Is the world really going to end December 21 2012?
The world will go through some dramatic changes in 2012. I work for the National Center for Atmospheric Research here in Boulder. The sun is 93,000,000 million miles away from us and there are these things called Solar Flares and Solar Storms that flare up and shoot out from Solar Spots. In 2012, the sun will be at its “solar maximum”, it is the period when the sun’s magnetic field lines are the most distorted due to the magnetic field in the solar equator rotating at a slightly faster pace than at the solar poles. The last ‘solar minimum’ was in 2001 and it takes about 11 years to go from minimum to maximum. The one in 2012 is predicted to be one of the worst one’s we’ve ever had in history. So when the solar flares hit and break through the magnetic shield around Earth, the same type of thing that causes the Aurora Borealis but a thousand times greater, will short out many circuits on Earth, also igniting wild fires. We’ll lose cell phones and TV signals. And the energy grid across t
