Science: Weather Control?

In the technological millennium that scientists have promised civilization after the war, Professor Albert Eide Parr, director of the American Museum of Natural History, believes that at last something can be done about the weather. He thinks that cities can be planned with built-in climate control.

Addressing the graduating class at University of Chicago's Institute of Meteorology, Professor Parr observed indignantly that scientists have done practically nothing about the weather. "Our relations to the forces of weather and climate," said he, "are still in the most primitive cultural stage."

Oceanographer Parr's own...

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