Kind of reductive that the headline is "Chemtrials are not real or causing foods", but the linked website points out that contrails are real, and
Current models indicate that persistent contrail clouds could have a small net warming effect.
And considering that climate change is considered a contributing factor to floods...
Additionally, one of the leading conspiracy theories related to the floods is about cloud seeding, not chemtrails. And, while cloud seeding is real (and has happened in south-central Texas), it did not cause the Texas floods.
So yes, the headline is technically correct, but there's a lot of additional context that I feel like they're skipping over.
That's fair, but my point is that the NYT headline/article seems to be so simplified that it almost becomes contradictory. For example, you quoted this bit
But later in the article it also says
So there is a company that is effectively "spraying chemicals in the sky" with the express intent of "leading to rain falling". Again, I realize that is very different from the "chemtrail" conspiracy theory, but that nuance could have been handled so much better.
I much prefer the phrasing of the AP article's headline that I linked earlier: "No, weather modification did not cause the deadly flash floods in Texas."