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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The rise and fall of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding | |
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| The rise of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding | |
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| Project Cirrus | |
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| The glory years of weather modification | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The static mode of cloud seeding | |
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| The dynamic mode of cloud seeding | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fundamental concepts | |
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| Modification of warm clouds | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic physical concepts of precipitation formation in warm clouds | |
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| Strategies for enhancing rainfall from warm clouds | |
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| Hail suppression | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic concepts of hailstorms and hail formation | |
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| Hail suppression concepts | |
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| Field confirmation of hail suppression techniques | |
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| Modification of tropical cyclones | |
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| Basic conceptual model of hurricanes | |
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| The Stormfury modification hypothesis | |
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| Stormfury field experiments | |
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| The fall of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding | |
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| Inadvertent human impacts on regional weather and climate | |
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| Anthropogenic emissions of aerosols and gases | |
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| Cloud condensation nuclei and precipitation | |
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| Aircraft contrails | |
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| Ice nuclei and precipitation | |
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| Other pollution effects | |
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| Dust | |
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| Direct radiative forcing | |
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| Indirect effects of dust | |
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| Urban-induced changes in precipitation and weather | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Urban increases in CCN and IN concentrations and spectra | |
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| The glaciation mechanism | |
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| Impact of urban land use on precipitation and weather | |
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| Observed cloud morphology and frequency | |
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| Clouds and precipitation deduced from radar studies | |
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| Other land-use/land-cover changes | |
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| Landscape effects | |
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| Surface effects | |
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| Boundary-layer effects | |
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| Local wind circulations | |
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| Vertical perspective | |
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| Mesoscale and regional horizontal perspective | |
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| Influence of irrigation | |
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| Colorado | |
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| Nebraska | |
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| Dryland agriculture: Oklahoma | |
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| Desertification | |
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| Historical overview | |
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| North Africa | |
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| Western Australia | |
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| Middle East | |
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| Deforestation | |
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| Historical perspective | |
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| Amazon | |
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| Africa | |
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| Regional vegetation feedbacks | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Concluding remarks regarding deliberate and inadvertent human impacts on regional weather and climate | |
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| Human impacts on global climate | |
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| Overview of global climate forcings and feedbacks | |
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| Overview | |
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| Atmospheric radiation | |
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| Absorption and scattering by gases | |
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| Absorption and scattering by aerosols | |
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| Absorption and scattering by clouds | |
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| Global energy balance and the greenhouse effect | |
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| Changes in solar luminosity and orbital parameters | |
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| Natural variations in aerosols and dust | |
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| Surface properties | |
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| Assessment of the relative radiative effect of carbon dioxide and water vapor | |
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| Climate feedbacks | |
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| Water vapor feedbacks | |
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| Cloud feedbacks | |
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| Surface albedo feedbacks | |
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| Ocean feedbacks | |
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| Views of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Research Council of climate forcings | |
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| Climatic effects of anthropogenic aerosols | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Direct aerosol effects | |
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| Aerosol impacts on clouds: the Twomey effect | |
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| Aerosols in mixed-phase clouds and climate | |
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| Aerosols, deep convection, and climate | |
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| Nuclear winter | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The nuclear winter hypothesis: its scientific basis | |
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| The war scenarios | |
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| Smoke production | |
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| Vertical distribution of smoke | |
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| Scavenging and sedimentation of smoke | |
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| Water injection and mesoscale responses | |
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| Other mesoscale responses | |
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| Global climatic responses | |
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| Biological effects | |
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| Summary of the status of the nuclear winter hypothesis | |
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| Global effects of land-use/land-cover change and vegetation dynamics | |
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| Land-use/land-cover changes | |
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| Historical land-use change | |
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| Global perspective | |
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| Quantifying land-use/land-cover forcing of climate | |
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| Atmosphere-vegetation interactions | |
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| The abrupt desertification of the Sahara | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The importance and underappreciation of natural variability | |
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| The dangers of overselling | |
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| The capricious administration of science and technology | |
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| Scientific credibility and advocacy | |
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| Should society wait for hard scientific evidence? | |
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| Politics and science | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |