Paul N. Edwards: A Vast Machine
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- Kategoria: luonnontieteet, alakategoria: fyysinen maantiede, geologia
- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: MIT Press
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780262518635
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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.