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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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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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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