Book ID: CBB001022403

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010)

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Edwards, Paul N. (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xxviii + 518 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Fleming, James Rodger
Heymann, Matthias
Jankovic, Vladimir
Anduaga Egaña, Aitor
Boykoff, Maxwell T.
Golinski, Jan V.
Journals
History of Meteorology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Environment and History
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
American Meteorological Society
University of California, Santa Cruz
Columbia University Press
Duke University Press
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Climate and climatology
Meteorology
Weather forecasting
Earth sciences
Computer simulation
Global warming
People
Callendar, Guy Stewart
Rossby, Carl-Gustav
Friedman, Robert Marc
Von Neumann, John
Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Yugoslavia
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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