Pole shift & climate changes trigger doomsday predictions for 2012

Doomsday predictions have a tendency of becoming more frequent when times are tough, and many people are struggling to make ends meet right now. Prices for agricultural goods are rising and natural disasters are becoming more common primarily because of shifts in the climate. But why are so many choosing 2012 as the next year for cataclysm to strike, and what’s causing the climate changes?

One reason 2012 is a popular target for the next cataclysm derives from the Mayan calendar. 2012 marks the end of the “long count”, which is part of the “. . . Mayans’ concept of the dawn of time – around 3114 B.C. – and runs to its calculated termination at the Winter Solstice of 2012,” according to Lacity Beat.

That’s not the only strange thing about 2012 though, it’s also the year that the planets in our solar system align with the same plane of rotation as the Milky Way. Predictions vary wildly, and range from theories on potential shifts in the Earth’s magnetic field to a devastating flip in the planet’s molten core.

But a change in the Earth’s magnetic field isn’t the only thing that has scientists worried. Holes in the ozone layer and shifting poles are also on the list. The ozone layer acts as an insulator, keeping our warmer atmosphere contained underneath. If “Ozone Holes stay open longer for an additional week, and/or it takes longer to close the ozone holes, then it can be estimated that very large amounts of frigid cold currents from space will cause major winter climate changes and an extended winter season,” according to research by Manfred Zysk, M.E.

If holes in the ozone layer persist then it’s expected that large volumes of Earth’s atmosphere will vent out into space replaced by a frigidly cold downdraft. This image from the 2004 movie Day After Tomorrow comes to mind.

Beyond problems with the ozone layer, research done in 2005 by National Geographic indicates that the “. . . North Pole is moving into the direction of Siberia at a rather fast pace at 25 miles (40 kilometers) a year and the movement of the Pole definitely appear to be accelerating.”

Previous evidence of the shifting of the Earth’s Axis were finds of corals in Newfoundland, elephants in Alaska, fig trees in Northern Greenland, and luxurious forests, ferns, fossilized tree-stumps and coal in Antarctica, water lilies and fossilized palm leaves to 12 feet long in Spitzbergen, swamp cypress within 500 miles of the North Pole in the Miocene period, and mastodons in Siberia with fresh tropical grass in the mouth and stomach without any body tissue deterioration, which confirms that death and freezing was very sudden within a few hours.

A massive cut in our use of fossil fuels could have a very positive impact, but given the current political climate, sudden change is unlikely.

The video below contains some information on holes in our ozone layer and how the Earth’s magnetic field protects us.