Human Impacts on Weather and Climate

Part I. The Rise and Fall of the Science of Weather Modification by Cloud Seeding 1. The rise of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding 2. The glory years of weather modification 3. The fall of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding Part II. Human Impacts on Regional Weather and Climate 4. Anthropogenic emissions of aerosols and gases 5. Urban-induced changes in precipitation and weather 6. Other landuse changes 7. Concluding remarks regarding human impacts on regional weather and climate Part III. Human Impacts on Global Climate 8. Fundamental principles important to understanding global climate change 9. Climatic effects of anthropogenic aerosol 10. Nuclear winter 11. The greenhouse gas theory 12. Human impacts on biosphere forcing of climatic variability Epilogue.