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To meet the Paris climate goals, do we need to engineer the climate?

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imageWill the world resort to 'solar radiation management' to slow the Earth's heating? Mark Robinson/flickr, CC BY-NC

The climate talks that convened in Paris at the end of 2015 produced a historic agreement, giving negotiators and climate activists good reason to celebrate. Now the task is to ensure that the ambition shown in Paris is matched by...

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