Authors: James Rodger Fleming
Fixing the Sky (62 page)
Meteorologica
(Aristotle)
(Aristotle)
Meteorological Essays
(Arago)
(Arago)
methane
Methods of Climate Control
(Rusin and Flit)
(Rusin and Flit)
Middle Ages
military: meteorology and; research by; science and.
See also
war
See also
war
Miller, William
Millikan, Robert A.
Milton, John
Mindling, George W.
Minor, Audax
mirrors, in space
MIT.
See
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
See
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mitchell, Joni
mitigation
“mitogenic rays,”
“molecular reductionism,”
Molina, Mario
Möller, F.
Mollohan, Alan
monopolies
Monthly Weather Review
Moore, William
Moore, Willis L.
More Sunshine in the Cloudy North, More Rain in the Tropics
(Veraart)
(Veraart)
Morris, Nelson
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Mother Culture
Mount Washington Observatory
Müller, Rolf
mythology
Namias, Jerome
nanotechnology
Napoleon Bonaparte
Naqvi, S. W. A.
NASA; Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Institute for Advanced Concepts
Nash, N. Richard
National Academy of Sciences; Committee on Atmospheric Sciences;
Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research
; National Research Council; Panel on Weather and Climate Modification;
Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warning
Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research
; National Research Council; Panel on Weather and Climate Modification;
Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warning
National Advisory Committee on Aviation
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
National Defense Research Council
National Hurricane Research Project (NHRP)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
natural gas
nature, states of
Navajo (North American Indians)
Nebraska, rainmakers in
nephelescopes
New Atlantis, The
(Bacon)
(Bacon)
New Mexico
Newsweek
(magazine)
(magazine)
New York Enquirer
(newspaper)
(newspaper)
New Yorker
(magazine)
(magazine)
New York Times
(newspaper)
(newspaper)
New York World
(newspaper)
(newspaper)
NHRP.
See
National Hurricane Research Project
See
National Hurricane Research Project
Nimitz, Chester W.
Nitrogen Fix, The
(Clement)
(Clement)
nitrogen fixation process
nitroglycerine
nitrous oxide
Nixon, Richard M.
NOAA.
See
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
See
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
noosphere
Nordhaus, William
North American Water and Power Alliance
Norwegian Forecasting Service
Novim Group
“N-rays,” 137
NSF.
See
National Science Foundation
See
National Science Foundation
nuclear bombs
Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy
nuclear power
nuclear winter
nucleation
numerical weather prediction (NWP)
NWP.
See
numerical weather prediction
See
numerical weather prediction
Oberth, Herman
ocean iron fertilization (OIF)
O'Connor, William Douglas
Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
OIF.
See
ocean iron fertilization
See
ocean iron fertilization
Olympics
Oman, Luke
110 in the Shade
(Nash)
(Nash)
“On the Possibilities of Climate Control” (Wexler)
Operation Argus
Operation Cumulus (Operation Witchdoctor)
Operation Hardtack
Operation Motorpool (Intermediary-Compatriot)
Operation Starfish
orgone
Orville, Howard T.
OSRD.
See
Office of Scientific Research and Development
See
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Ostwald, Wilhelm
Our Man Flint
(film)
(film)
“Outline of Weather Proposal” (Zworykin)
Owning the Weather
(film)
(film)
oxygen
oxy-hydrogen balloons
ozone depletion
ozone layer
Pacala, Stephen
Page, Geraldine
Panama Canal
Paradise Lost
(Milton)
(Milton)
patents
pathological science
Pazniak, Zianon
Pell, Claiborne
Penner, Stanford Solomon
Pentagon Papers
permafrost
Persian Gulf War I, 185
petroleum burners
Petroleum Warfare Department (PWD)
Petterssen, Sverre
Phaethon
Phillips, Norman
Philosophy of Storms, The
(Espy)
(Espy)
plankton, blooms of
Plass, Gilbert
Player Piano
(Vonnegut)
(Vonnegut)
Plutarch
pluviculture
pollution; control of; global warming and; light; from rifle system.
See also
greenhouse gases
See also
greenhouse gases
Pons, Stanley
popularizations
Popular Mechanics
(magazine)
(magazine)
Popular Science Monthly
(magazine)
(magazine)
Porky Pig
Porky the Rain-Maker
(film)
(film)
Powell, John Wesley
power plants; hydroelectric; nuclear
Powers, Edward
prayer
precipitation static
predictions.
See
forecasting
See
forecasting
President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC)
prevention, as intervention strategy
production, as intervention strategy
Project Cirrus
Project Gromet
Project High Water
Project Plowshare
Project Popeye
Project Stormfury
Project West Ford (Project Needles)
protection, as intervention strategy
Provaqua
PSAC.
See
President's Science Advisory Committee
See
President's Science Advisory Committee
Purchase of the North Pole, The
(Verne)
(Verne)
Purdue University
Putin, Vladimir
PWD.
See
Petroleum Warfare Department
See
Petroleum Warfare Department
Quinn, Daniel
radar
Radford, W. H.
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Laboratory
radium
RAF.
See
Royal Air Force
See
Royal Air Force
rain gauges
“Rain King, The” (Leslie)
“Rain-Maker, The” (Wilson)
Rainmaker, The
(Nash)
(Nash)
Rainmakers, The
(Spence)
(Spence)
rainmaking: cartoonists' take on; categories of; early efforts at; electrified sand and; examination of; from fires; in Kansas; in Nebraska; practicality of
Rain Making and Other Weather Vagaries
(Humphreys)
(Humphreys)
Rakipova, Larisa R.
