Plan B
Is geoengineering crazy enough to work? Or just plain crazy?
Ever since the threat of climate change was first made public, scientists have offered the possibility of a get-out-of-jail-free card: geoengineering. While reducing emissions is hard and complicated, why not just engineer the Earth's atmosphere in the meantime?
Decades later, the science of geoengineering is still in its infancy, but a growing number of researchers are trying to change that. Should they?
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Outside/In was produced this week by Sam Evans-Brown with help from: Erika Janik, Maureen McMurray, Taylor Quimby, Justine Paradis, Hannah McCarthy, Jimmy Gutierrez, and Samantha Searles.
Special thanks to Jane Long and Lizzie Burns.
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