This is an angry working class conservative

[JDPriestly]

17. What is your answer?

It's a real problem. People feel angry. They aren't sure why, but they sense something is wrong. They hear something on talk radio that sounds like an explanation, and they fall for it.

To take a topic that isn't political, every once in a while I run into someone who believes that "chemtrails" are some sort of conspiracy. I remember seeing what they refer to as a chemtrail way back when in the Iowa sky, long before we had so much air traffic. Where does the idea that chemtrails are some sort of horrible thing come from? From talk radio. And the idea that climate change is a hoax also comes from the media.

How do you present facts to people so that they understand them and form their opinions based on them?

Any ideas?

As for chemtrails:

Due to the popularity of the conspiracy theory, official agencies have received thousands of complaints from people who have demanded an explanation.[1][2] The existence of chemtrails has been repeatedly denied by scientists around the world, who say the trails are normal contrails.[3] The United States Air Force states that the theory is a hoax which "has been investigated and refuted by many established and accredited universities, scientific organizations, and major media publications."[4] The United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has stated that chemtrails are not scientifically recognized phenomena.[5]

The term chemtrail is a portmanteau of the words "chemical" and "trail," just as contrail is a contraction of "condensation trail." The term does not refer to other forms of aerial spraying such as agricultural spraying ('crop dusting'), cloud seeding, skywriting, or aerial firefighting.[6] The term specifically refers to aerial trails allegedly caused by the systematic high-altitude release of chemical substances not found in ordinary contrails, resulting in the appearance of characteristic sky tracks. Supporters of this conspiracy theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be for solar radiation management, population control,[1] weather control,[2] or biological warfare/chemical warfare and that these trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.[7][8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory

As an aside, I have been assured by someone who works with scientists who study climate change that the chemtrail paranoia is the real hoax and that climate change is real although scientists are still trying to figure out how fast it will proceed and find the best ways to deal with it.