No Longer A Traitor Part I

Walking to the curb dragging two trash cans behind me for morning pick up,I began to have an emotional breakdown. I had just finished my junior fall semester and it ended in disaster. I wrote a paper about global warming and highlighted several factors that helped to inflate the warming statistics that were being presented by the IPCC.
In my argument I cited that several weather stations across the country had been placed in the wrong spots to accurately reflect atmospheric temperature of the area. I highlighted a 1996 report from the NWS, when Congress cut funding for weather service offices at major airports, that the temperature sensor at BWI Airport had been taking the temperature of the runway instead of the temperature in the field. My second concern is that the temperature sensors were not reflective of the local landscape ecology. For example weather stations are generally placed in an open field. This was standard practice in the early days of recording weather observations. Most of the Eastern US did not have tree's in the 1920's. The landscape was mostly grasslands, only after the New Deal were most of the tree's that we see today planted. I couldn't understand how this type of rational logical thought process could get me blackballed. I always thought that one presents an argument with facts and backs them up with new ideas as to the root causes and potential effects to a situation. I found out early in life that this type of analysis leads to blackballing and an entire aggrivated emotional response from core believers of "dis-information".
As I was walking the trash to the curb I broke down into tears and started praying and asking God why did my cousin's husband call me an extremely special person? Why did he take him from me? He meant a lot to me as we discussed politics and the economy in a "no spin" zone.
I was forecasting 2-4" of surprise snow that night on January 3,2002 and watching the radars closely. I stayed up the entire night waiting for the snow to arrive, except it didn't quite make it. At about 6am I hopped in my car bought some donuts from Arundel Donuts and headed south until I found snow. I drove almost down to Waldorf,MD. The road conditions were bad there and I had to turn around and start to come home. On the way I home I was watching the clouds begin to lift in areas where it had been snowing heavily 15 minutes prior. I thought this was odd when I saw the sun come through the clouds. I looked up and saw a plane going through the clouds leaving behind a contrail. After that contrail had been laid for a couple of minutes the clouds completely cleared below the contrail. A few minutes later another plane doing the same thing had left another clear swath through the clouds. Something didn't make sense, but I was devastated, I was burned out,I didn't get my snow and I thought God was mad at me.
A couple of days later I was telling my mom about what I saw and she told me that she saw on Channel 13 Baltimore a local man that was describing the same thing I had seen except with a rain storm a few months earlier. She told me the story of how he contacted Andrews Air Force Base during an operation. The first air force spokesperson he came in contact with told him it was for military operations. When he called back another spokesperson said the person he had talked to didn't exist. Somewhere in the back of my mind said,"The USAF stole your snow."
My Internet search revealed something called "chemtrails". I didn't understand what they were or how they operated, or how to tell them apart from ordinary contrails. I thought at the time if it was a real phenomena that I am bright enough to figure out how they work and how they affect the weather. I'm a third year Physics student, it's not going to be that difficult.