weather control

Readers will discover the science behind producing electricity, taming hurricanes, and creating rain on demand.

"Geoengineering is the deliberate manipulation of the environment in an attempt to counteract the harmful effects of human-influenced climate change. It's intended as a solution, but it also can create unintended consequences. When scientists and political leaders can't even agree on the extent of climate change, it can seem hopeless to think they will come together to work on solutions. This enlightening resource offers perspectives from experts in the field today, making clear why this topic attracts such controversy and what can be done in the future to help our planet"--Provided by publisher.

In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut worked in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, was a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government. Weather proved a decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions. Maybe weather will even be--as a headline in American Magazine calls it--"The New Super Weapon." But when the army takes charge of his cloudseeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the use of his inventions for harm, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. This book chronicles the intersection of these brothers' lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold War looms, Bernard's struggle for integrity plays out in Kurt's evolving writing style. The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how science's ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists.

Rainmaker Hank Beecham agrees to a request to return to St. Elmo, California and save his hometown from drought on the condition that he get credit for every drop of rain that falls from that day forth, but what the city fathers did not realize is that Hank, bitter about his experiences in St. Elmo, intends to unleash a flood upon the town.

Describes various methods developed by scientists to control or alter weather patterns.

Discusses the history of man's efforts to control the weather from the methods of the earliest "weather makers" to the most sophisticated methods used today.

Joanne Baldwin, a Weather Warden who enjoys fast living, tries to save the world from Kevin, a teenager who's creating chaos with a powerful Djinn, by surrendering her own Djinn and possibly her life while trying to discern who is friend or foe.