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<h1>Historical Perspectives on Climate Change: Scientific, Technological, and Social Dynamics</h1>
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<h1>Jim Fleming</h1>
<h3><i>Professor of Science, Technology, and Society<br />
Colby College</i></h3>
<h3>Tuesday, May 8</h3>
<h3>4:15 PM</h3>
<h3><i>Reception to follow</i></h3>
<h3><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=66" target="blank"> Room 66-110</a></h3>
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<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>How have scientists gained awareness and understanding of phenomena that cover the entire globe and that are constantly changing on time scales ranging from geological eras and centuries to decades, years, and seasons? How was this accomplished by individuals immersed in and surrounded by the phenomena? How were privileged positions created and defined? The answers are varied and worthy of extended reflection. This talk argues that scientific, technological, and social dynamics play essential roles in the study of climate dynamics.</p>
<p><strong>About the speaker</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jim Fleming</strong> is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College. He has earned degrees in astronomy (BS Penn State), atmospheric science (MS Colorado State) and history (Ph.D. Princeton) and has held a number of major fellowships and lectureships, including the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution, the Roger Revelle Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the H. Burr Steinbach Lectureship at MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Gordon Cain Conference Fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, a Woodrow Wilson Center policy scholarship, and a Scholar's Award from the US National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of both the AAAS and the American Meteorological Society (AMS), contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4), founder and first president of the International Commission on History of Meteorology, and series editor of Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Jim's books include Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990), Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998), The Callendar Effect (AMS Books, 2007), and his latest, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control (Columbia, 2010), winner of the 2011 Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology and the Louis J. Battan Author's Award from the AMS. He is deeply invested in building the community of historians of the geosciences and connecting the history of science, technology, and medicine with public policy. New work includes a book on the emergence of atmospheric science and a biography of the carbon dioxide molecule.</p>
<p><strong>The Seminar Series is made possible with the generous support of IHS-CERA</strong></p>
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