5 WAYS TO SAVE THE WORLD

If global warming continues to escalate at the current rate, many fear the effects could be catastrophic. Five Ways to Save the World features five of the world's top scientists and the revolutionary scientific inventions they believe could stop global warming and prevent worldwide disaster. In Five Ways to Save the World, computer-generated imagery allows each scientist to fully describe his radical approach to a solution.

Professor Roger Angel from Arizona, designer of the world's largest telescope, proposes putting a giant glass sunshade in space to deflect a small portion of the sun's rays back into space. Dutch Professor Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize for chemistry after discovering the causes of the hole in the ozone layer. His plan is to fire hundreds of rockets loaded with tons of sulphur into the stratosphere creating a vast, but very thin sunscreen of sulphur around the earth. British atmospheric physicist Professor John Latham and engineer Stephen Salter have designed a fleet of remote-controlled yachts that will pump fine particles of sea water into clouds, increasing the thickness of the clouds and reflecting the suns rays.

The remaining geniuses want to tackle the problem of excess carbon dioxide it the air. Sydney engineer Professor Ian Jones proposes to feed plankton with gallons of fertilizer, causing the plankton to grow and absorb carbon dioxide from the air. And New York-based Professor Klaus Lackner has designed a carbon dioxide capturing machine and plans to locate them across the globe. The machine would suck in carbon dioxide and turn it into a powder, burying it deep under the ocean in disused oil and gas fields.

Ironically, most of the scientists are reluctant advocates of these ideas, and all believe global citizens should cut down on the use of fossil fuels to heat homes and drive cars. But is time running out for the planet? Viewers will find out in Five Ways to Save the World.