Sunstorm
by Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter · first published 2005
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Humanity must try to learn to work together while threatened by extinction from a deadly sunstorm; meanwhile the mysterious Firstborn are observing in silence.
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Without going into too many details, something like this is used in the book Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstorm_(novel)
on “Russian crowdfunded reflector satellite aims to be “brightest star in the sky”” ↗Sunstorm [1] by Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, obliquely touches on this though with added aliens and a larger threat from the sun. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35815.Sunstorm
on “Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point” ↗> at some point closer to the sun we could perhaps pull this angular "hack" to shade Earth using a smaller object? A. C. Clarke and S. Baxter A Time Odyssey series 2nd book, "Sunstorm" focuses on destructive coronal mass ejection as main plot. One of the mankind solutions is a megaproject of shield modelled on Fresnel lens that is constructed on the Moon from regolith and shot up from…
on “Would nuclear winter cancel out global warming?” ↗Once again I'll mention "A Time Odyssey" series by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter and to be exact, the second book in the series Sunstorm. In which Earth is preparing to mitigate - as much is possible, a massive solar eruption with megascale engineering projects. The major outer space idea is to reflect this eruption with a giant shield…
on “White House opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming” ↗