A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Paul N. Edwards
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 measure it, traceits past, and model its future.
ISBN : 9780262013925
ISBN : 9780262013925
년:
2010
출판사:
MIT Press
언어:
english
ISBN 10:
0262013924
ISBN 13:
9780262013925
파일:
PDF, 4.95 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010