RAND Corporation
Rapley, Chris
Rasch, Philip
RCA Laboratory.
See
Radio Corporation of America Laboratory
See
Radio Corporation of America Laboratory
Red Green Show
(television show)
(television show)
Red Mars
(Robinson)
(Robinson)
reforestation
Reich, Wilhelm
Reichelderfer, Francis W.
Remington Arms
remote sensing
“Report on the Barnhouse Effect” (Vonnegut)
Restoring the Quality of Our Environment
(PSAC)
(PSAC)
Revelle, Roger
Revenge of Gaia, The
(Lovelock)
(Lovelock)
Rex, Daniel
Rhees, William J.
Rhine, Joseph Banks
Richardson, Louis Fry
Rickenbacker, Eddie
Riehl, Herb
rifle system
Riker, Carroll Livingston
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Robock, Alan
rocketry
Rock Island Railroad Company
Rodin, M. B.
Rome Plow
Röntgen rays
Roosevelt, Franklin
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rossby, Carl-Gustav
Roudaire, François Elie
Rowland, Sherwood
Royal Academy of Engineering
Royal Aircraft Establishment
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Royal Meteorological Society
Royal Society of London;
Philosophical Transactions
Philosophical Transactions
Ruddiman, William
Ruggles, Daniel
Rusin, Nikolai Petrovich
Rusk, Jeremiah
Russian Academy
sacrifices
Sahara Desert
Salawitch, Ross
Salter, Steven
sand, electrified
Sanford, Fernando
San Francisco Chronicle
(newspaper)
(newspaper)
Sarnoff, David
satellite remote sensing
satellites
saw grass
Schaefer, Vincent; Project Cirrus and
Schelling, Thomas
Schiller, Friedrich
Schmidt, Gavin
Schneider, Stephen
Science
(magazine)
(magazine)
science fiction
Scientific American
(magazine)
(magazine)
Scientific Revolution
Scribner's Magazine
seawater, as cloud-seeding agent
Sellers, Mulberry
Seneca
Sevastopol, siege of
“Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals” (Cohn)
Shakespeare, William
Shaler, Nathaniel
Shapley, Harlow
Shaw, Napier
Shepherd, John
Shih, I-Fu
Shvets, M. Ye.
silver iodide (AgI); Bernard Vonnegut and; as cloud-seeding
agent; in flares; Langmuir and; in New Mexico
agent; in flares; Langmuir and; in New Mexico
Simpson, Joanne
Simpson, Robert H.
Sky King
(television show)
(television show)
Smetacek, Victor
Smith, Karl F.
smog
smoke
socialism
socio-technical hybrid issues
Socolow, Robert
solar radiation management; idealized; stratospheric dust and; sulfuric acid and
solar shield
“Song of the Bell” (Schiller)
Sörgel, Herman
sound waves
Soviet Electric Power
(Markin)
(Markin)
Soviet Union; ENMOD and
Spaatz, Carl A.
space: control of; mirrors in
Spence, Clark
Spilhaus, Athelstan
Sputnik
(satellites)
(satellites)
SST.
See
supersonic transport
See
supersonic transport
St. Amand, Pierre
stabilization wedges
Stalin, Joseph
Stanford Law Review
Stapleton, Olaf
Stenchikov, Georgiy
Stiger, Albert
Stingo, John R.
storytelling
stratosphere: aerosol content of; bubbles in; burning sulfur in; cooling of; dust in; pollution in; rifle system and
Suits, C. Guy
sulfates
Summers, Lawrence
sunspots, manipulation of
supersonic transport (SST)
Sverdrup, Harald U.
Sykes, George Ambrosius Immanuel Morrison
Takers
Talbot, Curtis G.
Talman, Charles Fitzhugh
Tarmy, Barry
Tatarsk Strait
technology; fear of; historic; limitations of; Takers and
Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) program
Teller, Edward
terraforming
Terraforming Earth
(Williamson)
(Williamson)
Texas Department of Agriculture
Theosophists
Thompson, Michael
Tilmes, Simone
Tilton, James
Time
(magazine)
(magazine)
tipping points
TIROS.
See
Television Infrared Observation Satellite program
See
Television Infrared Observation Satellite program
Toon, Brian
“To the Friends of Science” (Espy)
trafficability
Train, Arthur
Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London
triggers
Truman, Harry
Tuan, Yi-fu
Turco, Richard
Twain, Mark
Tyndall, John
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. 255
UCAR.
See
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
See
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ulam, Stanislaw
United Nations (UN); Conference of the Committee on Disarmament; Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD); Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Environment Program (UNEP); Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
University Meteorological Committee
University of CaliforniaâSan Diego: Center for Energy and Combustion Research; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
U.S. Air Force: Cloud Physics Research Project (with Weather Bureau); Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit (with Navy and Weather Bureau); Strategic Air Command; Weather Reconnaissance Squadron; Weather Resources and Programs; Weather Service
U.S. Army: Air Force; Air Weather Service; Medical Department; Ordnance Department; Signal Office
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
U.S. Climate Change Technology Program
U.S. Congress: House of Representatives; Senate; testimony before
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Air Commerce
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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