9780262518635-0262518635-A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)

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

ISBN-13: 9780262518635
ISBN-10: 0262518635
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Paul N. N Edwards
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Paperback 546 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780262518635
ISBN-10: 0262518635
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Paul N. N Edwards
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Paperback 546 pages

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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) (ISBN-13: 9780262518635 and ISBN-10: 0262518635), written by authors Paul N. N Edwards, was published by The MIT Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Information Theory (Computer Science, Computer Simulation, Data Modeling & Design, Databases & Big Data, Climatology, Earth Sciences, Rivers, Nature & Ecology, History of Technology, Technology) books. You can easily purchase or rent A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Information Theory books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.3.

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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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