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| Title: | Fixing the sky the checkered history of weather and climate control |
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James Rodger Fleming
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| Person: |
Fleming, James Rodger
1949- Verfasser aut |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York
Columbia Univ. Press
2010
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| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 325 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 24 cm |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
χι
Preface
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
ι
1
Stories of Control
15
2
Rain Makers
49
3
Rain Fakers
77
4
Foggy Thinking
109
5
Pathological Science
137
I Weather Warriors
165
7
Fears, Fantasies, and Possibilities of Control
189
8
The Climate Engineers
125
Notes 26c
Bibliography
287
Index
¡11
s
alarm over global warming spreads,
a radical idea is gaining momentum.
Forget cuts in greenhouse gas
emissions, some scientists argue.
Instead, bounce sunlight back into
space bv pumping reflective nanoparticles
into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into
orbit around the Earth. Make clouds
thicker and brighter to create a planetary
thermostat.
These ideas might sound like science
fiction, but in fact they are part of a
very old story. For more than a century,
scientists, soldiers, and charlatans
have tried to manipulate weather and
climate, and like them, todays climate
engineers wildly exaggerate what is
possible. Scarcely considering the political,
military, and ethical implications ot
managing the world s climate, these
individuals hatch schemes with potential
consequences that far outweigh anything
their predecessors might have
iacea.
Showing what can happen when fixing
the sky becomes a dangerous experiment
in
pseudoscience,
(ames
Rodger Fleming
traces the tragicomic history of the
rainmakers, rain fakers, weather warriors,
and climate engineers who have been
both full of ideas and full of themselves.
Weaving together stories from elite
science, cutting-edge technology, and
popular culture, Fleming examines issues
of health and navigation in the ii
drought in the uSyos, aircraft safety in the
1930s,
and world conflict since the
1940s.
Killer hurricanes, ozone depletion, and
global warming fuel the fantasies ot today.
Based on archival and primary research,
Fleming s original storv speaks to anyone
who has a stake in sustaining the planet.
JAMES RODGER FLEMING is a historian
ol science anil technology and
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Institution and the AAAS Roger
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building a community of historians ol the
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