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This summer, countries across the world have experienced extreme weather events.

Flash floods have killed people in South Korea, Uganda, Australia and the US state of Kentucky, and heatwaves have broken records across Western Europe, North America and Japan.

However, countries across the world are developing ways to try to tame the weather. China, the UAE and the USA are at the forefront of research into methods of producing rain in drought-stricken areas.

And some scientists are thinking even bigger; investigating technologies which could cool the entire planet.\n \nThis week, the Inquiry asks: Can we control the weather?

Contributors:\nDr Rob Thompson, University of Reading\nProfessor Katja Friedrich, University of Colorado, Boulder\nProfessor David Keith, Harvard University \nProfessor Elizabeth Chalecki, University of Nebraska Omaha

Presenter: Charmaine Cozier\nProducer: Ravi Naik\nResearchers: Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty and Christopher Blake \nTechnical producer: Nicky Edwards\nBroadcast coordinator: Brenda Brown

Image: Hands cradling a lightning storm (Credit: Getty Images)