# A Vast Machine

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- Book: [A Vast Machine](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-n-edwards/a-vast-machine) ([A Vast Machine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-n-edwards/a-vast-machine.md))
- Authors: [Paul N. Edwards](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-n-edwards)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6251-863-5
- Pages: 546
- Published: 2013-02-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. Global warming skeptics often fall back...