Atmosphere

The year 1957 marked a sea change in the transition from meteorology to atmospheric science and from charismatic leadership to committee work, corporate organization and state sponsorship.

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Upcoming lectures:

Friday 21 March in Manchester, UK
1:00 PM, Simon Building, Lecture Theatre D, University of Manchester
Jim Fleming, “In Transit: From Meteorology to Atmospheric Science”

Monday 24 March in Stockholm, Sweden
9 am to 1 pm workshop at KTH — Host Nina Cyrén Wormbs nina.wormbs@abe.kth.se

2 pm colloquium at MISU — Host Michael Tjernström michaelt@misu.su.se

Tuesday 25 March in Bergen, Norway
TBA — Host Gunnar Ellingsen gunnar.ellingsen@ahkr.uib.no

Fleming quoted in a front page article in LA Times on March 5, 2014: “Climate engineering ideas no longer considered pie in the sky,” http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-climate-engineering-20140305,0,3602250.story#ixzz2v7PEHvt2

“I have seen all kinds of proposals,” said James Fleming, author of “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control” and a member of the National Academy geo-engineering committee. “There is a crazy new one in my email every week,” he said. “There are a lot of Rube Goldbergs out there, and some Dr. Strangeloves.”

Jim Fleming

A Brief History of Weather and Climate Control

Washington Geoengineering Consortium, 2014

videography by Abe Krieger

“Convergence: Atmospheric Science, Technology, and Society, 1900-1960,” Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture, Northwest Pennsylvania Chapter of Sigma Xi and Allegheny College, Oct. 31, 2013.

“Fixing the Sky,” Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Seminar, East Boothbay Harbor, ME, Nov. 15, 2013.

“Artificial Clouds,” presentation at the conference on Sensing Change: Mapping the Climatic Imaginary through Art, Science and History, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2013.

Dissertation defense, external examiner for Angela Long Callahan, “Satellite Meteorology in the Cold War Era: Scientific Coalitions and International Leadership,” Georgia Institute of Technology, Nov. 6, 2013.

Fleming, James R. 2013. “A History of Weather and Climate Control.” Opinion Article, Geoengineering Our Climate Working Paper and Opinion Article Series. Available at:

http://wp.me/p2zsRk-9i

Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.  Japanese edition, Shinobu Onizawa, transl.  Tokyo: Kinokunya, 2012.