James Rodger Fleming

James Rodger Fleming, is a historian of science and technology, and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus at Colby College, and author of the book Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control.[1][2]

James Rodger Fleming, historian of science, at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2006

Life and career

Fleming is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),[3] and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).[1] He is regarded as an expert for climate engineering, and critical of technological fixes to address global warming.[4]

Awards and honors

Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History[5] and the AAAS Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship during his time as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[1]

Bibliography

Sourced per his homepage at Colby College.[6]

  • Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990)[7]
  • Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998)
  • The Callendar Effect (AMS, 2007)
  • Fixing the Sky (Columbia, 2010)
  • Inventing Atmospheric Science (MIT, 2016)
  • FIRST WOMAN: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere (Oxford, 2020)

Publications
  • The Climate Engineers (2007)[8]
  • Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Climate Engineering (2012)[9]
  • Meteorology: Weather makers (2017)[10]

References
  1. "James Rodger Fleming". Columbia University Press.
  2. "James R. Fleming (Jim)". Colby College.
  3. "James Fleming". aaas.org. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  4. "Many experts say technology can't fix climate change". TheStar. 2014.
  5. "James Rodger Fleming" (PDF). CV. Colby College. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
  6. "James R. Fleming". Colby College.
  7. Sinclair, Bruce (10 May 1991). "Review of Meteorology In America, 1800-1870 by James Rodger Fleming". Science. 252 (5007): 864–865. doi:10.1126/science.252.5007.864.a. PMID 17744267. S2CID 239875184.
  8. "The Climate Engineers". The Wilson Quarterly. 2007.
  9. "The Climate Engineers". Columbia University Press. 2012.
  10. "Meteorology: Weather makers". Nature. 2017.
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