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Current climate engineering proposals do not come close to addressing the complex and contested nature of conceivable 'climate emergencies' resulting from unabated greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Acknowledgements

The ground for this Commentary was laid during a session on 'Climate emergency: Science, framing, and politics', which was organized by J.S., F.B. and J.B.H. as part of the Climate Engineering Conference 2014 in Berlin (http://www.ce-conference.org). The authors thank all the speakers for their presentations and discussion. T.M.L. and A.L. were supported by the European Union Seventh Framework programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement no. 603864 (HELIX). T.M.L. is further supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

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  1. Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo, Pb. 1129 Blindern, Oslo, 0318, Norway
    Jana Sillmann
  2. Earth System Science, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Laver Building (Level 7), North Parks Road, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
    Timothy M. Lenton
  3. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegraphenberg A3, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
    Anders Levermann
  4. Institute for Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam University, Campus Golm, Haus 28, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24/25, Potsdam-Golm, 14476, Germany
    Anders Levermann
  5. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Kiel University, Leibnizstrasse 6, Kiel, 24118, Germany
    Konrad Ott
  6. Department of Geography, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
    Mike Hulme
  7. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Berliner Strasse 130, Potsdam, 14467, Germany
    François Benduhn
  8. Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Box 117, Cambridge, 02138, Massachusetts, USA
    Joshua B. Horton

Authors

  1. Jana Sillmann
  2. Timothy M. Lenton
  3. Anders Levermann
  4. Konrad Ott
  5. Mike Hulme
  6. François Benduhn
  7. Joshua B. Horton

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J.S. initiated and structured this Commentary. All authors contributed to the content and writing.

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Correspondence toJana Sillmann.

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Sillmann, J., Lenton, T., Levermann, A. et al. Climate emergencies do not justify engineering the climate.Nature Clim Change 5, 290–292 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2539

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