Twenty million metric tons of sulfur dioxide mixed with droplets of water, creating a kind of gaseous mirror, which reflected solar rays back into the sky.
Talks are complicated by the fact that -- unlike the ozone layer, in which it was clear solar rays that got through cause cancer -- climate change's health effects are generally indirect.
The spacecraft was similar to one that would carry humans, and scientists were interested in measuring galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles on the trip.
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When the sun is at its most active, which is when it is spotty, the solar wind is stronger and fewer cosmic rays penetrate.
Conversely, when solar activity is less intense, more cosmic rays get through.
As noted in the paper, the IPCC models also fail to incorporate climate modulating effects of solar changes such as cloud-forming influences of cosmic rays throughout periods of reduced sunspot activity.
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The rays can damage satellite electronics, and if current solar wind conditions persist, engineers would have to take this into account when deciding how to "harden" their spacecraft.
The all-carbon formula doesn't need to be thickly spread to do its work, and it simply lets visible light through -- it could layer on top of a traditional solar cell to catch many more of the sun's rays.
The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).
X-rays and gamma rays that Eros gives off in response to bombardment by solar and cosmic radiation.
DMI, Henrik Svensmark, reasoned that if the solar cycle were linked to the earth's temperature, cosmic rays could be part of the chain.
Top of the list is a solar shade, a gigantic umbrella in space that would shield the Earth from the sun's rays.
Other that it is all natural caused by changes in solar activity, the angle of the axis of the earth, something, anything, and now cosmic rays and the formation of Aitken nuclei.
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Sepp Fiedler, of Solar Lifestyle, the company behind the idea, told CNN that the bins were powered by the sun's rays.
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