| The Mayans during their classical period between the | | | | for 21 December 2012. |
| 250 AD and 900 AD rose to great heights of | | | | Ever since the 2006 release of Al Gore's |
| civilization. They were skilled farmers and hunters | | | | documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" we have all |
| along with great mathematicians, storytellers, | | | | not only believed in global warming but like the good |
| astronomers, artists, linguists and architects. | | | | citizens of the world that we are all trying out best |
| Most of these skills are still far better progressed | | | | to save the planet. |
| compared to our own especially their calendar | | | | We do every little thing we are told to save energy |
| systems, hieroglyphic writing and their astronomical | | | | so that the rapid heating up of our planet due to |
| knowledge. | | | | green house gasses does not cause any further |
| The Mayans had developed three calendar systems. | | | | devastation that it already has. |
| The two more commonly used were cyclic calendars | | | | The temperature of Earth has increased by 1 percent |
| like our own Georgian calendar the third however | | | | in the last century alone and if we are told that if we |
| was a continuous (linear) calendar that started from a | | | | continue on polluting the way we are now the earth |
| mythical date of creation of the world in 1 Baktun | | | | will melt faster and the weather patterns will only get |
| and ends on the 13 Baktun. | | | | worse. |
| This third calendar called the Mayan Long Count | | | | There are however some new information that |
| Calendar is the point of much debate among the | | | | every one "conveniently" seems to be either oblivious |
| classic and contemporary Mayan experts. Some | | | | to or omitting. Here are some of our astounding |
| suggest this is just a point of regeneration and | | | | finding that might make even the most staunch |
| others claim it is the sign of an apocalypse. | | | | Global warming supporters to raise an eye brow. |
| There are a number of experts both classic and | | | | It has been observed by Solar experts, scientists and |
| contemporary that fall on each side of the argument. | | | | astronomers that the Sun's activity in the last 60 |
| The problem is the language barrier, as the | | | | years has been the strongest in recorded history. |
| hieroglyphic writing or at least our knowledge of it | | | | Any global warming literate will tell you that the 1 |
| lends a mythological quality to the writing itself | | | | degree rise in Earth's temperature has happened in |
| opening it up to many interpretations and | | | | the last 50 years.o Solar activity has its cycles too |
| contradictions. | | | | and it peaks usually peaks every 20 years and keeps |
| The Mayan Long Count Calendar however with its | | | | that high energy or activity up for 3 to 4 years. Sun |
| interlocking Solar and Lunar cycles is not disputed as | | | | was supposed to have its last peak in 2000 yet it is |
| it afforded the Mayans and unusual sight into the | | | | still peaking and as we end 2009 it is showing no |
| astronomical future of our Solar System. | | | | signs of diminishing.o The head of space research at |
| The ideas that they were able to not only predict | | | | St. Petersburg's Pullover Astronomical Observatory |
| the Winter Solstice of 2012 with uncanny ability but | | | | has reported a trend of ebbs and flows of |
| the equinox that will see the alignment of Earth with | | | | temperatures in both Earth and Mars the same as |
| the black hole is astonishing to say the least. | | | | the fluctuations in Sun's activity.o Mars Carbon Ice |
| We have only in the recent years discovered there is | | | | caps as NASA reports have now been rapidly melting |
| a black hole. If we read through the Mayan accounts | | | | for at least three summers, just like our own.o |
| of what will happen during this end of the world age, | | | | Jupiter and Saturn are showing increased activity on |
| we find that they reference a demon of the | | | | their surfaces due to the increased energy released |
| underworld unleashed upon Earth by a serpent | | | | towards them by the Sun. Drastic changes in Jupiter's |
| (shaped like our galaxy) that causes destruction | | | | climatic makeup and an increase in storms has been |
| through water and floods. | | | | recorded.o Neptune's biggest moon Triton has also |
| The Mayans refer to this date of December 2012 as | | | | had a rapid increase in its core temperature in the |
| the days of the withered fruit and the tempest. | | | | last decade.o Again these are just some very curious |
| With all the Mayan prophecies that have come true, | | | | facts about the existence of a rapidly approaching |
| their astronomical knowledge that eludes us to date | | | | Planetary body (Planet X) towards the Sun or just |
| along with the deteriorating state of our societies and | | | | out pollution causing the whole Solar System to |
| the rising water levels it is not wrong to think that | | | | warm up. You decide. |
| there is some truth to the Mayan prophecy of doom | | | | |