Summary
Cynthia Barnett's "Rain" begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science--the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains--with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from anci... Full description
- Prologue : Origins
- I. Elemental rain : Cloudy with a chance of civilization
- Drought, deluge, and devilry
- Praying for rain
- II. Chance of rain : The weather watchers
- The articles of rain
- III. American rain : Founding forecaster
- Rain follows the plow
- The rainmakers
- IV. Capturing the rain : Writers on the storm
- The scent of rain
- City rains
- V. Mercurial rain : Strange rain
- And the forecast calls for change
- Epilogue : Waiting for rain.