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

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

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global
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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming Hardback - 2010

by Edwards, Paul N

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The MIT Press, 2010. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. (1st edition, 1st printing) Large, sturdy book, smooth black covers, very bright silver lettering on spine, 518 pages with photographs ad charts. DJ glossy black beneath mylar with three color photographs of the Blue Earth from space. DJ and book, both As New.

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  • Title A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
  • Author Edwards, Paul N
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 546
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The MIT Press
  • Publication date 2010
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 58647
  • ISBN 9780262518635 / 0262518635
  • Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.4 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 3.56 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Weather forecasting, Global temperature changes
  • Dewey Decimal Code 551.63
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Ecology

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From the publisher

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.

About the author

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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