Fixing the Sky

by James Rodger Fleming

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  INDEX

  Numbers in italics refer to pages on which illustrations appear.

  A. R. Company

  Abbe, Cleveland

  Aberdeen Proving Ground

  Abipones (South American Indians)

  Accademia del Cimento

  ACN. See Artificial Cloud Nucleation

  ACWC. See Advisory Committee on Weather Control

  Adabashev, I.

  adaptation

  Advisory Committee on Weather Control (ACWC)

  Aeneid (Virgil)

  Aeolus (storm god)

  aerial explosions

  Africa

  Agent Orange

  air-conditioning

  Air Trust, The (England)

  Aitken, John

  Aitken nuclei

  albedo, enhancement of

  alcane gases

  Allaby, Michael

  Allen, Woody

  American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  American Claimant, The (Twain)

  American Geophysical Union, Upper-Atmosphere Committee

  American Meteorological Journal

  American Meteorological Society; Bulletin; Krick and; policy statement of, on geoengineering

  American Philosophical Society

  America’s Climate Choices

  Anderson, Clinton P.

  Anderson, Jack

  Andromeda Strain, The (film)

  Antarctic

  anthropogenic: forcing; greenhouse warming

  Arago, François

  Archimedean leverage

  Arctic

  Argonne National Laboratory

  Argosy (magazine)

  Aristotle

  Arnold, H. H.

  Arrhenius, Svante

  Artaxerxes I (king of Persia)

  Artificial Cloud Nucleation (ACN), Ad Hoc Committee on

  artificial volcanoes

  Asilomar

  Atkinson, Jayne

  Atlantropa Project

  Atmospheric and Environmental Research

  Atwater, J. B.

  aviation

  Bacon, Francis

  balloons

  Balsillie, John Graeme

  Bancroft, Wilder D.

  Bane, T. H.

  Banks, Donald

  Battle of the Bulge

  Bell, G. H.

  Bellow, Saul

  bell ringing

  Bennett, Donald C.

  Berchoff, Don

  Bergen School

  Bergeron, Tor

  Berler, Richard

  biochar

  biosphere

  Bjerknes, Vilhelm

  Black, James

  Black, Joseph

  Blair, T. A.

  Blair, William

  Blake, Lucien I.

  Blodgett, Kathleen

  Blondlot, Prosper-René

  Blue Mars (Robinson)

  Bohren, Craig

  bombs. See also nuclear bombs

  Borisov, Petr Mikhailovich

  Bosch, Carl

  “Both Sides Now” (Mitchell)

  Bowie, E. H.

  Bradley, Omar

  “Brazen Android, The” (O’Connor)

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  Broecker, Wallace

  bromine

  Bronk, D. W.

  Brooks, Charles Franklin

  Brown, Harrison

  Brown, Laurice Leroy

  Bruni, Louis

  Buchanan, James

  Budyko, Mikhail Ivanovitch

  Bugaev, Victor A.

  Bush, Vannevar

  Butterfield, Herbert

  butterfly effect. See also chaos theory

  Byers, Horace

  CaCl2. See calcium chloride

  “Caius Marius” (Plutarch)

  calcium chloride (CaCl2)

  Caldeira, Ken

  Calder, William Musgrave

  California Institute of Technology

  Callendar, Guy Stewart

  Callendar effect

  caloric of elasticity

  Can Man Change the Climate? (Borisov)

  cannon; hurricane. See also hail shooting

  “Can We Survive Technology?” (von Neumann)

  carbon black

  carbon capture and sequestration (CCS); Lackner towers and; practicality of; viability of

  carbon dioxide (CO2); CCS and; climate change and; as cloud-seeding agent; control of; discovery of; Ekholm and; fossil fuels and; global warming and; influence of; liquefaction of; liquid; reducing production of; removal of; solid. See also carbonic acid; dry ice

  carbonic acid

  Carpenter, Ford Ashman

  Carrier, Willis H.

