{"product_id":"a-vast-machine-paul-n-edwards-9780262518635","title":"A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal 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 \u003ci\u003eA Vast Machine\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul N. Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262518635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262518635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.40d","brand":"Paul N. Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131842785535,"sku":"9780262518635","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_737fae86-3528-4478-a46e-2365079e0581.jpg?v=1687476718","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-vast-machine-paul-n-edwards-9780262518635","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}