James Rodger Fleming
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American historian, writer, and professor of science and technology studies
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James Rodger Fleming's Degrees
- PhD History University of Delaware
- Masters History University of Delaware
- Bachelors History University of Delaware
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Rodger Fleming, is a historian of science and technology, and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus at Colby College, and author of the book Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control.
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Published Works
- Historical perspectives on climate change (1998) (217)
- The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (2009) (139)
- James Fleming, “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control” (2010) (76)
- Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (1990) (72)
- The pathological history of weather and climate modification: Three cycles of promise and hype (2006) (70)
- Joseph Fourier, the 'greenhouse effect', and the quest for a universal theory of terrestrial temperatures (1999) (40)
- Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology (2016) (36)
- The Callendar effect : the life and work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the scientist who established the carbon dioxide theory of climate change (2007) (36)
- UCLA (2019) (36)
- British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (2009) (32)
- Intimate universality : local and global themes in the history of weather and climate (2006) (30)
- Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements (2007) (30)
- Globalizing Polar Science (2010) (29)
- Globalizing polar science : reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical years (2010) (28)
- Historical Essays on Meteorology 1919–1995 (1996) (27)
- Weathering the Storm: Sverre Petterssen, the D-Day Forecast, and the Rise of Modern Meteorology (2001) (27)
- The Callendar effect (2007) (26)
- Radiative Effects of Cirrus Clouds (1974) (24)
- America's Weather Warriors 1814-1985 (1986) (17)
- NOAA (2020) (16)
- Forum: Climate Change and Environmental History (2014) (14)
- Climate Since A.D. 1500 (1992) (12)
- Advancing Polar Research and Communicating Its Wonders: Quests, Questions, and Capabilities of Weather and Climate Studies in International Polar Years (2009) (11)
- Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather. (1996) (11)
- Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable (2014) (11)
- Storms, Strikes, and Surveillance: The U.S. Army Signal Office, 1861-1891 (2000) (10)
- Charles Lyell and climatic change: speculation and certainty (1998) (9)
- Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (2014) (8)
- Climate, Change, History (2014) (8)
- Arrhenius and current climate concerns: Continuity or a 100‐year gap? (1998) (7)
- T. C. Chamberlin and H2O climate feedbacks: A voice from the past (1992) (7)
- THE CARBON DIOXIDE THEORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE: EMERGENCE, ECLIPSE, AND REEMERGENCE, CA. 1850-1950 (1998) (6)
- Historical essays on meteorology, 1919-1995 : the Diamond Anniversary history volume of the American Meteorological Society (1996) (6)
- Sverre Petterssen and the contentious (and momentous) weather forecasts for D-Day. (2004) (6)
- ARTIFACTS: A 1954 Color Painting of Weather Systems as Viewed from a Future Satellite (2007) (5)
- Will Geoengineering Bring Security and Peace? What does History Tell us? (2012) (5)
- Carl-Gustaf Rossby: Theorist, institution builder, bon vivant (2017) (4)
- Healthy Lakes and Vibrant Economies: Linking History, Sense of Place, and Watershed Protection in the Belgrade Lakes Region (2012) (4)
- Material of construction for pharmaceutical and biotechnology processing: Moving into the 21st century (2001) (4)
- T. C. Chamberlin, Climate Change, and Cosmogony (2000) (3)
- Exploiting the variability of aerochrome infrared film (1978) (3)
- Science, Technology, and the Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (1994) (3)
- First Woman (2020) (3)
- Climate, History, Society, Culture: an editorial essay (2010) (3)
- Intimate Climate from Skins to Streets, Soirees to Societies (2006) (2)
- Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in Weather and Climate History (2006) (2)
- "On the Possibilities of Climate Control" in 1962: Harry Wexler on Geoengineering and Ozone Destruction (2007) (2)
- Post-scripting extreme weather (2017) (2)
- Historical Writing on Meteorology: An Annotated Bibliography (1996) (2)
- Iowa Enters the Space Age: James Van Allen, Earth's Radiation Belts, and Experiments to Disrupt Them (2011) (2)
- Cosmic connections: James Croll's influence on his contemporaries and his successors (2021) (2)
- Eight. Planetary-Scale Fieldwork: Harry Wexler on the Possibilities of Ozone Depletion and Climate Control (2020) (1)
- Global Environmental Change and the History of Science (2001) (1)
- John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius, and Early Research on Carbon Dioxide and Climate (1998) (1)
- Dark Clouds at Dawn (2020) (1)
- Telling Lives in Meteorology: A Dialogue between Readers and Writers (2019) (1)
- CIVILIZATION, CLIMATE, AND OZONE (2020) (1)
- Post-scripting extreme weather: Textuality, eventhood, resilience (2017) (1)
- Climate dynamics, science dynamics, and technological change, 1804-2004 (2004) (1)
- Technology and Environmental Determinisms (1997) (1)
- John L. Brooke. Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey. (2015) (1)
- Meteorology at the Smithsonian Institution, 1847–1874: the natural history connection* (1989) (1)
- Historical Overview of Climate Change Science Coordinating Lead (2007) (1)
- Global Warming and Anthropogenic CO2 (2007) (1)
- NASA (2020) (1)
