Is the World Really Ending in 2012 as Some Predictors Claim?

[CosmologyTPA]

Additional info regarding galactic plane crossing and mass extinctions. I would consider Cambridge a pretty reliable source.

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=1804088

 

[vincentm]

Or, more generally,

... I can't fathom how this thread has remained unlocked for as long as it has.

Same here...

 

[D H]

Same here...

Count me as yet another PFer here who is completely confused regarding the longevity of this thread.

 

[JustFacts]

LaViolette's work has been confirmed in many disturbing ways since the early 1980s. Using the term "crackpottery" is an insult.

Some of the facts we do know with certainty aren't comforting.

Solar cycles have been getting larger and more intense and the solar peak appears to coincide with 2012. Could it be possible the Sun's magenetic field is increasingly being influenced as our solar system gets ever closer to the galactic plane? It promises to be the largest solar event ever recorded by humankind, barring, perhaps, the event 12,900 years ago that culled the human population and caused the extinction of the mammoths?

 

[Vanadium 50]

LaViolette's work has been confirmed in many disturbing ways since the early 1980s. Using the term "crackpottery" is an insult.

To whom, exactly? Other crackpots?

Solar cycles have been getting larger and more intense and the solar peak appears to coincide with 2012.

I'm sorry, but this isn't true. Whomever told you that made it up.

Solar Cycle 23 has been abnormally long, and it's not yet clear when Cycle 24 started. Based on what we know now, the best guess is around November 2008. That means the maximum would be somewhere around May 2014.

Getting something within +/- 2 years on an 11 year cycle is not my idea of a very accurate prediction. It's up there with "if you attack the Persians, a mighty empire will fall".

Could it be possible the Sun's magenetic field is increasingly being influenced as our solar system gets ever closer to the galactic plane?

Doesn't that presuppose that the sun is getting closer to the galactic plane? A statement for which there is no evidence.

It promises to be the largest solar event ever recorded by humankind, barring, perhaps, the event 12,900 years ago that culled the human population and caused the extinction of the mammoths?

I don't think "it" is doing the promising. Someone, not something is doing the promising. I hope that someone isn't the same someone who is making up sunspot data.

 

[Emreth]

it seems like 1960s had more sunspot activity...is that what spawned the hippies?