Paul N. Edwards

A Vast Machine

Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

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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 t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-262-51863-5
EAN: 9780262518635
Produktnummer: 14025567
Verlag: MIT Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 546 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.5 cm x D3.5 cm 704 g
Gewicht: 704

Über den Autor

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.