I believe that there is “something” to the 2012 craze. Too many ancient civilizations for too long have spoken and written about it. So what is this “something”? It could be MANY somethings as I have written about and I am sure will add to over the next three plus years. But what about the scientific REALITIES….possibilities?
A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. Damage to power grid systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation. The prediction is based in part on a major solar storm in 1859 that caused telegraph wires to short out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires.
In others words, this has happened before! 
It was perhaps the worst in the past 200 years, according to the new study, and with the advent of modern power grids and satellites, much more is at risk. “A contemporary repetition of the (1859) event would cause significantly more extensive (and possibly catastrophic) social and economic disruptions,” the researchers conclude.
When the sun is in the active phase of its 11-year cycle, it can unleash powerful magnetic storms that disable satellites, threaten astronaut safety, and even disrupt communication systems on Earth. For real! This has nothing to do with 2012!
The worst storms can knock out power grids by inducing currents that melt transformers.
Modern power grids are so interconnected that a big space storm (the type expected to occur about once a century) could cause a cascade of failures that would sweep across the United States, cutting power to 130 million people or more in this country alone, the new report concludes.
Such widespread power outages, though expected to be a rare possibility, would affect other vital systems. And guess what America is most vulnerable to? Yep, there goes the military supremacy, and who knows what would follow after that. Who wants to go there anyway.
That the next peak active phase of the suns cycle occurs in 2012 is just happenstance of course. NOT!
As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.
