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A Vast Machine by Paul N Edwards

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.

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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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ISBN 13 9780262518635
ISBN 10 0262518635
Title A Vast Machine
Author Paul N Edwards
Series Infrastructures
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher MIT Press Ltd
Year published 2013-02-08
Number of pages 552
Prizes Winner of Winner, 2011 Computer History Museum Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Technology 2010, Winner of Winner, 2012 Louis J. Battan Author's Award, awarded by the American Meteorological Society 2010, Winner of Winner, 2010 ASLI Choice Award in the History category, awarded by Atmospheric Science Librarians International. 2010
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