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Fixing the Sky – The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control: Columbia Studies in International and Global History

Autor James Fleming
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ISBN-13: 9780231144131
ISBN-10: 023114413X
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 151 x 226 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Columbia Studies in International and Global History


Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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.