A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) Book

A Vast Machine 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. Full descriptionRead More

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    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.

  • 0262518635
  • 9780262518635
  • Paul N. Edwards
  • 5 March 2013
  • MIT Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 552
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