The Wire

Huge contraptions that would suck co2 from the air, machines that would brighten clouds to deflect sunlight from the earth, artificial volcanoes spraying heat reflecting particles into the atmosphere… these are just some of the seemingly crazy ideas that journalist Jeff Goodell has tracked in his new book – How to cool the planet. It explores the world of geo-engineering …an emerging area of science that springs from our failure to address climate change to date, and the many scientists who are now saying we can’t stop climate change so we have to find other ways to cool the planet – or face disaster. But if we can’t even agree that climate change real, how will ever agree to go ahead with these kind of sci-fi sounding ideas?