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Author here - if you have questions, remarks, insights, I'd love to hear about them!
Thank you for this post, I found it very insightful and a good overview of the current state
Seconded, such a great post, thanks for taking the time to research and write it!
Enjoyed reading this too. Added Termination Shock to my reading list.
Solar radiation management is naloxone for fossil addicts.

"Grinding up mountain[s] and chucking them in the ocean", accelerated weathering of olivine minerals, as it's usually called, would be the equivalent of a blood transfusion to detoxify the system a little. At this point the benefits probably outweigh the likely harms.

1. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/olivine-weathering