  Case for Mars, The (Zubrin)

  Casso, Raul

  Castro, Fidel

  Catlin, George

  Cat’s Cradle (Vonnegut)

  CCS. See carbon capture and sequestration

  Central Intelligence Agency

  Chaffee, Emory Leon

  Chang, David B.

  chaos theory

  Chapman, Sydney

  Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de

  charlatans

  Charlemagne

  Chemical Warfare Service

  chemtrails

  Cherenkov, Valentin

  Chernobyl, nuclear accident at

  Chevriers, Marquis de

  China

  chlorine

  chlorofluorocarbons

  Christian Science Monitor (newspaper)

  Christophilos, Nicholas C.

  Churchill, Winston

  Cicerone, Ralph

  Civil War

  Clarke, Arthur C.; on FIDO; Global Weather Authority, vision of

  Clarke, F. W.

  Clement, Hal

  climate; fluctuations in; intervention strategies for; models of; tipping point of; variability of

  climate change; abrupt; carbon dioxide theory of; fantasies about; fears about; popularizations of; triggers for; Wexler and

  climate control: dangers of; Fletcher’s model of; Langmuir and; possibilities of; as weapon

  “Climate Stabilization” (Kellogg and Schneider)

  Climatic Changes (Budyko)

  cloud physics

  cloud seeding; cold war and; commercial; dry ice as agent for; General Electric and; Houghton and; in Indochina; Krick and; Langmuir and; popularization of; Schaefer and, ; with seawater; triggers and. See also Project Cirrus

  CO2. See carbon dioxide

  coal

  Cohen, William S.

  Cohn, Carol

  cold war

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  Collier’s (magazine)

  Communist Party

  Compendium Maleficarum (Guazzo)

  Compton, Karl

  computer modeling; hurricane control and; Wexler and

  concussions

  Conservation Foundation

  Consolidated Edison

  convective theory

  Cook, William Wallace

  C
oolidge, Calvin

  Cotton, William

  Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)

  Crittenden, John J.

  Croll, James

  Crookes, William

  Croy, Homer

  Crutzen, Paul

  Curtis, George E.

  Daily Telegraph (newspaper)

  Daniels, Josephus

  Dante Alighieri

  Davis, William Morris

  Day After Tomorrow, The (film)

  Debs, Eugene V.

  deforestation

  dehumidification. See also fog dispersal

  deindustrialization

  deozonizer

  Derjaguin, Boris

  Descartes, René

  desert, flooding of

  Dessens, Jean

  d’Estrées, Comte

  DICE model. See dynamic integrated climate economy model

  dimethyl sulfate (DMS)

  disasters

  Divine Comedy, The (Dante); Inferno

  DMS. See dimethyl sulfate

  Dobrizhoffer, Martin

  domino effect

  Donald Duck

  Doré, Gustave

  Dow Chemical Company

  Doyle, Arthur Conan

  Drozdov, Oleg A.

  dry ice

  DuBridge, Lee A.

  dust; hail and; pollution from; in space; in stratosphere

  Dyer, S. Allen

  dynamic integrated climate economy (DICE) model

  dynamite

  Dyrenforth, Robert St. George

  Dyson, Freeman

  Dyson sphere

  Eagle, L. I.

  Early, James

  Earth: albedo of; axis of; radiative balance of; rotation of; secular cooling of

  Earth Institute (Columbia University)

  Earth Summit

  Earthwise Technologies

  ecohacking. See also geoengineering

  Edison, Thomas

  Eighth Wonder, The (Cook)

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Ekholm, Nils Gustaf

  electricity, for fog and smoke dispersal

  electrified sand

  Elementary Meteorology (Davis)

  Ellis, John T.

  ELSI. See ethical, legal, social implications

  Emanuel, Kerry

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Enders, J. M.

  England, George Allan

  Enlightenment

  ENMOD. See United Nations: Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques

  Environmental Protection Agency