Fixing the sky
Subtitle: the checkered history of weather and climate control
By: James Rodger Fleming
Series: Columbia studies in international and global history
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780231144124; 9780231513067
Subjects: History; Effect of human beings on; Weather control; Nature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Stories of control; title: Rain makers; title: Rain fakers; title: Foggy thinking; title: Pathological science; title: Weather warriors; title: Fears, fantasies, and possibilities of control; title: The climate engineers.