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Pacala, Stephen, 263 production, as intervention strategy,
Page, Geraldine, 41 235–236
Panama Canal, 35 Project Cirrus, 101, 149–153, 152, 155–157, 158,
Paradise Lost (Milton), 10, 19–20 159, 186
patents, 264–265 Project Gromet, 182
pathological science, 138–139 Project High Water, 219
Pazniak, Zianon, 162–165 Project Plowshare, 199
Pell, Claiborne, 182–183 Project Popeye, 179–182, 184, 241
Penner, Stanford Solomon, 243, 254 Project Stormfury, 166, 177–179, 186
Pentagon Papers, 179 Project West Ford (Project Needles), 211,
permafrost, 203–204, 208, 227 219, 234
Persian Gulf War I, 185 protection, as intervention strategy, 235–236
petroleum burners, 129–132 Provaqua, 11, 104–106
Petroleum Warfare Department (PWD), PSAC. See President’s Science Advisory
128 Committee
Petterssen, Sverre, 100, 156–157, 173 Purchase of the North Pole, The (Verne),
Phaethon, 10, 16–18, 17, 255, 264 26–27, 27, 48, 201
Phillips, Norman, 215 Purdue University, 139
Philosophy of Storms, The (Espy), 56 Putin, Vladimir, 254
plankton, blooms of, 2, 249–250, 259 PWD. See Petroleum Warfare Department
Plass, Gilbert, 237, 239
Player Piano (Vonnegut), 46 Quinn, Daniel, 22–24, 47
Plutarch, 61
pluviculture, 4, 107 radar, 108, 134, 169, 214
pollution, 217–218; control of, 241; global Radford, W. H., 123
warming and, 238; light, 233–234; from Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
rifle system, 247–249. See also green- Laboratory, 140, 192
house gases radium, 103
Pons, Stanley, 139 RAF. See Royal Air Force
popularizations, 194–196 rain gauges, 51
Popular Mechanics (magazine), 142 “Rain King, The” (Leslie), 58–59
Popular Science Monthly (magazine), 117, 196 “Rain-Maker, The” (Wilson), 38–39, 48
Porky Pig, 44 Rainmaker, The (Nash), 10, 40–42, 48, 95
Porky the Rain-Maker (film), 44, 48 Rainmakers, The (Spence), 9
Powell, John Wesley, 66 rainmaking: cartoonists’ take on, 43, 72, 117,
power plants, 263; hydroelectric, 171; 118, 161; categories of, 47; early efforts
nuclear, 162 at, 4; electrified sand and, 120–122;
Powers, Edward, 61–63, 67, 74, 81 examination of, 106–107; from fires, 54;
prayer, 47, 78 in Kansas, 86–89; in Nebraska, 86–89;
precipitation static, 139 practicality of, 235–236
predictions. See forecasting Rain Making and Other Weather Vagaries
President’s Science Advisory Committee (Humphreys), 47
(PSAC), 6, 213, 238 Rakipova, Larisa R., 203
prevention, as intervention strategy, 235–236 RAND Corporation, 212, 238

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