Come on. Next friends. Could never love anyone except. Coming up. On the whole story. Such an amazing sensation. Welcome in the sky. The world is in such a difficult position. The lake used to go half a mile around the corner mad and go, go kill that thing. Good evening. Welcome to the whole story. Im anderson cooper. Tonight we take you on a journey around the world to meet people fighting against something that can be seen or touched, but his threatening our planet and the way we live more than a trillion tons of carbon gas has been released into our seas and skies over time. It comes from a lot of different sources, but the biggest is burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat and transportation. But tonight, cnns chief climate correspondent, bill weir, has found some reasons to hope. Some unique ways innovators are trying to capture contained and reduce carbon emissions. They are climate warriors, and they just may show us how to unscrew a planet. Attention humans of earth got good news and bad news. Good news is that the combined sweat and brilliance of the 117 billion or so people who have ever lived has created miracles. Machines to make Machines Production to expand production and wonders faster, better and better. Life is longer and less brutal than ever before. And for those fortunate few at the top what a time to be alive. Heres the bad news. The way weve built this modern world. Screwed up the natural world. Big time. I realized that the situation was even worse than we thought. Few generations managed to dig pump and burn enough of the planets insides. Upset everything outside. Its a godzilla. Its burning forest down. Its stealing our fish. Human success released a monster made of more than a trillion tons of carbon into the sea and sky. Its like ruining everything that we love. Right get mad and go, go kill that thing. Its very good for the first time after is one ton system capturing Carbon Dioxide from seawater. There is a trillion dollar race to defeat it a couple of containers in a parking lot. Should i be depressed by that . Or you can view it as an opportunity removal chopping godzilla down. We got this 400 ft. Tall lizard, and were just chopping that thing down. Its happening on Fishing Boats in maine little carbon sucking machines and garages in Silicon Valley. This is the first system that we will be deploying in the field. And all around the world. Brilliant people are searching for new ways to Mission Control to fix old mistakes. Solution plan is to produce plastic from cassava starch. Some think the solutions are all around us. If you let go of the old beliefs, then you can take all the new opportunities or the new solutions. Others believe weve wasted too much time and must figure out how to literally turned down the sun. We call It Climate Intervention , climate intervention, while both science and evidence tell us the future is screwed. This is a search for hope. And ideas. It is a still chris morning in greer, switzerland. And the most accomplished ahronot in the world. Has agreed to give me a lift. In more ways than one. Get used to that. Everybody is ready. Ready . Bill ready . Mercy by revoir. Oh, my god. Its such an amazing sensation. Welcome in the sky. This is so amazing. I love good winning, but not so much as a sport more as a philosophy. Philosophy of life. When you fly in a balloon, you are pushed by the winds there with the unknown. And your only way to steer the balloon. Is to change your altitude to take another wind, another wind layer that has another direction. And in life. Its exactly what we have to do. I gotta say this is a blessed departure from life on the climate beat. Lovers, your friend bill cnn. Because our overheating earth. Is breaking records like a broken record. Three ft of storm surge is enough. To destroy lives from the cost of storms. To the rate of polar melt. To the extreme droughts on four continents. The lake used to go half a mile around the corner. And now it starts way back here. I cannot believe this. All of it predicted by scientists for generations as humanity burned enough coal, oil and gas to blanket the earth and planet cooking pollution. And every second that blanket put as much extra heat into the oceans. As five hiroshima sized atomic bombs five per second. Oil. And despite all the warning signs, global commitments seemed to crumble with each Trade War Ground war. Energy crisis. Major Oil Companies posted another round of staggering profits. Next to the lake of gri ev, but through it all, Bertrand Piccard remains a happy climate warrior. Thanks to one hell of a life story. The gondola of the stratosphere balloon. His grandfather was one of the first two people to fly a balloon to the stratosphere. Flight ends after reaching 10. 