Air, Weather, and Climate History Blog
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 [email protected]
2 pm colloquium at MISU — Host Michael Tjernström [email protected]
Tuesday 25 March in Bergen, Norway
TBA — Host Gunnar Ellingsen [email protected]
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.”