CBS (in the US) has a usually thoughtful political TV drama called Madame Secretary. In the latest episode, the heroine, the US Sec of State, has to brainstorm solutions to melting permafrost in Russia and elsewhere releasing smallpox and other pathogens. They abandon the ideas of mylar sheet over the permafrost and SRM. But their wonder-kid suggest re-introducing large Arctic herbivores to create holes in the snow to allow the cold Arctic wind to keep the permafrost frozen.
Strength: This is one of the very few cases where climate disasters seem to be mention in primetime US TV. Questions: I’m familiar with the melting permafrost-pathogen situation and the methane situation but this fictional solution doesn’t seem very convincing. Is it even feasible? (If you subscribe to CBS Access you can get to the latest episode called North to the Future. You ***might**** also find it on youtube.com. Its also possible that people outside the US get CBS shows on Netflix.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