5 miles above the earth. His father, one of the first two to take a sub to the oceans deepest trench. Its a legacy so impressive that when star trek created a new captain they named him, picard. You see the balloon quite high over the top of the mountain. Thats where i took off to fly around the world nonstop. After conquering his childhood fear of heights with acrobatic hang gliding and a degree in psychiatry, bertrand lived up to the family legacy in a big way. Record setting balloonist Bertrand Piccard and brian jones became the first aviators to fly a Hot Air Balloon around the world. Do you think you could have made your trip around the world if you werent a trained psychiatrist . Honestly im not sure it helps so much. It helped in terms of calling my certitudes into question. When you do a record what happens . You just try to beat somebody who has done something. You do it about the same way just a little bit better. When you want to go around the world nonstop. When nobody has done it, you have to invent a complete new strategy. Breitling orbiter burned about four tons of carbon over 20 days aloft. Constant blast of that burner got him thinking about making the same trip powered only by clean, quiet sunlight. 17 years and 170 million later. He actually did it. Speak to you from the cockpit of Solar Impulse in the middle of the Pacifico Flying On Solar Power only no fuel. The most extraordinary moment with so impulse is when i was watching the big propellers turning left and right with no fuel. No noise, no pollution, and i could fly as long as i wanted. And at this moment, i understood that it was not the future. I was in the present. And then i understood how much the rest of the world was in the past. When you are in this. Moment of complete elation with Renewable Energies technologies. Youre flying. Without pollution. Then you think wow, the rest of the world has Combustion Engines that have a bad efficiency, old polluting Industrial Systems burning fossil fuels really crazy. Years later as he was on stage at a climate conference, watching eyes glaze over, decided to change altitude and attitude once again. Okay. I have to come now with something that will wake them up. And this is when i said i make you the promise today that i will come with more than 1000 solutions that protect the environment and make it economical sense. And then they all woke up. Then the old started to a plowed and here was the challenge just had to go do it right and then we had to do it. The Solar Impulse foundation has now audited and endorsed over 1400 products and ideas. Like wave roller, which passed a two year Test Capturing Wave Energy for a town in portugal and could soon scale up to power, entire ports and spain and you be cute, which turns garbage and even dirty diapers into a replacement for plastic Champions Companies that make green concrete and crop boosting Bio Stimulants and refurbished cell phones and believes that this is just the beginning. Clean tech revolution. All these things together makes a huge difference. Its like the metaphor of the piranha. If you have a pure and, uh this little fish that bites you in the river, south america, you dont feel it. Its too small. But if you have 1000 450 of them who are coming at once you are a skeleton in three minutes, and this is what we have to do. Against pollution against Climate Change against depletion of natural resources. We have to put all these Solutions Together and each one will bite a little bit of pollution, inefficiency or problem. But while the card uses balloon and piranha metaphors to spread his gospel of techno optimism others look at the speed of the gathering crisis. Compare our situation to a very sick patient. Running out of time. If you think about it, like, uh, complex problem like the human body where youve got heat stress on the system, and you may need some Emergency Medicine for a while. Coming up. How Emergency Medicine for planet earth. Could be found in the clouds. 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Like most of the prettiest spots on the planet. The Gulf Of Maine is one of those places that makes guys my age wistful. I think its nice now, they say. Man when i was a kid, this place was absolutely alive with Fishing Boats going out to sea. Coming to the Fish Exchange freighted with fish. I couldnt start working with everyone until, like a jump from boat to boat to boat because theyre stacked up. That was a test. Remember that really well . Little marty, oddly, was that kid jumping boats. This one doc in portland would move hundreds of thousands of cod a day and he was certain he would grow up chasing mackerel on a rig. Huge call the running tide. Your dream was to have a boat. I just wanted to vote. I really just wanted a boat. What i wanted to do was go macro fishing, trying to figure out how i could do it, and i just couldnt make the math work on, you know financially just because the risks the Climate Risks were so high. There just arent any mackerel. They swim north. They swim east and theyre now probably have an iceland and theyre actually swimming