M3 Flare, Radiation Storm, CME to Impact Earth Monday, 22 June 2015

[thorfourwinds]

Big Solar Eruption, Proton Flux | S0 News Jun 18, 2015 - YouTube


@ 1:05   "... active region which must have erupted directly south of our connections,
leaving them open to be surged and energized...
the proton surge is coming in on those connection lines."





M3 Flare, Radiation Storm, CME to Impact Earth | S0 News June 19, 2015 - YouTube

Published on Jun 19, 2015

Full impact Monday, 22 June, 2015.

[space otter]

interesting


http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/june-solstice.html


June Solstice: Longest and Shortest Day of the Year



'Solstice' (Latin: 'solstitium') means 'sun-stopping', because the point where the sun appears to rise and set, stops and reverses direction after this day (Ill: Not to scale)


The June solstice is the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the Winter Solstice the Southern Hemisphere. The date varies between June 20 and June 22.
June Solstice in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. is on
Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 12:39 PM EDT (Change city) ?

June Solstice in Universal Coordinated Time is on
Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 16:39 UTC
?Local times for June Solstice 2015 worldwide
?Sunrise, sunset and day length around June Solstice 2015
?Day and Night map for June Solstice 2015
?Countdown to June Solstice 2015 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
?Equinoxes and solstices from 2000–2049

Zenith Away from the Equator

A solstice happens when the sun's zenith is at its furthest point from the equator. On the June solstice it reaches its northernmost point and the Earth's North Pole tilts directly towards the sun, at about 23.5 degrees. It's also known as the northern solstice because it occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere.

Meaning of Solstice

'Solstice' (Latin: 'solstitium') means 'sun-stopping'. The point on the horizon where the sun appears to rise and set, stops and reverses direction after this day. On the solstice, the sun does not rise precisely in the east, but rises to the north of east and sets to the north of west, meaning it's visible in the sky for a longer period of time.

Although the June solstice marks the first day of astronomical summer, it's more common to use meteorological definitions of seasons, making the solstice midsummer or midwinter.

[thorfourwinds]

Not sure just where to put this, but it seems to fit here.

Excellent information, Ms Otter, that's what teamwork is about.

[zorgon]

Looks like main stream media is hoping on the DOOM WAGON

Earth 'entering new extinction phase' - US study


Climate change and deforestation are among the reasons we may be facing an extinction event

The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties.

The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.

The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year. One of the new study's authors said: "We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event."

The last such event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were wiped out, in all likelihood by a large meteor hitting Earth.

"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said the lead author, Gerardo Ceballos.

Pollination by bees could disappear within three generations, the report warns

The scientists looked at historic rates of extinction for vertebrates - animals with backbones - by assessing fossil records.
They found that the current extinction rate was more than 100 times higher than in periods when Earth was not going through a mass extinction event.

Since 1900, the report says, more than 400 more vertebrates had disappeared.
Such a loss would normally be seen over a period of up to 10,000 years, the scientists say.

The study - published in the Science Advances journal - cites causes such as climate change, pollution and deforestation.

Given the knock-on effect of ecosystems being destroyed, the report says benefits such as pollination by bees could be lost within three human generations.

Extinction may be more gradual than when the dinosaurs died, the report says

Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich said: "There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead.

"We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on."

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says at least 50 animals move closer to extinction every year. Around 41% of all amphibians and 25% of mammals are threatened with extinction, it says.

Most at risk: the lemur

According to the IUCN, the lemur faces a real struggle to avoid extinction in the wild in the coming years.

The group says that 94% of all lemurs are under threat, with more than a fifth of all lemur species classed as "critically endangered".

As well as seeing their habitat in Madagascar destroyed by illegal logging, lemurs are also regularly hunted for their meat, the IUCN says.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33209548