Owning the climate: Will geoengineering help combat climate change?

That’s in part because the “Conference of Parties” negotiations have taken so long. After 17 years, the basic issues remain to be addressed, and overall emissions have grown since 2000

“Geoengineering is plan B,” says oceanographer John Shepherd of the U.K’s Royal Society of plans to deliberately tinker with the planet’s climate. “It’s not to be adopted unless absolutely necessary.”