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Geo-Engineering to Confine Climate Change: Is it at all Feasible?

  • Lennart Bengtsson1 

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Bengtsson, L. Geo-Engineering to Confine Climate Change: Is it at all Feasible?. Climatic Change 77, 229–234 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9133-3

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