Make It Rain : : State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America / / Kristine C. Harper.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chicago : : University of Chicago Press,, [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Weather Control: Scientific Fringe to Scientific Mainstream (1890- 1950)
- Part II. Coming to Grips with Weather Control (1950- 1957)
- Part III. Weather Control as State Tool (1957- 1980)
- Conclusion: Weather Control and the American State
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index