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James Rodger Fleming Fixing the Sky (Hardback) (US IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Fixing the Sky
- Title
- Fixing the Sky
- Subtitle
- The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
- ISBN-10
- 0231144121
- EAN
- 9780231144124
- ISBN
- 9780231144124
- Release Year
- 2010
- Release Date
- 02/09/2010
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Genre
- Science Nature & Math
- Series
- Columbia Studies in International and Global History
- Topic
- Technology & Engineering
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Fixing the Sky: the Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Subject
- Geography & Geosciences, Science
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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As 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 by 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, today's climate engineers wildly exaggerate what is possible. Scarcely considering the political, military, and ethical implications of managing the world's climate, these individuals hatch schemes with potential consequences that far outweigh anything their predecessors might have faced. Showing what can happen when fixing the sky becomes a dangerous experiment in pseudoscience, James 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 1830s, 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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Columbia University Press
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9780231144124
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Fixing the Sky: the Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
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Hardcover
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English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, Science
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
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Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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United States
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