History of Meteorology Featured at HSS 2008

The History of Science Society's 2008 Annual Meeting featured many papers of interest to ICHM members.  

For the second consecutive year, the meeting began with a plenary session dedicated to the history of weather and climate. Participating in the Plenary were ICHM members James R. Fleming (Colby College),   Marilyn Gaull (Boston University), Vladimir Jankovic, (University of Manchester), Matthias Dörries (Université Louis Pasteur), Spencer R. Weart (Center for the History of Physics, AIP), and Roger D. Launius (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum).

Other papers of interest to ICHM members included:

• Deborah Coen, Barnard College, Columbia University, "The 'Social Discovery' of Global Warming"
• Elizabeth Green Musselman, Southwestern University, "Breaking Through: Meteors and Universal Knowledge in Colonial South Africa"
• Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego, "You Can Argue With the Facts: A Political History of Climate Change"
• Paul Rubinson, University of Texas, "'An Elaborate Way of Committing National Suicide': Carl Sagan, Popularization, and Nuclear Winter"
• Roger Turner, University of Pennsylvania, "Comics in the TV Weather Report" (Poster session)
• Brant Vogel, "Gentle-women at London: Gender and the Rise of the Weather Instrument"
• Karen Zwier, University of Pittsburgh, "John Dalton: From Puzzles to Chemistry by Way of Meteorology"