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.
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), and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is regarded as an expert for climate engineering, and critical of technological fixes to address global warming.
Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History 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.
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