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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) ハードカバー – 2010/4/30

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Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case forglobal warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to waitfor real data, "sound science." In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has newsfor these skeptics: without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals orobservations -- even from satellites, which can "see" the whole planet with a singleinstrument -- 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 andinnovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere -- to measure it, traceits past, and model its future.

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518ページ
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Mit Pr
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16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
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0262013924
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978-0262013925
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"[A] stimulating, well-written analysis... a visual feast." -- Ronald E. Doel, American Historical Review "This is an excellent book and a valuable resource for all sides in the debatesover global warming." -- Steven Goldman, Environmental History "[A] a compelling account of how political and scientific institutions, observation networks, and scientific practice evolved together over several centuries to culminate in the global knowledge infrastructure we have today." -- Chad Monfreda, Review of Policy Research " A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul Edwards is an outstanding example of the potential for historians to contribute to broader public debates and give non-specialists insight into the work done by scientists and the process by which computer simulation has transformed scientific practice." -- Thomas Haigh, Communications of the ACM "A 2010 Book of the Year" -- The Economist "A thorough and dispassionate analysis by a historian of science and technology, Paul Edwards' book is well timed. Although written before the University of East Anglia e-mail leak, it anticipates many of the issues raised by the 'climategate' affair. [...] A Vast Machine puts the whole affair into historical context and should be compulsory reading for anyone who now feels empowered to pontificate on how climate science should be done." -- Myles Allen, Nature "A Vast Machine...will be readily accessible to that legendary target, the general reader... The author's impressive scholarship and command of his material have produced a truly magisterial account." -- Richard J. Somerville, Science Magazine "I recommend this book with considerable enthusiasm. Although it's a term reviewers have made into a cliche, I think A Vast Machine is nothing less than a tour de force. It is the most complete and balanced description we have of two sciences whose results and recommendations will, in the years ahead, be ever more intertwined with the decisions of political leaders and the fate of the human species." -- Noel Castree, American Scientist "On the whole, this is a very good and informative read on the problems in atmospheric modeling and the way computers are--and have been--used in the process." -- Jeffrey Putnam, Computing Reviews

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Paul N. Edwards is Associate Professor in the School of Information 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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出版社 ‏ : ‎ Mit Pr (2010/4/30)
発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2010/4/30
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 518ページ
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262013924
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262013925
寸法 ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm

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Pretty heavy reading, but well worth it if you wish to understand the relationship between meteorology, climate science, and data collection and processing. All three have evolved together and only as computer processing power has become significant have we been able to gather really clear pictures of how complex Earth's environment is and gain a more profound understanding of how it works and how our human activity influences it.

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Do you or anyone you know want to understand the current "debate" over climate change and our contribution to it? And to comprehend the evolution of climate science, data collection, and computer modeling that underlies this, and indeed must underly any sensible discussion of a "global economy" and other "global" developments. This book is a lucid, intellectually thrilling and magisterial account of how climate science has evolved over the past 150 years, showing how early visionaries and decades of dedicated work on collecting information on the "vast machine" of weather and climate resulted in a "vast machine" of computer-based understanding was created, has transformed the answers to fundamental questions of "what we mean" and "how do we know." No one should graduate from college without reading this book, and no one should consider him/herself conversant with the current terms of political debate without reading this book. The Economist listed this among its best books of 2010. It should be on a list of best of the past decade--and most important!

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Ross Stevens

"A Vast Machine":- a great resource for those interested in climate change skepticism

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This is an excellent summary of the evolution of the science behind weather and climate.
Reading and understanding of this history, gives the lie to those climate change 'denialists' (- for want of a better word) who carry on about inadequate or fudged data, or how computer models of the behaviour of the earth's atmosphere produce rubbish, or at least misleading results.h

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Nirmalan Dhas

DEEP INFORMATION AND DEFINITIONS OF DATA AND INFRASTRUCTURE

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The Author revisits the definitions of infrastructure and data at depths that I personally have not encountered before and his articulations have considerably enriched my understanding of both these concepts and helped me better perceive their roles in several fields: infrastructure in the area of networking and data in the field of climate science. Having read this book I now perceive infrastructure as including perceptual structures that influence and constrain our perceptions and I understand data as being generated through perceptual processes.

The authors portrayal of the meteorological weather forecasting networks enables the perception of their growing across the face of earth and linking up to form a global network that generated the World Meteorological Organization in 1950 and the Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988 gives a clear portrayal of the rising of a Global Network of scientists capable of perceiving planetary processes and providing the human species with strategic guidance.

These perceptions and their articulation are nested in a bed of very deep and detailed information regarding data, data generating methodologies and processes as well as significant events that every serious student of climate sciences will benefit from familiarizing themselves with.

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Climate Modeling: the best introduction

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Paul Edwards has done a great public service by writing A Vast Machine. By reading this book you will come to understand and appreciate the enormous effort that has been put into gathering weather and climate data and processing it to give us insight into what to expect. You'll learn about making "data global" and then making "global data." You'll be able to answer critics who say "It's just modeling. It's not real." They don't know what they're talking about. You will. What we need to do about climate change including global warming is far too important to be decided on the basis on mindless 30-second sound bites or well-paid talk show hosts telling their listeners not to pay any heed to the thousands of scientists who actually know something about the problem. Reading A Vast Machine will require some effort, but you can skip some of the more technical parts without losing the main message. I strongly recommend it.

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