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HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages 3-25Publisher
UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS
DOI: 10.1525/hsps.2006.37.1.3
Keywords
climate control; climate modification; cloud seeding; geoengineering; pathological science; weather control; weather modification
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The checkered history of weather and climate modification exhibits a modicum of promise and an excess of hype. This paper examines two completed historical cycles: the first, dating from 1839, involved western proprietary rainmaking or pluviculture; the second, from 1946 to 1978 involved cloud seeding, commercial rainmaking, and the attempted weaponization of the clouds. Recently, discussion of weather and climate modification has returned to the science-policy agenda, framed as seemingly inevitable responses to killer storms and global warming. The long history of deceptive and delusional attempts to control nature, however, raised serious questions about,the rationality of these options.
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