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

Edwards, Paul N. N

 
9780262518635: A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)

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The 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.

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About the Author

Paul N. 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.

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ISBN 10:  0262013924 ISBN 13:  9780262013925
Publisher: MIT Press, 2010
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