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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.

And, nearer the horizon, white clouds on dark sky. On the same side of you as the sun. A nice illustration that shadows are not always intuitive.

He also stated: And look where that led (among other insults and name-calling). (I hope this isn't considered "ridicule"; it is simply meant to show the hypocrisy.)

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...

How do you reconcile your claims of "cloud seeding" with "jet streams" that "expand and turn into clouds"? Cloud seeding does not mean creating clouds. It means making clouds drop their moisture as rain, therefore tending to disperse the clouds. I have never seen jet trails produce rain clouds...

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...

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...

Indeed. Both fluorescence and fluorine (and therefore fluoride etc) take their names from fluorite. And fluorite gets its name from the Latin fluo (flow), because of its use as a flux in smelting. Fluorite was named long before the words fluorescence or fluorine were coined. (Incidentally pure...

Continuing the sidetrack, zinc cadmium sulfide is fluorescent by itself. You don't need to add anything, radioactive or not, to make it fluoresce. (And no, fluorescence doesn't mean it contains fluoride! ;) )

Nothing at all to do with contrails. And misrepresented. The spraying of cadmium sulfide was not to test the health effects of the compound (which is a well-studied compound, used as a tattoo pigment). It was to study wind dispersal patterns to provide data in case of a real chemical or...

Not related to Sandy Hook, but a web search I just did shows how timestamps are not to be relied on, unless I am getting news from the future!

I've rotated and skewed the two views to match as closely as possible, and lightened the shadows. It's pretty clear that the "cloud" features" are there in the terrain.

It is quite an effective illusion. I wonder what accounts for the distinct impression of a "shadow"? There doesn't seem to be any obvious feature in this area on the other imagery.

[Admin: Thread split from https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-look-up-org-uk-alleged-spray-pipes-on-a-320-are-pylon-drains.2855/page-7 ] This is the poster that Ian Simpson will be presenting at the Cambridge SRM conference. http://www.look-up.org.uk/cambridge-srm-poster/ The small...

"A 50 cal would easily reach the scumbags"? Good luck with that! While a rifle bullet would have very little chance of reaching a plane at contrail altitude, it could certainly cause a lot of damage when it fell back to Earth. In experimental firings by U.S. military ballistic researchers in...

It would be interesting to know just how thick the cloud has to be before it ceases to be "sunny" for the purposes of detection. Looking out of my office window now it is sunny, but a good proportion of the sky is actually covered with contrails of various ages. So the sun varies between full...

These sunshine figures are now available on graphs going back to the beginning of the records since 1929: UK winter sunshine, up to 2014/15: UK annual sunshine, up to 2014: Link to data: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/actualmonthly The period from the 1960s to the...

Total false equivalence. Controlling a rover on Mars just requires enough of a radio signal to reach it that the on-board computer can detect and identify. The actual rover is driven by a generator powered by plutonium. How can you possibly compare sending a radio wave to control a rover with...

We often hear the claim that blue skies and sunshine are a thing of the past because of "chemtrails" (the claim is sometimes made even by those who accept that the trails in the sky are simply contrails). Is this true? It appears not, at least in the UK, which sees plenty of air traffic and...

That funny looking plane in pic 7? We get lots of red kites around here, they had disappeared due to being shot/poisoned by farmers mostly, but they were reintroduced some years ago and have been very successful. I've never managed to get a decent photo of one though! And yes, it has been very...