The context of course is that we are already interfering in Earth's climate system in a major way ... we are already throwing sand in the gears.
Model results indicate that throwing some oil on the gears will help make the clock run smoothly, despite not knowing how all the gears really fit together. When efforts to stop throwing sand fail, where does hubris lie? Does it reside in the person who wants to consider oiling the gears or in the person who claims a priori that their heightened ethical sensitivity demands that the gears not be oiled (as we watch the clockwork mechanism grind to a halt)? On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Fred Zimmerman <[email protected]>wrote: > From scott Rosenberg, who moderated last week's Caldeira/Hamilton event: > > http://grist.org/climate-energy/geoengineering-research-never-or-now/ > > Hamilton’s *Earthmasters* book quotes Lawrence Livermore Labs scientist > Lowell Wood: “We’ve engineered every other environment we live in — why not > the planet?” > > If the hubris there is too much for you, Hamilton balances it with a line > from another scientist, Ron Prinn: “How can you engineer a system you don’t > understand?” > > --- > Fred Zimmerman > Geoengineering IT! > Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology > GE NewsFilter: http://geoengineeringIT.net:8080 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
