Are jet contrails the latest threat?
Dear Cecil: Just when I thought that all I had to worry about was the Pakistanis with a nuke, I receive a letter telling me that jet contrails are killing me! The letter referred me to this site: contrailconnection.com. I was aghast! I knew a bad set of entrails could mess you up, like eating a bloated buffalo, but now contrails? — F., via the Internet I tell you, these days it’s hard to keep up. Even I, world’s smartest human, was only vaguely aware of the contrail menace. Not anymore, boy. If you thought fluoridated water was bad, wait till you get a load of this. Contrails, short for condensation trails, are those long white lines in the sky that sometimes stream out behind jet aircraft. They’re formed when jet exhaust or wingtip vortices precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air. Or so they’d have you believe. But check out these firsthand reports from the Contrail Connection site: • “On my honeymoon in Smokey Mountain National Park. The weather was pictu
