Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
James Rodger Fleming
Paper, 344 pages, 43 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14413-1
$19.95
/ £14.00
August, 2010
Cloth, 344 pages, 43 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14412-4
$27.95
/ £19.95
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Stories of Control
2. Rain Makers
3. Rain Fakers
4. Foggy Thinking
5. Pathological Science
6. Weather Warriors
7. Fears, Fantasies, and Possibilities of Control
8. The Climate Engineers
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Related Subjects
Series
About the Author
James Rodger Fleming is a historian of science and technology and professor of science, technology, and society at Colby College. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), elected "for pioneering studies on the history of meteorology and climate change and for the advancement of historical work within meteorological societies," and a fellow at the American Meteorological Society. He recently held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution and the AAAS Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship while a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He enjoys fishing, good jazz, good barbecue, seeing students flourish, building a community of historians of the geosciences, and connecting the history of science and technology with public policy.
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