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Author : William Jackson Humphreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UIUC:30112045866289
Author : William Jackson Humphreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UOM:39015064378618
Author : Kristine C. Harper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226597928
Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with interest by all, regardless of political or scientific persuasion. But between the late nineteenth century—when the United States first funded an attempt to “shock” rain out of clouds—and the late 1940s, rainmaking (as it had been known) became weather control. And then things got out of control. In Make It Rain, Kristine C. Harper tells the long and somewhat ludicrous history of state-funded attempts to manage, manipulate, and deploy the weather in America. Harper shows that governments from the federal to the local became helplessly captivated by the idea that weather control could promote agriculture, health, industrial output, and economic growth at home, or even be used as a military weapon and diplomatic tool abroad. Clear fog for landing aircraft? There’s a project for that. Gentle rain for strawberries? Let’s do it! Enhanced snowpacks for hydroelectric utilities? Check. The heyday of these weather control programs came during the Cold War, as the atmosphere came to be seen as something to be defended, weaponized, and manipulated. Yet Harper demonstrates that today there are clear implications for our attempts to solve the problems of climate change.
Author : United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : IND:30000096965300
Author : U.S. Office of Experiment Stations,United States. Agricultural Research Service,United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : UOM:39015075063068
Author : Martin Mahony,Samuel Randalls
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822987550
As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and Geographical Imagination contributes to this conversation by bringing together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate. The volume develops the concept of “geographical imagination” to address the intersecting forces of scientific knowledge, cultural politics, bodily experience, and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate.
Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496232595
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment . . . constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered." This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design.
Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Rain-making
ISBN : OSU:32435070166244
Author : U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on National Water Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063853448
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on National Water Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1774 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : ERDC:35925002296462
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on National Water Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : MINN:31951D036712696
Author : Resources for the Future,United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on National Water Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Water consumption
ISBN : UCBK:C051599013
Author : United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : CHI:40019921
Author : James Rodger Fleming
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231513067
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.
Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803297025
A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers
