[Columbia Studies in International and Global History 01] • Fixing the Sky by Fleming, James Rodger -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY Title Page Epigraph PREFACE Acknowledgements Introduction 1 - STORIES OF CONTROL

Phaethon’s Blunder The Mandan Rainmakers Leavers and Takers Science Fiction Jules Verne and the Baltimore Gun Club Mark Twain: Controlling the Climate and Selling It A Comedic Western Rock the Earth Tales of the Rainmakers Sky King and the Indian Rainmaker Porky Pig and Donald Duck

2 - RAIN MAKERS

Scientific Revolutions “de l’air” Great Fires and Artificial Volcanoes Eliza Leslie’s “Rain King” Cannon and Bells War and the Weather A Perfect Imitation of Battle

3 - RAIN FAKERS

At War with the Clouds Hurricane Cannon Kansas and Nebraska Rainmakers “An Unfortunate Rain-maker” Charles Hatfield, the “Moisture Accelerator” Betting on the Weather Seeding the American West Deadly Orgone Provaqua

4 - FOGGY THINKING

Electrical Methods Electrified Sand Round 1: Dayton, Ohio Round 2: Aberdeen and Bolling Round 3: Hartford, Connecticut The Business of “Rainmaking” Fog Research at MIT FIDO: A Brute-Force Method of Fog Dispersal First Successful Tests FIDO Becomes Operational The Aftermath of FIDO The Airs of the Future

5 - PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Blowing Smoke Liquid and Solid Carbon Dioxide The Rainmaker of Yore GE Tells the World Threat of Litigation Project Cirrus Hurricane King Silver Iodide The New Mexico Seedings A Pathological Passion Commercial Cloud Seeding Disasters

6 - WEATHER WARRIORS

Weather in Wars and Battles Science and the Military Meteorology and the Military Cold War Cloud Seeding Military Research Public Perceptions Project Stormfury Cloud Seeding in Indochina ENMOD: Prohibiting Environmental Modification as a Weapon of War

7 - FEARS, FANTASIES, AND POSSIBILITIES OF CONTROL

Fears Fantasies Popularizations Hurricane Control Soviet Fantasies Warming the Arctic Rehydrating and Powering Africa Space Mirrors and Dust Bombs Away Harry Wexler and the Possibilities of Climate Control Cutting a Hole in the Ozone Layer

8 - THE CLIMATE ENGINEERS

What Is Geoengineering? Terraforming and Beyond Ethical Consequences Protection, Prevention, and Production Climate Leverage National Academy, 1992 A Naval Rifle System Ocean Iron Fertilization Artificial Trees or Lackner Towers Recycling Ideas A Royal Society Smoke Screen Field Tests? The Middle Course

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