially with attribution.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Mr Simpson threaten legal action against You and this site for quoting and using his material? If so the hypocrisy is galling.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Mr Simpson threaten legal action against You and this site for quoting and using his material? If so the hypocrisy is galling.
Yes. Yes he did.

Ian Simpson - September 5th 2014

This is a legal notice and statement of intent to Metabunk.org / Mick West

I formally demand that Mick West, or any other person, including the owner of the site, any employee and any members who posts on that website, remove any content that includes, or refers to, anything I have published. I also request that any comments pertaining to anything I have published also be removed, as I consider them to be slanderous and untrue, and designed specifically and intentionally to be used to denigrate, undermine, poke fun, and generally discredit myself, my work and my research and investigations.

You do not have my permission to use any material posted on my personal Facebook account, my look-up.org.uk Facebook page, or my look-up.org.uk website, or indeed reproduce in any way any other content from any forum I may use, or be featured in. I retain full copyright of all my material with specific reference to you, your organisation and your members.
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"Do as I say, not as I do".
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Mr Simpson threaten legal action against You and this site for quoting and using his material? If so the hypocrisy is galling.
I left my address details on here and Mr Simpson has my home telephone number yet I have had no correspondence from him. Max Bliss also has the same.
 
Having had another look at the "Smokers" video, there are a couple of points to raise.

1. The claim of aircraft doing circles and 180 degree turn seems to come from the illusions formed by the relative motions of aircraft crossing the track of the Turkish Airlines aircraft. A perpendicular track gives that illusion.

2. The claim of injecting diesel into exhausts to produce black smoke. Diesel is what teams such as the Red Arrows use to create WHITE smoke. Other colours are created using a dye.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/faqs.cfm

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It's the same pattern you see in creationists who insist on giving presentations at biology conferences or who submit themselves to debates against Bill Nye. They know they have zero understanding of evolution and little more of creationism, and they know they're accomplishing nothing, convincing no one, and doing their movement no good.

And they're proud of all that. They're not there to convince, advance, or accomplish. They're there so they can go home and say they were there. That they sent a "message" or "kept them in the dialog" or some other nebulous nothing.

It is a well known Modus operandi of contrarians everywhere, from creationist to climate change deniers

The technical term is "teach the controversy" (it gives the illusion of equivalency in the science/evidence)

Spread FUD (fear uncertainty doubt) about the science

The tactics were perfected and honed by the tobacco companies - who despite the fact the the science around smoking/cancer was pretty much settled in the late 60's, managed to "teach the controversy" until the early 00's

They then simply moved to another defensive line - the effects of passive smoking

When the sheer weight of the data is against you - doubt the data, question the scientific methods

FUD is their stock in trade - teach the controversy, where in realty there is none
 
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Ian Simpson doesn't know how contrails work AND he doesn't know how powerpoint works! Start the damn slideshow!! :p
Not to mention that he brought a presentation with 51 slides (plus video) to give a 15 minute talk. Rookie mistake!

Seriously, the complete lack of organization or preparation for this much-heralded presentation is almost insulting by itself... besides the fact that he's effectively telling an audience of scientists that they're either ignorant, incompetent, or complicit in a vast criminal conspiracy.
 
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