Rain God

<p>Clement Wragge is sometimes remembered as the colourful and combative Australasian meteorologist whose use of people's names to nickname cyclones and storms in the 1890s caught on around the world.</p><p>Described at the height of his career as Australia's most famous man and also derisively as The Rain God Inclement Wragge set standards for a national weather service pioneered long-range forecasting and campaigned against massive land-clearing fearing this assault on nature was reducing rainfall. Years later after reinventing himself in New Zealand as a travelling science educator he was feted by the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.</p><p>This is the first full biography of Clement Wragge's rebellious and adventurous life - the strange story of a self-taught meteorologist from England's industrial Midlands a 19th century scientist with 21st century anxieties. He trusted in physics perfected by a Creator and held profound fears for humanity yet had an irrepressible faith in human ingenuity to overcome.</p>