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"Current hopes for a technological answer to global warming are not an altogether new quest; they echo a rich history of attempts to work upon the weather James Rodger Fleming explores this history thoroughly, parading a colorful variety of scientists, visionaries, and charlatans who reveal important lessons about our past---ami possible future."---Spencer Weart Author of The Disccover of Global Warning "James Rodger Fleming’s book is a kind of tour de folie, an authoritative recounting over two centuries of weather changers and climate controllers, rainmakers and rain fakers and cloud seeders and fog dissolvers. All in all, an engrossing work about vain hopes and technological hubris---as well as a cautionary tale to anyone concerned with attempts to engineer the planet" ---Dan Keyles Yale University "Fixing the Sky will appeal to a broad audience and is a significant contribution to both the ongoing policy debate over geoengineering and the history of meteorology and climatology, on which James Rodger Fleming is a recognized authority."---Mott Greene University of Puget Sound "With humanity’s planetary impact reaching a Richter scale equivalent, what seem to be quick fixes become exceedingly tempting. Fixing the Sky’s historical insights are a revelation---an anchor and essential base from which to consider addressing the greatest challenge in the history of our species."---Thomas E Love Joy George Mason University And the John Heinz III Center For Science Economics And The Environment A alarm over global warming spreads, a redical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue, Instead. bounce sunlight back into space by pumping reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into orbit around the Earth Make clouds thicker and brighter to create a "planctary thermostal." 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, today’s climate engineers wildly exaggerate what is possible. Scarecly considering the political. military, and ethical implications of managing the world’s climate, these individuals hatch schemes with potential consequences that far outweight anything their predcessors might have faced. Showing what can happen when fixing the sky becomes dangerous experiment in pseudoscience. James Rodger Fleming traces the tragicomic history of the rainmakers, rain fakfers, weather warriors, and climate engineers who have been both full of ideas and full of themselves. Weaving together stories from clile science, cutting edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the 180s, drought in the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since the 1940s. Killer hurricanes, ozone depletion, and global warming fuel the fantasies of today, Based on archival and primary research, Fleming’s original story speaks to anyone who has a stake in sustaining the planet |
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