#A Vast Machine: Computer Models Climate Data and the Politics of Global Warming

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

by Paul N. Edwards

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Synopsis : 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.

 Details : Author : Paul N. Edwards Pages : 518 pages Publisher : MIT Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0262518635 ISBN-13 : 9780262518635Reading Download Pdf Epub

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For both, architecture and climate, material for modeling or data isn’t collected - it is made.

Carson Chan: Cloud Formations: Climate Change and the Figuration of Community. In: Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2016. In his article Chan refers to Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010)

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