James Rodger Fleming

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James Rodger Fleming, is a historian of science and technology, and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College, and author of the book Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control.[1][2]

Life and career[]

Fleming is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),[3] and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).[1] He is regarded as an expert for climate engineering, and critical of technological fixes to address global warming.[4]

Awards and honors[]

Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History[5] and the AAAS Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship during his time as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[1]

Bibliography[]

Sourced per his homepage at Colby College.[6]

  • Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
  • Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998)
  • The Callendar Effect (AMS, 2007)
  • Fixing the Sky (Columbia, 2010)
  • Inventing Atmospheric Science (MIT, 2016)
  • FIRST WOMAN: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere (Oxford, 2020)

Publications[]

  • The Climate Engineers (2007)[7]
  • Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Climate Engineering (2012)[8]
  • Meteorology: Weather makers (2017)[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "James Rodger Fleming". Columbia University Press.
  2. ^ "James R. Fleming (Jim)". Colby College.
  3. ^ "James Fleming". aaas.org. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  4. ^ "Many experts say technology can't fix climate change". TheStar. 2014.
  5. ^ "James Rodger Fleming" (PDF). CV. Colby College. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
  6. ^ "James R. Fleming". Colby College.
  7. ^ "The Climate Engineers". The Wilson Quarterly. 2007.
  8. ^ "The Climate Engineers". Columbia University Press. 2012.
  9. ^ "Meteorology: Weather makers". Nature. 2017.

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