how far are we from climate science to climate engineering?

The ultimate goal of climate science in my opinion is to be able to find engineering means to turn climate change into favorable directions. have we found the best way? when would we be able to collectively engineer climate change?

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1. joel.savarino says:

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   Geoengineering is the last option
   that should stay on the table and should be used with the same principle that dictated the building of the nuclear arsenal: the last chance at the last minute.
   Only if our present climate should escapes its current stability, such manipulation
   should be used.

   Therefore geoengineering is a wrong solution for a real crisis. It is one bullet shoot.
   Who is going to push the button?
   The current uncertainties in our knowledge of the climate are simply too big to start to
   put all the financial and human efforts in that direction. Geoenginerring is the final decision and might actually be our last action.
2. 237_CHANIN says:

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   I am still very skeptical about our conviction that “to collectively engineer climate change” is not playing the apprentice sorcerer. Should we not before have a better undertsnading of all the climate uncertainties at this date : role of the permafrost melting, greenland behaviour, oceanic circulation changes etc…?