Hi it's Diane on my mind the promise and perils of Geoengineering last year was the hottest on record.

2024 is predicted to be another record year.

Meanwhile we're seeing the very real effects of a changing climate in more intense forest fires and more severe and unpredictable weather.

This has pushed the idea of geoengineering

or deliberately intervening employment systems closer to reality.

We might get to a point as a society and as a species where we're just desperate for anything we can do quickly to alleviate some of this warming.

Christopher Flavell is a reporter for the New York Times.

His work is part of the new series called Buying Time.

A look at the risky ways humans are starting

to manipulate nature to fight climate change.

Prist you and your colleagues at the times launched a series called Buying Time. Tell me what it's about and why now.

Sure. The goal with the series is to investigate and try to understand some of the technologies

and approaches that are being considered or even starting to be used as the world exceeds or is set to exceed

what scientists tell us are sort of a safe threshold, a safe amount of warming.

The premise of the series is that this idea of holding warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The goal set at the

Paris talks almost a decade ago, but by almost universal consensus we've passed that point.

There's it's exceedingly unlikely that the world will succeed at holding warming

to that sort of quote safe level or less disastrous level.

So the point of the series is say okay what now?

Since we know that that that goal is extremely unlikely, what are our options?

And the goal of the series is to look at what some of those perhaps more aggressive, somewhat

perhaps radical options might be, and just how likely they are to work.

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