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Climate crunch: Great white hope

Geoengineering schemes, such as brightening clouds, are being talked about ever more widely. In the third of three features, Oliver Morton looks at how likely they are to work.

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Morton, O. Climate crunch: Great white hope. Nature 458, 1097–1100 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4581097a

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