66 Ways to Absorb Carbon and Improve the Earth’s Reflectivity – From Reasonable Options to Mad Scientist Solutions

How could ants save the world? Why do we need more baobab trees? Should we eat less rice or make clouds whiter, and what difference does it make? Isomäki analyzes the whole range of existing geoengineering proposals to stop global warming, their dangers and benefits. Includes also a wide range of less known ways to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

The melting of Greenland, West Antarctic ice sheets, Arctic sea ice and Siberian permafrost has caused a rapid shift in international climate debate. A growing number of leading scientists and governments are now seriously discussing and planning various emergency measures, or geoengineering solutions.

Many of the proposed schemes are almost as dangerous as the warming itself, and might actually lead to the end of the world as we know it. Safer and cheaper methods exist, but they have not received as much attention as the "mad scientist" solutions.

66 Ways to Absorb Carbon and Improve the Ea rth's Reflectivity is the first book that presents the whole range of existing geoengineering proposals and analyzes the dangers and benefits of each scheme. It also covers a wide range of less known ways to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

Risto Isomäki is a Finnish science fiction and science writer and an environmental activist. Isomäki has written four novels and eight non-fiction books about climate change, including two about trees and global warming. His books have been published in fourteen South Asian and European languages.