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The logistics of covering one million square miles with light refracting lenses are astronomical.
Can customised clouds help to reflect more sunlight and therefore cool the planet?
Could a simple 'Carbon Scrubber' be the answer to cleaning our atmosphere of excess Carbon emissions?
The Discovery team need to find the perfect delivery system for bombing seedlings from an aircraft to achieve perfect reforesting conditions.
Using Salt Flares the Discovery team test if it is possible to seed or even create Marine Stratocumulus Clouds. These clouds could help reflect the suns rays and therefore combat global warming.
The Discovery Team look at how a worldwide reforestation effort could help to combat carbon emissions.
The best place to test the effectiveness of a reflective blanket on a glacier is also a most unstable and dangerous place, a Melt Lake.
During an experiment to see if a reflective blanket can protect a Glacier from melting the team must first test the local envirnment for danger.
Phytoplankton produce about 90% of the atmosphere's oxygen whilst absorbing carbon dioxide. Dr Brian Von Herzong wants to increase the population of these plankton to battle the effects of carbon emissions.
Mark Hodges has a radical yet simple idea for swift reforestation of the worlds lost forests: delivering seedlings via mass airdrops.
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