About the Book
Remember Mark Twain's complaint that everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it? Now author Victor Boesen reveals in this fascinating book that something finally is being done. Through hard work and imagination scientists are trying to subdue such ruthless destroyers as drought, tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, fog. By the year 2000, predicts Boesen, man will have gained major control over weather conditions that every year take thousands of lives and destroy food and property worth billions of dollars. Here is the absorbing story of experiments with such magic tools as silver iodide, which eventually mav lead to solving many of the greatest problems of our environment. (published 1975)
Copyright © 1975 by Victor Boesen
All rights reserved.
1. Looking Ahead
2. Garden in Space
3. Dry Weather
4. The Rainmakers
5. The Weather Machine
6. Hurricanes
7. Hail
8. Lightning
9. Tornadoes
10. Fog
11. New Ice Age?
12. Skylab
The Author
Victor Boesen who started his career writing for news
papers and the radio, has published numerous magazine
articles and several books. Doing Something About the
Weather is his second for G. P. Putnam's. Mr. Boesen grew
up on a dairy farm at Greencastle, Indiana, where he observed at firsthand man's dependence on the weather.