„’Meteorology is a branch of physics,’ a weather expert remarked in 1939, ‘andphysics makes use of two powerful tools: experiment and mathematics. The first ofthese tools is denied to the meteorologist and the second does not prove of muchuse to him in climatological problems.’ So many interrelated factors affected climate,he explained, that you couldn’t write it all down mathematically without makingso many implifying assumptions that the result would never match reality. It wasn’teven possible to calculate from first principles the average temperature of a place,let alone how the temperature might change in future years. And ‘without numericalvalues our deductions are only opinions.’“ (Weart 2006)
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Gramelsberger, G. (2009). Simulation - Analyse der organisationellen Etablierungsbestrebungen der epistemischen Kultur des Simulierens am Beispiel der Klimamodellierung. In: Halfmann, J., Schützenmeister, F. (eds) Organisationen der Forschung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91639-2_2
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