Air’s Invisibility Fuels Conspiracy Politics

Because air is unseen and technically complex, people project agency and intent onto weather and climate phenomena, a pattern with roots in 17th‑century debates over vacuum and aether. This predisposition makes modern claims about weather manipulation unusually sticky and resistant to fact‑checking. — Designing climate and geoengineering policy must account for perception gaps around invisible systems that invite agency‑projection and backlash.