All the crap aside people are correct in feeling the amount of ambient contrails and cirrus clouds are increased within their lifetime. They see contrails in climatic conditions and in areas of the country where they were rare in years past. The rate of cloud seeding is on a dramatic increase and climatic research is on the increase. Military and the Forest Service use of Chaff has made news services when they were ignored before. People are spooked . . . they don't understand and the simply don't trust the government.

There are a lot more planes in the air and flight paths than when I was a kid. That's because there are a lot more people. More planes means more contrails. But I guess that's just too simple and logical to be considered.