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. i m 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, cnn s chief climate correspondent, bill weir, has found some reasons to hope some unique ways innovators are trying to capture contain 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
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. we ll explain his innovations in a minute. but in case you want to check the math of a fisherman scientist let s hop across the pond. cambridge university. if we were to reduce emissions to zero tomorrow, not necessary to zero. we re still cooked. david king went from teaching chemistry at cambridge to a post as the uk s top science advisor and later the country s lead climate negotiator. but after a decade he realized that geopolitics and oil lobbyists or eating up too much precious time. my own
rounding up and sinking that massive blob of floating seaweed known as sargasso, now headed towards florida. and he s not alone. a british startup called c fields is among those who hope to bail enough sargasso to sink a gigatons of carbon a year. but no one knows for sure what shoveling giga tons of limestone at the top and dead kelp at the bottom will do to marine life. so like any great quest, marty must venture to new lands to begin experimentation. an island of fire and ice with a tiny population of vikings, who kill more carbon godzilla per capita than any other nation on earth. welcome to iceland. it s kind of amazing to consider that just a few generations ago this was a really miserable place, a place
we gotta. we gotta run a lot faster. if we want to feel that this is the kind of problem that should, in theory have been fixed by governments. that is not happened anywhere near the scale or speed that we needed. so strike got together with the parent companies of google and facebook, shopify and mckinsey, and together they promised to buy almost a billion dollars in carbon removal from companies like charm over the next seven years. so that is the bio oil that s right right now. stripe pace charm. 600 bucks for every ton of godzilla. they locked back underground. and both companies hope that price comes down as he scales up, and they re also rooting for peter s competitors like ab carbon set up next door to tesla s very first garage. the input to the system is saltwater formed by alumni of google s moonshot team. they hope their breakthrough and electro chemistry will turn gigatons of godzilla into bicarbonate for
direct air capture plant in the world today. yes, yes, it is. there are large fans who draw the air through the filter material. the 02 is heated, treated and piped to the next door neighbor and icelandic company called carb fix, where they turned godzilla back into rock. a mile and a half underground. this process is a natural process. but all we re doing here is we re doing it at depth and with speeding it up. it s kind of cool to hold the villain here. yeah, for sure. there s gotta be an icelandic word for your feelings right now. gecko. that means what excited crazy. exciting exciting . okay on the day of our visit, the ceo of carb fix learned that the european union will grant them more than ■7100 million to convert this old aluminum smelting ports into a massive godzilla graveyard to bury gigatons of carbon from all over europe. the idea is to drill our