Atmosphere

http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14412-4/fixing-the-sky

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Jan. 17-21, Potsdam, Germany, Pictur(e)ing Climate

Jan. 22-26, New Orleans, American Meteorological Society, Harry Wexler lecture, book award

Feb. 2-3, Boston, Colby Trustees

April 5-6, Grinnell College, Iowa, “Fixing the Sky.”

April 25-27, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, “Fixing the Sky.”

May 8, MIT, Cambridge, MA, “Fixing the Sky.”

May 13-17, Mainz, Germany, Geoengineering

June 25-29, Manchester, UK, Cold War/ Blue Planet

June 30-July 4, Research in London

July 5-6, London, Anglo-American IHR, Ancients and Moderns

July 13, Fort Collins, Colorado State University 50th anniversary of atmospheric science, banquet speaker

Oct. 4-7, Copenhagen, Denmark, SHOT

Nov. 15-18, San Diego, HSS

Fixing the Sky interview on the radio.

History for the Future, WRCT-Pittsburgh, http://www.historyforthefuture.org/wordpress/?p=903

James Rodger Fleming, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control (Columbia University Press, 2010) has received best book prizes from both the Society for the History of Technology and the American Meteorological Society.  Here are the details: Read more »

Sept. 9-11, New Haven, CT: Geoengineering conference at Yale University
Sept. 15-18, Paris, France: Conference on climate knowledge and politics, XVIII-XX C
Sept. 30-Oct. 2, Orlando, FL: DARPA/NASA meeting, 100-year Starship
Oct. 6-12, Washington, DC: Research
Oct. 13-15, Pittsburgh, PA: University Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University
Oct. 29-30, New York City: Media event on geoengineering science and science fiction
Oct. Nov. 3-6, Cleveland, OH: History of Science Society and Society for the History of Technology
Nov. 9-12, Hamburg, Germany: Workshop on geoengineering at University of Hamburg
Nov. 18, Orono, ME: Seminar in marine science at University of Maine-Orono

What: University of Washington, Seattle, Atmospheric Science Seminar
Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control

3:30-5:30 pm in Johnson 102 on the University of Washington Campus

Free and open to the public.

How the USSR Tried to Melt the Arctic, GIZMODO (2010)

Radio and Podcast Interview with Mark Lynch on WICN “Inquiry,”
James Rodger Fleming:
FIXING THE SKY: THE CHECKERED HISTORY OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE CONTROL.

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“Fixing the Sky,” at the Wilson Center.

1. Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN), chair of the House Science and Technology Committee just released a report, Engineering the Climate: Research Needs and Strategies for International Collaboration. Press release here…

2. The Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) also has released one of its two studies, CLIMATE CHANGE: A Coordinated Strategy Could Focus Federal Geoengineering Research and Inform Governance Efforts

3. The Congressional Research Service also has some reports, International Governance of Geoengineering AND Congressional Research Service,
Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy