But, many scientists fear that by the time new technology is in place, global warming will have accelerated beyond control.
So far, wheat rust has not caused the disaster that scientists fear.
But scientists fear air travellers could be more at risk because of the lack of opportunity to move about on a plane.
Scientists fear that if they are allowed to travel upstream, they could spawn, multiply and threaten the larger ecosystem of the Lake Michigan.
The StarLink corn, however, contains a protein that human beings may not be able to digest and that some scientists fear may cause allergic reactions.
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Scientists fear they will out-compete prized sport and commercial species.
But even if the ice melts as fast as shippers hope (and scientists fear), navigation is likely to demand strengthened hulls, higher insurance and extra training for crews, all adding to the costs.
Scientists fear that the population of phytoplankton in the world's oceans is being affected by rising sea temperatures, with a paper published in the journal Nature in 2010 controversially suggesting that it had declined by as much as 40% since the 1950s due to climate change.
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It has rampaged eastwards into northern Alberta for the first time. (It has also made localised attacks on forests in all 11 western American states.) Scientists now fear the voracious beetle is about to invade the jack pines of the boreal forest, which could see the plague sweep across northern Canada to the Atlantic coast.
Scientists at Daresbury fear closure of their existing synchrotron, which they say will leave the North-West with fewer than 300 government-funded research jobs while the South-East has more than 8, 500.
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This question was left unresolved, with the two journalists present fearing the possibility of a cynical public reaction to the Met Office being considered judge and jury and the scientists considering this fear rather silly.
Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.
Scientists also feared it could damage kidneys, a fear that would prove unfounded.
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