Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope - or Worst Nightmare - for Averting Climate Catastrophe

"Hack the Planet reads like a sci-fi novel.But it's all the scarier because it's true."
—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

"Anyone who considers themselves scientifically literate had better get versed in the new discipline of geoengineering—or planethacking, as Eli Kintisch calls it in this nuanced and useful new account. This discussion is not going to go away anytime soon!"
—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

"As climate change goes unmitigated and continues to worsen,it seems we can no longer avoid a public debate on the prospect of planetary geoengineering—doing something probably bad to the planet to avert something even worse. It will be an Earth-changing discussion, and no one should feel competent to participate without having first read Eli Kintisch's Hack the Planet, an indispensable introduction to the topic. The scientific ideas he explains and characters he depicts are compelling and occasionally riveting."
—Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and coauthor of Unscientific America

"Hack the Planet is a superbly written and reportedchronicle of a remarkable story. In just a few years, 'geoengineering' fixes to climate change—simulating volcanoes, CO2-sucking, cloud-brightening—have gone from crackpot to considered ideas. Eli Kintisch's book is boundlessly smarter and more deeplyresearched on this topic than SuperFreakonomics. Expect to hear much more in coming years from the planet-hackers—and from Kintisch."
—Eric Roston, author of The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat