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

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The science in the back of global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to take into account the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.

Global warming skeptics steadily fall back at the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we want to look forward to real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has news for these skeptics: without models, there are no data. As of late, no number of signals or observations — even from satellites, which can “see” the entire planet with a single instrument — becomes global in time and space without passing through a series of data models. The whole lot we know about the world’s climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging and innovative history of how scientists learned to take into account the atmosphere — to measure it, trace its past, and model its future.

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