- BIOFILM CONTAMINATION ISSUES IN PHARMACEUTICAL FLUID-HANDLING TUBING (1999) (1)
- Polar and Global Meteorology in the Career of Harry Wexler, 1933–62 (2010) (1)
- Woods Hole (2020) (1)
- Introduction: Rise of Global Scientific Inquiry in the International Polar and Geophysical Years (2010) (1)
- The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. By Deborah R. Coen.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 348. $35.00 (cloth); $7.00–$30.00 (e-book). (2014) (1)
- Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and Climate Engineering (2017) (1)
- Book Review:Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey Hugh Richard Slotten (1995) (1)
- Responding to Climate Change at the Poles: Findings from the National Research Council's Reports on Climate Intervention (2015) (0)
- Mr. Pyke and the Mastery of the Snow (2001) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- 2015 Brooke Review Big History The American Historical Review-2015-Fleming-965.pdf (2015) (0)
- Washington and Honolulu (2001) (0)
- Matthew Mulcahy. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783. (Early America: Context, History, Culture.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 257. $45.00 (2007) (0)
- The Early Years to 1930 (2007) (0)
- Breaking Through (2020) (0)
- Historians probe geophysics in Seattle (1991) (0)
- Bombing and Research (2001) (0)
- A Geophysical Entrepreneur: Appropriating the Weather . Vilheim Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology. Robert Marc Friedman. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1989. xxii, 251 pp., illus. $34.95. (1989) (0)
- Algiers, Tunis, and Bari (2001) (0)
- Overlord: the Postponement (2001) (0)
- The Faith of Romanticism: Dialectical Synthesis and Norman Mailer's English Romantic Vision (2009) (0)
- Tea in the House of Lords (2001) (0)
- A history of weather and climate control (2018) (0)
- University of Virginia (2020) (0)
- A Stab at the Tirpitz (2001) (0)
- William B. Meyer.Americans and Their Weather. x + 278 pp., illus., index. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. $35. (2002) (0)
- A Family Man (2007) (0)
- Using ultrapure plastic tubing (2000) (0)
- Bergen and Beyond (2001) (0)
- Skyscapes and Anti-skyscapes: Making the Invisible Visible (2014) (0)
- Overlord: A Dream and an Awakening (2001) (0)
- Comment on “Long‐Term Global Heating From Energy Use” (2008) (0)
- Breaking Through the Clouds: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere (2018) (0)
- A Passion for Clouds: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere (2017) (0)
- “Message from the Canadian Societies” (1979) (0)
- Overlord: A No-Name Policy (2001) (0)
- Atmospheric Science at NASA (0)
- Battles in the Heavens: Military Metaphors and “Fronts” in the Early Eighteenth Century (1992) (0)
- The Upper-Air Group (2001) (0)
- Predicting and Modifying Space Weather: Weaponizing the Magnetosphere in the Cold War (2013) (0)
- The International Bibliography of Meteorology (2009) (0)
- Book Review:Greenhouse: The Two-Hundred-Year Story of Global Warming Gale E. Christianson (2001) (0)
- Overlord: Planning for Chaos (2001) (0)
- Paul Andrew Mayewski;, Frank White.The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change. Foreword by, Lynn Margulis. xxv + 233 pp., illus., tables, figs., refs., index. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2002. $24.94 (cloth). (2002) (0)
- Technical Information Material of Construction for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Processing : Moving into the 21 st Century (0)
- Students from Colby College and the NASTS 14th Annual Conference (1999) (0)
- At Crossroads in India (2001) (0)
- Meteorology and the Federal Patron: Interactions before AMS and before NSF (2020) (0)
- Climate Discourse Transformed (1998) (0)
- Reconstruction and Travel (2001) (0)
- The Checkered Past of Weather and Climate Control and Its Troubling Prospects (2015) (0)
- Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and Climate Intervention (2021) (0)
- The Path to Hot Towers (2020) (0)
- The Failure of Operation Freshman (2001) (0)
- Historical Perspectives on Intervention in the Atmospheric System: Cautionary Notes (2015) (0)
- Book Review: The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (2009) (0)
- The growth of Strathyre. (1970) (0)
- A Visit by Friends (2001) (0)
- Lawrence Badash.A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s. (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) xiii + 403 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. $40 (cloth). (2011) (0)
- Naples and Anzio (2001) (0)
- Clouds, Hurricanes, and the Tropical Atmosphere: What We Are Learning about the Life and Work of Joanne Gerould/Starr/Malkus/Simpson (2018) (0)
- The Human Dimensions of Science (2018) (0)
- A geophysical entrepreneur: appropriating the weather. (1989) (0)
- Loaned to the British (2001) (0)
- WWBT? What Would Ben Think about Killer Apps, Cutting Edges, and Tipping Points in the History of Weather and Climate? (2006) (0)
- Calling computers names in Swedish (2017) (0)
- The Minor for All Majors: STS and the Liberal Arts at Colby College (1998) (0)
- To England via Newfoundland (2001) (0)
- Calming the waters around Santa Barbara (2009) (0)
- Overlord: Approach to D-Day (2001) (0)
- ES 118 Environment and Society (1992) (0)
- Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650–1820 (2002) (0)
- In the Grip of the Arctic (2001) (0)
- Jan Golinski. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 284. $35.00 (2009) (0)
- Book Review:Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defence and General Welfare. Volume III: 1904-1939 Mary C. Rabbitt (1987) (0)
- Reply [to “Comment on ‘Arrhenius and current concerns: Continuity or a 100-year gap?’”] (1999) (0)
- Chicago (2020) (0)
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