Sunshade

But should Earth be faced with an abrupt climate crisis, a space sunshade is a technically feasible solution. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Oh, you may make fun," said Anna, snapping open the frothy thing she called a sunshade, "but you don't know how I lie awake nights, shuddering lest Lena grow up a near-sighted girl with no color and serious views." ❋ Henry Mills Alden (1877)

To some, such as Wigley, a sunshade could be a rational strategy to buy time for the long labor of converting to a carbon-neutral energy supply. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, showed that reflecting incoming solar radiation (through the use of a large "sunshade") would impact the hydrological cycle, leading to a drier global climate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Quite literally, the quaint and elliptical passage runs: 'The shameless one me "sunshade" only,' which the Commentary explains as 'My husband calls me not even an umbrella which he makes for his livelihood.' ❋ Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys (1909)

A suggested high-atmosphere "sunshade" of particles to battle global warming could reduce energy production from centralized solar power plants.

Attempts to deal with global warming by putting a particulate "sunshade" into the atmosphere would have adverse effects on solar power generation, according to a US federal boffin. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dan Murphy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) investigates a major inspiration for "sunshade" schemes, the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, meanwhile, warned that suggestions for a high-atmosphere "sunshade" of particles to battle global warming could reduce energy production from solar power plants. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sunshade might sound like a far-fetched project to pursue, but many of the most successful results in astrobiology began as pursuits that sounded impractical or extreme. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

Undeterred, Cash and others called a Hail Mary play—instead of sending up a telescope solely for the use of exoplanet searching with the sunshade, they would propose using the Webb Telescope, due to launch in 2014, as the second part of a resurrected occulter-telescope mission. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

She grew especially animated about the possibilities of launching an “occulter”—a flat, football-field-sized, petal-shaped sunshade that Seager and others hope will one day be sent into deep space and aligned with a similarly stationary but space-based telescope. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

One proposal, years in the making, involves sending into deep space a football-field-sized sunshade, that would then work in tandem with an orbiting telescope 35,000 to 50,000 miles away to create an “occulter.” ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

I saw Lloyd's face drop, but he answered sneeringly, "I can carry a sunshade, you know." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But things had changed by the mid-2000s, in part because a University of Colorado astrophysicist and space visionary, Webster Cash, had found a way to shrink the size of the sunshade from something miles long to something the area of a football field. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)