In Progress

The idea of re-engineering the planet used to be the stuff of science fiction, but a band of increasingly vocal scientists and other advocates – almost all male – is rapidly moving these controversial ideas from the margins to the mainstream of policy response to climate change. Some want geoengineering included in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations. Others are waiting for Copenhagen negotiations to fail in order to create a political opening for a high-risk Plan B: a climate techno-fix.