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

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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.

Author(s): Paul N. Edwards
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 547

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 Thinking Globally......Page 30
2 Global Space, Universal Time : Seeing the Planetary Atmosphere......Page 56
3 Standards and Networks: International Meteorology and the Réseau Mondial......Page 78
4 Climatology and Climate Change before World War II......Page 90
5 Friction......Page 112
6 Numerical Weather Prediction......Page 140
7 The Infinite Forecast......Page 168
8 Making Global Data......Page 216
9 The First WWW......Page 258
10 Making Data Global......Page 280
11 Data Wars......Page 316
12 Reanalysis: The Do-Over......Page 352
13 Parametrics and the Limits of Knowledge......Page 366
14 Simulation Models and Atmospheric Politics, 1960–1992......Page 386
15 Signal and Noise: Consensus, Controversy, and Climate Change......Page 426
Conclusion......Page 460
Notes......Page 470
Index......Page 538