LEADER 03483nam 22005535 450 001 9910727269303321 005 20230620202610.0 010 $a0-226-59792-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226437378 035 $a(CKB)3710000001118568 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4830504 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001654062 035 $a(DE-B1597)523668 035 $a(OCoLC)980737015 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226437378 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001118568 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMake It Rain $eState Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America /$fKristine C. Harper 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (328 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 08$aPrint version : 9780226437231 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Weather Control: Scientific Fringe to Scientific Mainstream (1890- 1950) --$tPart II. Coming to Grips with Weather Control (1950- 1957) --$tPart III. Weather Control as State Tool (1957- 1980) --$tConclusion: Weather Control and the American State --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWeather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with interest by all, regardless of political or scientific persuasion. But between the late nineteenth century-when the United States first funded an attempt to "shock" rain out of clouds-and the late 1940s, rainmaking (as it had been known) became weather control. And then things got out of control. In Make It Rain, Kristine C. Harper tells the long and somewhat ludicrous history of state-funded attempts to manage, manipulate, and deploy the weather in America. Harper shows that governments from the federal to the local became helplessly captivated by the idea that weather control could promote agriculture, health, industrial output, and economic growth at home, or even be used as a military weapon and diplomatic tool abroad. Clear fog for landing aircraft? There's a project for that. Gentle rain for strawberries? Let's do it! Enhanced snowpacks for hydroelectric utilities? Check. The heyday of these weather control programs came during the Cold War, as the atmosphere came to be seen as something to be defended, weaponized, and manipulated. Yet Harper demonstrates that today there are clear implications for our attempts to solve the problems of climate change. 606 $aWeather control$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aScience and state$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $aCold War. 610 $acontrol of nature. 610 $astate funding. 610 $athe state. 610 $awater. 610 $aweather control. 615 0$aWeather control$xHistory. 615 0$aScience and state$xHistory. 676 $a551.680973 700 $aHarper$b Kristine C.$0792164 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910727269303321 996 $aMake it rain$91771315 997 $aUNINA