Geo-engineering proposals for mitigating climate change continue to proliferate without being tested. It is time to select and assess the most promising ideas according to efficacy, cost, all aspects of risk and, importantly, their rate of mitigation.
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This work benefited from discussions with many colleagues, and was partly funded by the New Zealand Foundation for Research and Technology programme on Coasts and Oceans.
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Boyd, P. Ranking geo-engineering schemes. Nature Geosci 1, 722–724 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo348
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