A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul N. EdwardsSeries:InfrastructuresAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-02-08Pages:546
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262518635ISBN-10:262518635UPC:9780262518635Book Category:Science, Technology & Engineering, ComputersBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, History, Data ScienceBook Topic:Meteorology & Climatology, Data Modeling & DesignSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SCXPQDVYHA
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
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...
Series: Infrastructures
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262518635ISBN-10:262518635UPC:9780262518635Book Category:Science, Technology & Engineering, ComputersBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, History, Data ScienceBook Topic:Meteorology & Climatology, Data Modeling & DesignSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SCXPQDVYHA
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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