Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control
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Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control
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The work Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control
- Title remainder
- the checkered history of weather and climate control
- Statement of responsibility
- James Rodger Fleming
- Title variation
- Checkered history of weather and climate control
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- As the alarm over global warming spreads, radical ideas are taking hold: if cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient, let's use reflective nanoparticles to bounce sunlight directly into space or launch mirrors into orbit around the earth. We could make clouds thicker and brighter or surround Arctic sea ice with a huge plastic flotilla. Yet while these proposals seem edgy and exciting, they often test the limits of scientific possibility and overlook the political, ethical, and social consequences of climate management. Revisiting over a century of efforts at weather and climat
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- digitized
- Awards note
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- Society for the History of Technology, Sally Hacker Prize Winner, 2011.
- American Meteorological Society, Louis J. Battan Author's Award Winner, 2011.
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- Dewey number
- 551.68
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- QC928
- LC item number
- .F54 2010eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NAL call number
- QC928
- NAL item number
- .F58 2010
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Columbia studies in international and global history
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