James Rodger Fleming

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

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

  1. ^ a b c 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.