A Vast Machine - 9780262518635
Un libro in lingua di Edwards Paul N. edito da Mit Pr, 2013
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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 measure it, traceits past, and model its future.
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- Titolo del Libro in lingua: A Vast Machine
- Sottotitolo: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Edwards Paul N.
- Editore: Mit Pr
- Collana: Mit Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 08 Febbraio '13
- Genere: TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING
- Pagine: 518
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 0
- ISBN-10: 0262518635
- EAN-13: 9780262518635