Clockwork Climate

Clockwork Climate

85 mins | Documentary | Nov. 24, 2015

The Cold War's wildest dreams of climate control have made a spectacular comeback: from the USA to China, 'geo-engineers' promise to make climate change the way we want. And they have found powerful supporters among lobbyists and entrepreneurs. This film is an investigation into the world-wide boom in geo-engineering. How did a pseudo-science with a controversial past become a planet-wide research subject?

Clockwork Climate

85 mins | Documentary | Nov. 24, 2015

Clockwork Climate
The Cold War's wildest dreams of climate control have made a spectacular comeback: from the USA to China, 'geo-engineers' promise to make climate change the way we want. And they have found powerful supporters among lobbyists and entrepreneurs. This film is an investigation into the world-wide boom in geo-engineering. How did a pseudo-science with a controversial past become a planet-wide research subject?
Producers ARTE France Cinéma, Artline Films
Original title Les apprentis sorciers du climat
Directors Pierre Oscar Lévy
Writers Benjamin Landsberger, Pierre Oscar Lévy

Cast

Clive Hamilton

as / ethics researcher

Nathan Myhrvold

as / researcher

David Keith

as / physicist

Matthew Watson

as / volcanologist

Lee Lane

as political scientist

Stewart M. Patrick

as political scientist

Régis Briday

as philosopher

Kristine C. Harper

as science historian

Ken Caldeira

as climate researcher

Oliver Morton

as science reporter

Edward Teller

as nuclear physicist

Michael MacCraken

as climate researcher

Paul J. Crutzen

as atmosphere chemist

Lowell Wood

as astro physicist

Marianne Denicourt

as Narrator