Prinn's quote is via Oliver Morton. See Fleming, Fixing the Sky p. 225
*How can you engineer a system whose behavior you don’t understand?* —Ron Prinn, quoted in Morton, “Climate Change” Of course, this begs the question of someday gaining better understanding. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:45 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. > > > -- James Fleming STS Program Colby College 5881 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901 Ph: 207-859-5881 Fax: 207-859-5846 Web: http://www.colby.edu/profile/jfleming <http://web.colby.edu/jfleming> -- 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.
