Make It Rain State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America

• Main Author: Harper, Kristine C. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2017
• Subjects: Humanities; History of the Americas; Meteorology & climatology; History of engineering & technology; Central government policies; contemporary; modern; weather; control; models; forecast; climate; sea level; seasons; seasonal; average; rainfall; snow; wind; behavior; history; historical; 1940s; funding; government; federal; local; agriculture; health; industry; economy; economic; project; snowpack; cold war; atmosphere; research; academic; scholarly; diplomacy; international
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Weather 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...