past iceland. While he was studying Robotic Engineering At Dartmouth and Earth Systems at columbia. He realized a Man Made Monster was destroying his beloved Gulf Of Maine. Warming it up at a rate now faster than 95 of the rest of the world. Its a godzilla. Theres this thing out there, and its like ruining everything that we love. Right all the good stuff is getting ruined all the stuff thats free and fun. Its burning forest down. Its stealing our fish, devastating our crops. Its hurting our farmers. Get mad and go, go kill that thing, right . And right there on a docking main. Martys metaphor is a lightbulb moment for me whole new way to think about a giant problem that began when people figured out how to move lots and lots of carbon that stuff of ancient life. From the slow cycle locked and rock and under oceans into the fast cycle. In the sea water and the sky and weve moved so much, carlin. That monster now weighs a trillion tons, give or take more than every living thing on earth. So not only do we have to stop making the monster bigger. We have to catch it, chop it up and bury the pieces back into these slow cycle was something called Carbon Removal. Removal chopping godzilla down. We got this 400 ft. Tall lizard, and were just chopping that thing down. Thats what removal is. So instead of skippering a couple of fishermen in a boat called running tide, he hired a dozen ph. D s and started an ocean repair Company Called running tide instead of fishing, mackerel, they hunt godzilla. Four years ago, and you talk about Carbon Removal. Everyone think youre totally insane. Like people just like what are you talking about . Carbon dioxide removal could create the biggest industry youve never heard of it. Its one reason controversial Billionaire Elon Musk kicked in 100 million for the carbon x prize. A competition to chop down and bury 1000 tons of godzilla in a year. Cheaply as possible. Marty is in the competition with his plan to harness the Engineering Genius of nature. Well explain his innovations in a minute. But in case you want to check the math of a fisherman scientist lets hop across the pond. To cambridge university. If we were to reduce emissions to zero tomorrow, not necessary to zero. Were still cooked. David king went from Teaching Chemistry at cambridge to a post as the uks top Science Advisor and later the countrys lead climate negotiator. But after a decade he realized that geopolitics and Oil Lobbyists were eating up too much precious time. My own solution is 197 nations will never get agreement on how we have an orderly transition. So he went back to cambridge, form the center for climate repair and now hopes to enlist. Some very big and powerful partners. And its all based on a recent understanding of the function of wales in the ocean plan is called marine biomass regeneration. And starts by spraying the deep oceans with gigatons of artificial whale poop. Now the question is, where does the fishies the artificial features come from . Right thats one of many questions i have. But lets start with that one. He explains that when people drove Baleen Whales to near extinction, we lost the oceans biggest fertilizer pumps. And as i learned for an upcoming episode of the whole story, one pod can gobble up nutrients from the deep and poop them across hundreds of square miles of ocean surface. We got poo at that. Thats the goal supercharging the bottom of the food chain. Within 3 to 4 days in that area, you might have the whole area covered with fighter plankton. And then within five days of that, that whole area becomes full of fish. And since the biggest can wait 28 tons when they die, they take massive amounts of Carbon Godzilla to the ocean depths and could be doing millions of Dollars Worth of Carbon Removal for free. We would say wailing has to stop completely, but you can catch as much fish as you like, because were going to return. The oceans to billions of fish in this process. This idea has been tried before spraying iron filings, i guess on oceans its been rejected by governments over time. Whats new now . That gives you confidence that people will accept this . So i believe that the idea of only using iron was wrong. Volcanic ash contains all the nutrients that we need. A contains nitrates, phosphates , silicates and iron. And so we plan to literally use volcanic dust as our artificial whale poop. But to recover insufficient numbers. Whales will need time. And we are out of time. But sir david thinks we could buy precious years needed for ocean recovery. By making clouds. Big puffy white ones to reflect maximum sunlight away from the top of the world. So his team is designing hydrofoil that could sail Northern Seas Unmanned and powered only by the motion of the ocean. He hopes a fleet of these spraying a fine mist of seawater into the sky could create enough Marine Cloud Brightening to turn down the heat just enough to re freeze the arctic for three months a ye