A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure...
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Author: Paul N. Edwards
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Edwards, Paul N.

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

€79,47

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

€79,47
Author: Paul N. Edwards
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.

Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, "sound science." In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has news for these skeptics: without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals or observations--even from satellites, which can "see" the whole planet with a single instrument--becomes global in time and space without passing through a series of data models. Everything we know about the world's climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere--to measure it, trace its past, and model its future.



Author: Paul N. Edwards
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 02/08/2013
Pages: 518
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780262518635
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Edwards, Paul N.: - Paul N. Edwards is Professor in the School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (1996) and a coeditor (with Clark Miller) of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (2001), both published by the MIT Press.

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