2012 solar storms -- we're gonna DIE!

I have reader's autism -- more like a trace of Asperger's, but what tax lawyer doesn't have a trace of it? -- in that I often can't tell whether the writer is being serious or joking. So in case you weren't joking, and to amplify on a point made by Scott Walker above, the current solar cycle is off to a very, very weak start. NASA has recently revised down its estimate of how active this cycle will be: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/08/the-new-nasa-solar-goalpost-cycle-24-maybe-not-so-big/

What does this mean? I think there's a lower likelihood of a catastrophic solar storm. Also, very significantly, a lower activity level for solar cycle 24 could provide very indicative data on climate change. If you buy the CO2 analysis, AGW would go full speed ahead (which is already not the case), with little impact from what the sun is or isn't doing. More likely, we will have a period of cooling. Even the AGW types realize this, which is why the preferred term is now "climate change," instead of "global warming." (Of course, the climate is almost always changing, so the notion of "climate change" as something new and scary represents an effort to play on the public's ignorance and gullibility.) Stay tuned. I have a hunch the sun is fixin' to pwn Al Gore in a big way.

I'm still sticking to "No man will know that day and hour." A lot of people thought January 1, 2000 would bring Armageddon.

I used to read a lot of Nostradamus and "The Bible Code." Made me really paranoid, too. Now I know that no one knows the future but God, so I'm just leaving it in His hands.

yeah but the scientist and other people who are pros in all that space shit are saying something BIG is gonna happen and man im scared i dont w