A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262518635 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 546 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Paul N.
Good history of models and politics of climate change. Author gives an excellent account of the history of weather and climate modeling and the general circulation models. There is very little technical content of any detail. I bought Kindle version and do not recommend it. In the Kindle version, the footnotes are not linked and the inde. Understand the Roots of Our Understanding Understanding how we know about climate, and even what it means to know about climate and climate change, is essential if we are to have an informed debate. This is far and away the best book I have read on the infrastructure behind our knowledge of climate change, how that infrastru. The Bible of modern climate science Prof. Edwards not only manages to compress a graduate-level course into a book that you can actually pick up, he does it with such clarity and style that you can't put it down. If the amateurs who claim to "audit" climatological data and models would only spend a couple of days readi
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. 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: withou
(Chad Monfreda Review of Policy Research)A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul Edwards is an outstanding example of the potential for historians to contribute to broader public debates and give non-specialists insight into the work done by scientists and the process by which computer simulation has transformed scientific practice. (Myles Allen Nature)A Vast Machinewill be readily accessible to that lege