Author: Jamie Zerndt
Publisher: Jamie Zerndt
ISBN: 1478209151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"Jamie Zerndt has created an all too believable world that could well be ripped from the headlines just a couple of decades from now. The Cloud Seeders is thoughtful, thought-provoking, and solidly entertaining. Highly recommended." -Midwest Book Review SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, CONSERVE YOUR WATER, OBSERVE YOUR NEIGHBOR After nearly twelve months without rain and the hinges of the world barely still oiled, Thomas and his younger brother, Dustin, set out across a drought-ridden landscape in search of answers. What they discover along the way will change their lives, and their country, forever. The Cloud Seeders weaves humor and heartache, as well as poetry and science, into a unique novel that defies categorization. Water is good. Water is great...
The Cloud Seeders
Author: Jamie Zerndt
Publisher: Jamie Zerndt
ISBN: 1478209151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"Jamie Zerndt has created an all too believable world that could well be ripped from the headlines just a couple of decades from now. The Cloud Seeders is thoughtful, thought-provoking, and solidly entertaining. Highly recommended." -Midwest Book Review SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, CONSERVE YOUR WATER, OBSERVE YOUR NEIGHBOR After nearly twelve months without rain and the hinges of the world barely still oiled, Thomas and his younger brother, Dustin, set out across a drought-ridden landscape in search of answers. What they discover along the way will change their lives, and their country, forever. The Cloud Seeders weaves humor and heartache, as well as poetry and science, into a unique novel that defies categorization. Water is good. Water is great...
Publisher: Jamie Zerndt
ISBN: 1478209151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"Jamie Zerndt has created an all too believable world that could well be ripped from the headlines just a couple of decades from now. The Cloud Seeders is thoughtful, thought-provoking, and solidly entertaining. Highly recommended." -Midwest Book Review SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, CONSERVE YOUR WATER, OBSERVE YOUR NEIGHBOR After nearly twelve months without rain and the hinges of the world barely still oiled, Thomas and his younger brother, Dustin, set out across a drought-ridden landscape in search of answers. What they discover along the way will change their lives, and their country, forever. The Cloud Seeders weaves humor and heartache, as well as poetry and science, into a unique novel that defies categorization. Water is good. Water is great...
Climate Intervention
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309314852
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions, and the fundamental solution is curbing those emissions. Climate geoengineering has often been considered to be a "last-ditch" response to climate change, to be used only if climate change damage should produce extreme hardship. Although the likelihood of eventually needing to resort to these efforts grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there is a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system. As one of a two-book report, this volume of Climate Intervention discusses albedo modification - changing the fraction of incoming solar radiation that reaches the surface. This approach would deliberately modify the energy budget of Earth to produce a cooling designed to compensate for some of the effects of warming associated with greenhouse gas increases. The prospect of large-scale albedo modification raises political and governance issues at national and global levels, as well as ethical concerns. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth discusses some of the social, political, and legal issues surrounding these proposed techniques. It is far easier to modify Earth's albedo than to determine whether it should be done or what the consequences might be of such an action. One serious concern is that such an action could be unilaterally undertaken by a small nation or smaller entity for its own benefit without international sanction and regardless of international consequences. Transparency in discussing this subject is critical. In the spirit of that transparency, Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth was based on peer-reviewed literature and the judgments of the authoring committee; no new research was done as part of this study and all data and information used are from entirely open sources. By helping to bring light to this topic area, this book will help leaders to be far more knowledgeable about the consequences of albedo modification approaches before they face a decision whether or not to use them.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309314852
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions, and the fundamental solution is curbing those emissions. Climate geoengineering has often been considered to be a "last-ditch" response to climate change, to be used only if climate change damage should produce extreme hardship. Although the likelihood of eventually needing to resort to these efforts grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there is a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system. As one of a two-book report, this volume of Climate Intervention discusses albedo modification - changing the fraction of incoming solar radiation that reaches the surface. This approach would deliberately modify the energy budget of Earth to produce a cooling designed to compensate for some of the effects of warming associated with greenhouse gas increases. The prospect of large-scale albedo modification raises political and governance issues at national and global levels, as well as ethical concerns. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth discusses some of the social, political, and legal issues surrounding these proposed techniques. It is far easier to modify Earth's albedo than to determine whether it should be done or what the consequences might be of such an action. One serious concern is that such an action could be unilaterally undertaken by a small nation or smaller entity for its own benefit without international sanction and regardless of international consequences. Transparency in discussing this subject is critical. In the spirit of that transparency, Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth was based on peer-reviewed literature and the judgments of the authoring committee; no new research was done as part of this study and all data and information used are from entirely open sources. By helping to bring light to this topic area, this book will help leaders to be far more knowledgeable about the consequences of albedo modification approaches before they face a decision whether or not to use them.
Fixing the Sky
Author: James Rodger Fleming
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231144121
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Weaving together stories from elite science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since the 1940s.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231144121
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Weaving together stories from elite science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since the 1940s.
The Brothers Vonnegut
Author: Ginger Strand
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government; weather proved a decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions. Maybe weather will even be the "New Super Weapon." But when the army takes charge of his cloud-seeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the harmful uses of his inventions, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. In a fascinating cultural history, Ginger Strand chronicles the intersection of these brothers' lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold War looms, Bernard's struggle for integrity plays out in Kurt's evolving writing style. The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how science's ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government; weather proved a decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions. Maybe weather will even be the "New Super Weapon." But when the army takes charge of his cloud-seeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the harmful uses of his inventions, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. In a fascinating cultural history, Ginger Strand chronicles the intersection of these brothers' lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold War looms, Bernard's struggle for integrity plays out in Kurt's evolving writing style. The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how science's ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists.
Prometheans
Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812532198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812532198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Final Report
Author: United States. Advisory Committee on Weather Control
Publisher:
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Category : Weather control
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Weather control
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Project Skywater
Author: United States. Atmospheric Water Resources Program
Publisher:
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Category : Project Skywater
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Project Skywater
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
ABA Journal
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
Cloud Seeding
Author: Laurence Dean Bark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Bulletin examines the potential benefits of cloud seeding in Kansas and how it might alter the pattern of rainfall in the state.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Bulletin examines the potential benefits of cloud seeding in Kansas and how it might alter the pattern of rainfall in the state.
Water
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description