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 Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine, United States. Founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, it was renamed Waterville College in 1821. The donations of Christian philanthropist Gardner ...

, and author of the book ''Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control''.

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 The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

(AAAS), and a fellow of the

American Meteorological Society The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is a scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences. Its mission is to advance the atmosph ...

(AMS). He is regarded as an expert for

climate engineering Geoengineering (also known as climate engineering or climate intervention) is the deliberate large-scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system intended to counteract human-caused climate change. The term commonly encompasses two broad cate ...

, and critical of technological fixes to address

global warming Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes ...

Awards and honors

Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History The Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, also known as the Lindbergh Chair, is a one-year senior fellowship hosted by the U.S. National Air and Space Museum (NASM), to assist a scholar in the research and composition of a book about ...

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 The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) or Wilson Center is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank A think tank, or public policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topi ...

Bibliography

Sourced per his homepage at Colby College. *Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990) *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) *Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Climate Engineering (2012) *Meteorology: Weather makers (2017)

References

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fleming, James Rodger Place of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people) 1949 births Living people American Association for the Advancement of Science Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contributing authors 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Fellows of the American Meteorological Society Colby College faculty