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INDEX
Numbers in italics refer to pages on which illustrations appear.
A. R. Company
Abbe, Cleveland
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Abipones (South American Indians)
Accademia del Cimento
ACN.
See
Artificial Cloud Nucleation
See
Artificial Cloud Nucleation
ACWC.
See
Advisory Committee on Weather Control
See
Advisory Committee on Weather Control
Adabashev, I.
adaptation
Advisory Committee on Weather Control (ACWC)
Aeneid
(Virgil)
(Virgil)
Aeolus (storm god)
aerial explosions
Africa
Agent Orange
air-conditioning
Air Trust, The
(England)
(England)
Aitken, John
Aitken nuclei
albedo, enhancement of
alcane gases
Allaby, Michael
Allen, Woody
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Claimant, The
(Twain)
(Twain)
American Geophysical Union, Upper-Atmosphere Committee
American Meteorological Journal
American Meteorological Society;
Bulletin
; Krick and; policy statement of, on geoengineering
Bulletin
; Krick and; policy statement of, on geoengineering
American Philosophical Society
America's Climate Choices
Anderson, Clinton P.
Anderson, Jack
Andromeda Strain, The
(film)
(film)
Antarctic
anthropogenic: forcing; greenhouse warming
Arago, François
Archimedean leverage
Arctic
Argonne National Laboratory
Argosy
(magazine)
(magazine)
Aristotle
Arnold, H. H.
Arrhenius, Svante
Artaxerxes I (king of Persia)
Artificial Cloud Nucleation (ACN), Ad Hoc Committee on
artificial volcanoes
Asilomar
Atkinson, Jayne
Atlantropa Project
Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Atwater, J. B.
aviation
Bacon, Francis
balloons
Balsillie, John Graeme
Bancroft, Wilder D.
Bane, T. H.
Banks, Donald
Battle of the Bulge
Bell, G. H.
Bellow, Saul
bell ringing
Bennett, Donald C.
Berchoff, Don
Bergen School
Bergeron, Tor
Berler, Richard
biochar
biosphere
Bjerknes, Vilhelm
Black, James
Black, Joseph
Blair, T. A.
Blair, William
Blake, Lucien I.
Blodgett, Kathleen
Blondlot, Prosper-René
Blue Mars
(Robinson)
(Robinson)
Bohren, Craig
bombs.
See also
nuclear bombs
See also
nuclear bombs
Borisov, Petr Mikhailovich
Bosch, Carl
“Both Sides Now” (Mitchell)
Bowie, E. H.
Bradley, Omar
“Brazen Android, The” (O'Connor)
Brezhnev, Leonid
Broecker, Wallace
bromine
Bronk, D. W.
Brooks, Charles Franklin
Brown, Harrison
Brown, Laurice Leroy
Bruni, Louis
Buchanan, James
Budyko, Mikhail Ivanovitch
Bugaev, Victor A.
Bush, Vannevar
Butterfield, Herbert
butterfly effect.
See also
chaos theory
See also
chaos theory
Byers, Horace
CaCl
2
.
See
calcium chloride
2
.
See
calcium chloride
“Caius Marius” (Plutarch)
calcium chloride (CaCl
2
)
2
)
Caldeira, Ken
Calder, William Musgrave
California Institute of Technology
Callendar, Guy Stewart
Callendar effect
caloric of elasticity
Can Man Change the Climate?
(Borisov)
(Borisov)
cannon; hurricane.
See also
hail shooting
See also
hail shooting
“Can We Survive Technology?” (von Neumann)
carbon black
carbon capture and sequestration (CCS); Lackner towers and; practicality of; viability of
carbon dioxide (CO
2
); CCS and; climate change and; as cloud-seeding agent; control of; discovery of; Ekholm and; fossil fuels and; global warming and; influence of; liquefaction of; liquid; reducing production of; removal of; solid.
See also
carbonic acid; dry ice
2
); CCS and; climate change and; as cloud-seeding agent; control of; discovery of; Ekholm and; fossil fuels and; global warming and; influence of; liquefaction of; liquid; reducing production of; removal of; solid.
See also
carbonic acid; dry ice
carbonic acid
Carpenter, Ford Ashman
Carrier, Willis H.
Case for Mars, The
(Zubrin)
(Zubrin)
Casso, Raul
Castro, Fidel
Catlin, George
Cat's Cradle
(Vonnegut)
(Vonnegut)
CCS.
See
carbon capture and sequestration
See
carbon capture and sequestration
Central Intelligence Agency
Chaffee, Emory Leon
Chang, David B.
chaos theory
Chapman, Sydney
Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de
charlatans
Charlemagne
Chemical Warfare Service
chemtrails
Cherenkov, Valentin
Chernobyl, nuclear accident at
Chevriers, Marquis de
China
chlorine
chlorofluorocarbons
Christian Science Monitor
(newspaper)
(newspaper)
Christophilos, Nicholas C.
Churchill, Winston
Cicerone, Ralph
Civil War
Clarke, Arthur C.; on FIDO; Global Weather Authority, vision of
Clarke, F. W.
Clement, Hal
climate; fluctuations in; intervention strategies for; models of; tipping point of; variability of
climate change; abrupt; carbon dioxide theory of; fantasies about; fears about; popularizations of; triggers for; Wexler and
climate control: dangers of; Fletcher's model of; Langmuir and; possibilities of; as weapon
“Climate Stabilization” (Kellogg and Schneider)
Climatic Changes
(Budyko)
(Budyko)
cloud physics
cloud seeding; cold war and; commercial; dry ice as agent for; General Electric and; Houghton and; in Indochina; Krick and; Langmuir and; popularization of; Schaefer and,
; with seawater; triggers and.
See also
Project Cirrus
; with seawater; triggers and.
See also
Project Cirrus
CO
2
.
See
carbon dioxide
2
.
See
carbon dioxide
coal
Cohen, William S.
Cohn, Carol
cold war
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collier's
(magazine)
(magazine)
Communist Party
Compendium Maleficarum
(Guazzo)
(Guazzo)
Compton, Karl
computer modeling; hurricane control and; Wexler and
concussions
Conservation Foundation
Consolidated Edison
convective theory
Cook, William Wallace
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