From the New York Times, I'm Catran Benhold. This is the Daily.

After failing for decades to cut carbon emissions enough to stop the planet from dangerously overheating,

scientists are increasingly looking at backup measures, some that would fight the warming

by intervening in the climate itself.

Today, my colleague Christopher Flavell on the efforts to engineer

our way out of the climate crisis. It's Friday, April 5th.

So Chris, you've been

So Chris, you've been covering climate change for a while, but recently you've been focused on a very special project.

Tell us about this.

Yeah, two things have been happening in climate change recently that are really important.

Number one, records have been falling at alarming rates.

Last year was again the hottest year on record.

Much the world surpassed this sort of important threshold of 1.5 degrees

Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

So the world is getting warmer at an alarming rate.

At the same time, emissions aren't falling, right?

The message of the last generation has been,

we need to cut emissions, really to almost zero by the end of the century and in fact the reverse is happening

emissions are continuing to rise at the same time the number and characteristics of weather disasters have become really alarming.

So the effects of that warming have become really clear, and it's clear that the world is struggling to adapt to those effects.

So the other thing that's happening is sort of a high level is there's more research and more consideration of, okay, what if we can't cut emissions

pass enough?

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