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A VAST MACHINE
COMPUTER MODELS, CLIMATE DATA, AND THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING |
| By: |
Paul N. Edwards |
| Format: |
Online resource |
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£37.14 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0262294109 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262294102 |
| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
11 September, 2017 |
| Series: |
Infrastructures |
| Pages: |
552 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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74 b&w illus. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
MIT Press |
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Non-returnable |
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