James Rodger Fleming Explained

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]

External links

• Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
• Biographical Sketch, https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Fleming__James_Rodger

Notes and References

1. Book: James Rodger Fleming. September 2010 . Columbia University Press. 978-0-231-51306-7 .
2. Web site: James R. Fleming (Jim). Colby College.
3. Web site: James Fleming . aaas.org . May 29, 2017.
4. Web site: Many experts say technology can't fix climate change. 2014. TheStar.
5. Web site: James Rodger Fleming . Colby College . CV . May 26, 2011.
6. Web site: James R. Fleming. Colby College.
7. Review of Meteorology In America, 1800-1870 by James Rodger Fleming. Sinclair, Bruce. Science. 10 May 1991. 252. 5007. 864–865 . 10.1126/science.252.5007.864.a. 17744267 . 239875184 .
8. Web site: The Climate Engineers. The Wilson Quarterly. 2007.
9. Book: The Climate Engineers. Columbia University Press. 2012. 978-0-231-51306-7 .
10. Meteorology: Weather makers. Nature. 2017. 10.1038/544032a . Fleming . Jim . 544 . 7648 . 32–33 . 2017Natur.544...32F .