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]

Life and career

Fleming earned degrees from Pennsylvania State University (BS astronomy 1971), Colorado State University (MS atmospheric science, 1973), and Princeton University (PhD history, 1988). He was a professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Colby College for 33 years and retired in 2021. 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

^ ^a ^b ^c James Rodger Fleming. Columbia University Press. September 2010. ISBN 978-0-231-51306-7.
^ "James R. Fleming (Jim)". Colby College.
^ "James Fleming". aaas.org. Retrieved May 29, 2017.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Many experts say technology can't fix climate change". TheStar. 2014.
^ "James Rodger Fleming" (PDF). CV. Colby College. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
^ "James R. Fleming". Colby College.
^ 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.
^ "The Climate Engineers". The Wilson Quarterly. 2007.
^ The Climate Engineers. Columbia University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-231-51306-7.
^ Fleming, Jim (2017). "Meteorology: Weather makers". Nature. 544 (7648): 32–33. Bibcode:2017Natur.544...32F. doi:10.1038/544032a.

External links

[CUP-1] James Rodger Fleming. Columbia University Press. September 2010. ISBN 978-0-231-51306-7.

[2] "James R. Fleming (Jim)". Colby College.

[3] "James Fleming". aaas.org. Retrieved May 29, 2017.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[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. ISBN 978-0-231-51306-7.

[10] Fleming, Jim (2017). "Meteorology: Weather makers". Nature. 544 (7648): 32–33. Bibcode:2017Natur.544...32F. doi:10.1038/544032a.

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