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From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_paragliding Due to the paramotor's slow forward speed, it must not be flown in conditions of high wind, turbulence, or intense thermal activity. Sounds rather non-ideal for trying to enter a jet contrail, to me. Here is a list of...

That URL is a troubling trend. The Finance pages of Yahoo will be seen (rightly or wrongly) as a "reputable source". But in fact this is just a paid press release put out by PR Newswire and reposted by Yahoo.

I commute by bicycle, and on autumn evenings I can certainly confirm there are loads of spider webs drifting around. On a typical 5 mile journey I usually feel at least half a dozen go across my face, which at this time of year is about the only exposed skin!

This is just about the most blatant and unpleasant one I have seen. Reported to FB, I suggest others do likewise.

So, not content with using photoshopped pictures to promote his chemtrail hoax, Dane now uses a photo taken more than six years before the Tohoku earthquake to promote his Fukushima scare stories. I think we just need a sticky thread entitled "Latest misleading images from...

The government won't physically stop the flights, but if there is a Foreign Office "do not travel" warning in place, then tourists' holiday insurance won't cover them, they won't travel, and there will be nobody on the flights. So the government's action effectively stops the flights...

Yes, very useful. It surprises me that the wide availability of flight tracking websites and apps hasn't done more to kill off the chemtrail myth. You'd think that the ability to easily identify the planes leaving trails in the sky as familiar commercial airliners would have a huge impact, but...

Canal clouds are essentially the same as fallstreak holes, but elongated. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.279/pdf

I assume you mean Nov 2? As for the altitude, I was under the impression that these "canal clouds" were formed by planes much lower than cruising altitude. That appears to be altocumulus, which is typically below 20,000 feet. (Fallstreak clouds also form in cirrocumulus, which is higher, but I...

According to this, the altitude record is 29,494 feet, not 24,898 feet as they claim. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6666889.stm A British Everest summiteer has become the first man to fly higher than the top of the world in a powered paraglider. Bear Grylls, who at the age of 23 became the...

The CPUK page has now been updated (although it still seems to be broken, with images and style sheets not working) Update (4th November 2011) [sic] This article has been subjected to a ‘debunking’ attempt by metabunk – with one or more of their members also posting in our comments section...

Thanks @Trailspotter, I should have thought to tag you for Russian translation! This Bleen thing reminds me of the promo videos for Magic Leap, an augmented reality company that is seeking funding. While not quite as misleading as Bleen (and Magic Leap has some serious investors and appears to...

Does anyone know anything more about this man? I found him in this YouTube video, but I don't speak Russian. Translated description: "Holographic TV system" project Titar, Vladimir Petrovich Laboratory of radio and optical holography KNU VN Karazin Tel .: 38 (057) 705-23-95 No...

I left a few (fairly polite) comments on there. Currently "awaiting moderation", although to be fair it is the middle of the night in the UK. Edit: the comments are being published, which is at least something. It does allow an insight into Hodgskiss's confusion over what SRM is intended to do...

I think @Mick West found a bit of back story on the pilot.

Great, so when do you make your first billion? Can I buy shares? If so, why? :) You missed my point. Yes, technology means we can get better efficiency. It doesn't mean we can suddenly bin the laws of thermodynamics and declare the Nikola Tesla Free Lunch Canteen open for business. Hell, I...

It was pretty clear to me from context what they meant by the "uncontrolled experiment", but I wasn't aware that it was such a stock phrase in climate science, until Mick pointed it out. So yes, emailing them probably wasn't strictly necessary, but I think when somebody claims "Person X said...

Yes, I think a lot of them have the attitude that "We can go from 75% efficient to 90% efficient - we just need to get the same efficiency improvement again and we'll be over unity!" Sadly it doesn't work like that.

This line alone is clearly nonsense. If the input was "60% against output", then how would the machines be expensive? You would be getting 100/60 = 1.67 times as much energy out as you were putting in. That in itself would be a miracle and make you rich and famous, if it were true. If they...

Well actually it was trivially easy. Both Lenton's and Pritchard's email addresses can be found with a quick Google search. I sent a brief email enquiry today and both of them responded within an hour or so. So why did none of those self-professed "truth seekers" at CPUK bother to get a response...