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The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, is a collection of unique and immersive single subject episodes from CNN’s Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning longform storytelling team. Every week we showcase character-driven stories, special interviews, profiles, and investigative deep dives featuring reporting from CNN’s anchors and correspondents.
How to unscrew a planet
The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
Apr 25, 2023
CNN’s Bill Weir reports on how we are now firmly on the path to climate catastrophe. In the last two-years, record shattering heatwaves have fueled wildfires in North America, Germany and Belgium have seen their worst flooding in decades, and China saw a year’s rainfall in one day. The world’s top scientists are calling for the use of ‘carbon capture’, but the technology needed cannot be developed overnight. They are also considering something once considered taboo: solar geoengineering. Scientists may be able to intervene to solve the climate crisis, but at what cost?