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Knowledge from a vast effort

01 Sep 2010

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and The Politics of Global Warming
Paul N Edwards
2010 MIT Press
£24.95/$32.95 hb 518pp

Weather men
In climate science as in quantum mechanics, the observer is part of the system being observed. We ca

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Rasmus Benestad is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo, Norway
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