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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

Paul N. Edwards
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Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case forglobal warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to waitfor real data, "sound science." In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has newsfor these skeptics: without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals orobservations -- even from satellites, which can "see" the whole planet with a singleinstrument -- 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 andinnovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere -- to measure it, traceits past, and model its future.
ISBN : 9780262013925
Year:
2010
Publisher:
MIT Press
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0262013924
ISBN 13:
9780262013925
File:
PDF, 4.95 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2010
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