Author: United States. Advisory Committee on Weather Control
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Category : Weather control
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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First Interim Report, Advisory Committee on Weather Control
Author: United States. Advisory Committee on Weather Control
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Category : Weather control
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
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Category : Weather control
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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First Interim Report
Author: United States. Advisory Committee on Weather Control
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Weather Control
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Category : Rain-making
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Rain-making
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Weather Control
Author: United States. Advisory Committee on Weather Control
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Category : Rain-making
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Category : Rain-making
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 1788
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Languages : en
Pages : 1788
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Make It Rain
Author: Kristine C. Harper
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659792X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
Advisory Committee on Weather Control; Department of Agriculture; Central Intelligence Agency Building; Department of Commerce; District of Columbia; Export-Import Bank of Washington; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Department of the Interior; President's Committee on Education beyond the High School; Treasury Department. Pt. 2. Bureau of the Budget; Commission on Government Security; General Services Administration; Housing and Home Finance Agency; National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; National Science Foundation; President's Special International Program; State Department; the judiciary; U.S. Information Agency
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Report
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2578
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2578
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Reports and Documents
Author: United States. Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
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