A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
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- Paperback
518 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2013
Summary
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 coll…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518635 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518635 |
| Author: | Paul N. Edwards |
| Publisher: | MIT Press (MA) |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 518 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 885g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 150mm x 226mm |
| Series: | Infrastructures |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“This is an excellent book and a valuable resource for all sides in the debatesoverglobal warming.” – Steven Goldman , EnvironmentalHistory
¿A Vast Machine …will be readily accessible to that legendary target, the general reader… [T]he author¿s impressive scholarship and command of his material have produced a truly magisterial account.¿ ¿Richard J. Somerville, Science Magazine
Paul N. Edwards
Paul N. Edwards is Associate Professor in the School of Information 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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