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

Edwards, Paul N.

ISBN 10: 0262518635 / ISBN 13: 9780262518635

Verlag: MIT Press, Cambridge, 2010

Beschreibung

8vo, 518 pp.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 115979

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
• Verlag: MIT Press, Cambridge
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0262518635
• ISBN-13: 9780262518635
• Bindung: softcover
• Ausgabe: Later prt.
• Zustand: Fine copy
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Natural History

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.