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b"Does geoengineering offer a Plan B if nations at the U.N. climate meeting can't reduce carbon emissions? The Glasgow meeting has been called \\u201cthe last best chance\\u201d to take measures to slow down global heating.\\xa0But we're nowhere near to achieving the emission reductions necessary to stave off a hothouse planet. We consider both the promise and the perils of geoengineering, and ask who decides about experimenting with Earth\\u2019s climate.\\nGuests:\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Elizabeth Kolbert \\u2013 Staff Writer at The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \\u201cThe Sixth Extinction,\\u201d and, most recently, of \\u201cUnder a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.\\u201d\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0David Keith \\u2013 Professor of public policy and applied physics at Harvard University who also participates in the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPex) geoengineering project.\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Kim Cobb \\u2013 Professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech, and the director of its Global Change Program.\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"