Y Combinator issues a request for geo-engineering startups because climate change is real and we're all going to die

Y Combinator, the wildly successful San Francisco-based startup accelerator, is issuing a request for startups that will focus on different kinds of geo-engineering technologies in a bid to mitigate the effects of climate change. With the acknowledgement earlier this month from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that drastic measures are going to be required to reverse climate change and protect the globe from catastrophic climatological events by 2050, the startup accelerator is hoping that its call to action might spur some new thinking. This isn't anyone's plan A, but we seem to totally be failing at curbing emissions fast enough," wrote Y Combinator partner Sam Altman, in an email.