Just what you wanted to hear on a holiday: thanks to a lack of political action, the controversial practice of geoengineering, or intentionally modifying the global environment, may be the only way to combat climate change in a necessary time frame, according to a group of scientists. Researchers Brian Launder of the University of Manchester and Michael Thompson of the University of Cambridge have published a series of papers in the U.K.’s Royal Society that call for a serious look at a variety of extreme measures to stabilize global warming, like seeding the oceans with iron, injecting sulphur into the upper atmosphere, and creating fake clouds over the sea.
