Explains the fast-approaching climate crisis while drawing on the latest scientific findings to outline promising clean technologies involving soft geo-engineering.

Part One: Climate science. The weather makers: right or wrong? -- The waters of a warming world -- Ominously acidic oceans -- How are the animals doing? -- The great climate event horizon -- Part Two: The knife blade we perch on. The great disconnect -- Coal : decline of a giant -- What future, oil? -- Gas : last hurrah or bridge to the future? -- Divestment and the carbon bubble -- Where's nuclear? -- Sunlight and wind : winning the race -- At last, EVs -- Part Three: Fight for the future. Adapting? -- Geoengineering : a way out? -- The gigatonne challenge -- Silicate rocks, cement and smart chemistry -- The new carbon capture and storage -- The 2030 challenge -- Deadline 2050 -- The growing power of the individual.