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

Name: Vast Machine Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
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ISBN: 9780262518635

ISBN-10: 0262518635

ISBN-13: 9780262518635

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paul N. Edwards, Geoffrey C. Bowker

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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…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 546
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.02" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

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.