One way to fix an accidentally altered climate is to alter it again deliberately22 November 2023What a difference a decade makes. That, roughly, is how often the Open Science Conference, run by the World Climate Research Programme (wcrp), comes along. At the previous get-together in 2011, says Jim Hurrell, a climate scientist and wcrp member, almost no one was talking about geoengineering. This is the idea of deliberately meddling with the Earth’s climate to try to make it cooler, and thus ...