Reviews

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

eroston's review against another edition

Hack the Planet is a superbly written and reported chronicle 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 deeply researched on this topic than Superfreakonomics. Expect to hear much more in coming years from the planet-hackers–and from Kintisch.

draeprice's review against another edition

3.0

This book is good when it's explaining the different geoengineering schemes, but bogs down in personalities and politics.