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Category : Weather control
Languages : en
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Proceedings of the Seventh Interagency Conference on Weather Modification, September 30 - October 1, 1965, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Author: A Recommended National Program in Weather Modification
Author: Homer Edward NewellPublisher:
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Category : Weather control
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Interagency Conference on Weather Modification, October 27-30, 1970, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Author: Make It Rain
Author: Kristine C. HarperPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659792X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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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.
Proceedings of the Tenth Interagency Conference on Weather Modification, October 16-October 18, 1968, Skyland, Virginia
Author: Proceedings of the Eleventh Interagency Conference on Weather Modification, October 15-October 17, 1969, Skyland, Virginia
Author: Proceedings of the Ninth Interagency Conference on Weather Modification, October 25-October 27, 1967, Skyland, Virginia
Author: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Interagency Conference on Weather Modification, October 12-15, 1971, Skyland, Virginia
Author: Report of the Skyline Conference on the Design and Conduct of Experiments in Weather Modification
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Experimental design
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Weather Modification Proceedings of the First National Conference, April 28-May 1, 1968
Author: National Conference on Weather Modification, 1st (Albany, N.Y., 1968)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
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