02048nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10424687 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090814s2010 mauab sb 001 0 eng 2009030678 GBB021666 bnb 015483352 Uk 9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)671647741 QC995 .E296 2010eb 551.63 22 Edwards, Paul N. A vast machine [electronic resource] : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / Paul N. Edwards. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-507) and index. Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the R�eseau Mondial -- Climatology and climate change before World War II -- Friction -- Numerical weather prediction -- The infinite forecast -- Making global data -- The first WWW -- Making data global -- Data wars -- Reanalysis : the do-over -- Parametrics and the limits of knowledge -- Simulation models and atmospheric politics, 1960-1992 -- Signal and noise : consensus, controversy, and climate change. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Weather forecasting. Climatology History. Meteorology History. Climatology Technological innovations. Global temperature changes. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10424687 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 143533 143533