A Vast Machine Computer Models Climate Data and the Politics of Global Warming 1st Edition by Paul NN Edwards ISBN 0262290715 9780262290715

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ISBN 10: 0262290715

ISBN 13: 9780262290715

Author:  Paul N. N Edwards 

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming 1st Edition: 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.

 

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Thinking Globally
Chapter 2 Global Space, Universal Time
Chapter 3 Standards and Networks
Chapter 4 Climatology and Climate Change before World War II
Chapter 5 Friction
Chapter 6 Numerical Weather Prediction
Chapter 7 The Infinite Forecast
Chapter 8 Making Global Data
Chapter 9 The First WWW
Chapter 10 Making Data Global
Chapter 11 Data Wars
Chapter 12 Reanalysis: The Do-Over
Chapter 13 Parametrics and the Limits of Knowledge
Chapter 14 Simulation Models and Atmospheric Politics
Chapter 15 Signal and Noise

 

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