Get Ready For 12 - 21 - 2012       

Every 11 years solar activity surges. Sunspots pepper the sun; they explode; massive clouds of gas known as "CMEs" hurtle through the solar system. Earth gets hit with    X-rays and protons and knots of magnetism. This is called solar maximum.

There's nothing mythical about "Solar Max." During the most recent episode in 2000 and 2001, sky watchers saw auroras as far south as Mexico and Florida; astronomers marveled at the huge sunspots; satellite operators and power companies struggled with outages. Now the sun is approaching the opposite extreme of its activity cycle, solar minimum, due in 2006. We can relax because, around solar minimum, the sun is quiet. Right? "That's the myth," says solar physicist of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. The truth is, solar activity never stops, "not even during solar minimum." To show that this is so, Solar physicist counted the number of X-class solar flares each month during the last three solar cycles, a period spanning 1970 to the present. X-flares are the most powerful kind of solar explosions; they're associated with bright auroras and intense radiation storms. "There was at least one X-flare during each of the last three solar minima," says Solar physicist .

 

Sunspots are devilishly unpredictable. They're made of magnetic fields poking up through the surface of the sun. Electrical currents deep inside our star drag these fields around, causing them to twist and tangle until they become unstable and explode. Solar flares and CMEs are by-products of the blast. The process is hard to forecast because the underlying currents are hidden from view. Sometimes sunspots explode, sometimes they don't. Weather forecasting on Earth was about this good ... 50 years ago. Researchers like Solar physicist study sunspots and their magnetic fields, hoping to improve the woeful situation. "We're making progress," They say. Good thing. Predicting solar activity is more important than ever. Not only do we depend increasingly on sun-sensitive technologies like cell phones and GPS, but also NASA plans to send people back to the Moon and then on to Mars. Astronauts will be "out there" during solar maximum, solar minimum and all times in between.  

The Mayan has a 5200 year cycle - which will reach the end at 2012              There are many scientific facts that will happen in 2012. Those already mentioned here about sun spots etc. and a very peculiar alignment of the planets and something about the constellations I can't remember in details now, the pole shift on the sun etc. That aside, I've discovered on my own another interesting fact. These cycles always signify something of great importance, major changes. I discovered that around 5200 years ago there was a great disaster on earth, a minor ice age and so on. Is that just coincidence, or did the Mayans actually know this and know that it will happen something major again in the end of the next cycle which is 2012? The scientists say that we are close to another change like that which happened 5200 years ago... Again it matches perfectly with the Mayan prophecies. So, we should take the knowledge of the Mayans quite serious in my opinion. They knew what they were doing and that’s a fact.
Also remember the great floods, past ice ages etc that fits well with the Mayans cycles. Look them up; they have various cycles of different importance, going through many thousands of years. Actually they have cycles going millions of year back. We just need to look at the current state of the world to see something is cooking (literally) - global warming, ice caps melting (which can cause floods etc), war, terror and instability, increase of natural disasters, magnetic poles of earth shifting and so on.

Evidence shows that around 5,200 years ago, solar output first dropped precipitously and then surged over a short period. It is this huge solar energy oscillation that Glaciologist believes may have triggered the climate change he sees in all those records. The impact of a climate change of that magnitude on a modern world would be tremendous, they say Seventy percent of the population lives in the world’s tropics and major climate changes would directly impact most of them The climate system is remarkably sensitive to natural variability, It’s likely that it is equally sensitive to effects brought on by human activity, changes like increased greenhouse gases, altered land-use policies and fossil-fuel dependence. Any prudent person would agree that we don’t yet understand the complexities with the climate system and since we don’t, we should be extremely cautious in how much we ‘tweak’ the system.