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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) by Paul N. Edwards is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) about?

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.

Who reads A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)?

Author

Paul N. Edwards

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262518635

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Engineering