Did High Temperatures in February 2017 Break Records?

Copyright 2007 Carol Chapman

Here in Virginia, USA, close to Williamsburg, we had three days in the month of February with temperatures of 81F / 27C. That is hot for this time of year! Those are Florida temperatures, not Virginia. Those are nice-days-in-summer temperatures for us! So, I ask myself, “What’s going on here? Did high temperatures in February 2017 break records? Is this climate change or what?”

Gravity affected by Climate Change

Here’s a great video describing differences in locational gravity based on the earth’s features such as mountains and the resultant changes in gravity due to changes in features such as the shrinking of ice in Antarctica.

Forget 2012! There’s a slight chance that Asteroid Apophis may actually collide with earth in 2029!

In the midst of conjecture and fantasy about the Mayan 2012 end of the world prophecy, real scientific observation has detected an asteroid that is moving toward earth and will pass closer to earth than satellites in orbit  in 2029 and 2036.

That’s pretty darn close!

And, it makes me just a wee bit nervous that since the asteroid has only a diameter of 690-1080 feet (210-330 meters) and is 17 years away from its close encounter with earth, there’s a chance that as it gets closer, the original calculations might need to be revised and that it might actually collide with our beloved blue planet!

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Here’s an excerpt from a long scientific-sounding post on NASA’s Near Earth Object Program website:

Researchers at NASA/JPL, Caltech, and Arecibo Observatory have released the results of radar observations of the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis, along with an in-depth analysis of its motion. The research will affect how and when scientists measure, predict, or consider modifying the asteroid’s motion. The paper has been accepted for publication in the science journal “Icarus” and was presented at the AAS/DPS conference in Orlando, Florida in October of 2007. The Apophis study was led by Jon Giorgini, a senior analyst in JPL’s Solar System Dynamics group and member of the radar team that observed Apophis.

The analysis of Apophis previews situations likely to be encountered with NEAs yet to be discovered: a close approach that is not dangerous (like Apophis in 2029) nonetheless close enough to obscure the proximity and the danger of a later approach (like Apophis in 2036) by amplifying trajectory prediction uncertainties caused by difficult-to-observe physical characteristics interacting with solar radiation as well as other factors.

Predicting Apophis’ Earth Encounters in 2029 and 2036

2012 end of the world movie coming along …

I am excited, because I’m really close to getting the first edit of my 2012 end of the world movie complete. I just added the Hunbatz Men interview about Stele One and the December 21, 2012 date in Coba, Mexico.

Dramatic lava flows and the demise of Lemuria bring to mind 2012 and the end of the world

Yesterday’s post with that amazingly dramatic photograph of lava spewing out of the side of a cliff into the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii brings to mind not only the sinking of Lemuria Mu, but also the recent speculation about the 2012 prophecies and the end of the world. Could the world end on December 21, 2012 from dramatic volcanic activity?

Atlantis disappearance not the usual trend!

Yesterday I wrote to say that the grid-pattern, thought by some to be the lost city of Atlantis,  found on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa by Google Maps has disappeared. How unusual. Usually, Atlantis keeps popping up in many diverse places. A disappearance is definitely out of the ordinary! What can it mean? Is this the first 2012 earth upheaval?

Super-volcanoes could bring about a 2012 doomsday scenario

As we enter 2012, and wonder about the Mayan prophecies: Are they about the end of the world, a new beginning, or what? Here’s some information about super-volcanoes:

Each of the world’s roughly one dozen super-volcanoes is capable of spewing out thousands of times more magma and ash than any eruption ever recorded in human history.

Can scientists predict volcanic eruptions? Mythical Atlantis may hold the answer.

2012 and Beyond Movie interview

Today I’m working on the 2012 and Beyond Movie. When I was in Yucatan in December 2011, I met with Kristine Ellingson, author of Tales from the Yucatan Jungle: Life in a Mayan Village. She’s an American who is married to a Mayan man and has been living in a Mayan village with him for 20 years. During my visit in Yucatan, I interviewed her for the movie asking her what the Maya in her village think about 2012–are they afraid of the end of the world? Do they even know about it?

Kristine’s intriguing memoir is available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle form, and on BarnesandNoble.com or by order from Barnes and Noble bookstores.

A 2012 video on the Mayan idea of how evil entered the world

I haven’t seen this 2012 video, but you might want to take a look at it. It is part of the March 14, 2008 post at the 2012 Eye of the Shaman website.

I’ve copied a excerpt from description of the video below. It looks interesting.

After the last Sun Age, Hunab Ka, Mayan Sun God banished the Death Lords to Xibalba. When the waters receded they plotted their return. ~ How Evil Entered Our World

CBCNews article on the ancient Maya and 2012 exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto

Here’s an excerpt from a great article called, “Did the Maya predict the world would end in 2012? Archeologists say Maya made no such prophecy.” The article is from CBCNews. here:

Click on the link above and you’ll be taken to the original article, which is full of information on the ancient Maya and 2012. The article is announcing a Royal Ontario Museum exhibit on the topic.

Here’s the quote:

“In a correlation of the Maya’s long-count calendar to our Western one, the end of this current baktun, the 13th, happens on Dec. 21, 2012 (or Dec. 23. See sidebar).

“The long-count calendar counts the time since creation, which the Maya date to what we would call a day in August 3114 BC.

“Dec. 21 vs. Dec. 23
Dec, 21, 2012 seems to be the most favoured date for when the 13th baktun on the Maya long-count calendar ends. But some sources, including the Royal Ontario Museum, go with Dec. 23.

“The two dates stem from two variations of the most used correlation of our calendar with the Maya’s.

“The ROM’s Justin Jennings said it went with Dec. 23 because, “there’s no evidence that the long count is linked to astronomical cycles” and the curators felt that Dec. 21 feeds into “2012 galactic alignment stuff, which just doesn’t hold water from an astronomy point of view and it does not work for classic Maya literature.”

“Maya expert David Stuart doesn’t care which date people choose but told CBC News that it is a complete coincidence that Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice. “Other baktun endings don’t really fall on important astronomical dates,” he noted.

“Obviously, baktuns have come and gone. This year just happens to be the one when the 13th baktun ends. The 12th baktun ended on Sept. 18, 1618, which was when Europe’s very destructive Thirty Years’ War was just getting started.

“Stuart writes that, “any such statements about the Maya predicting the world’s demise or alternatively, some ‘transformation of consciousness’ in 2012 is, to put it as simply and directly as possible, wrong.”

Did the Maya predict the world would end in 2012? Archeologists say Maya made no such prophecy

In this blog, I’ve written about David Stuart before. He is one of my heroes, because, by a wonderful set of circumstances, his parents were both archeologists and he spend part of his childhood with them at the Mayan ruin of Coba, which is within a half day’s drive from Cancun–I’ve been there twice, and I’ve included it my my travelogue, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza.

From what I’ve read and seen about David Stuart, he had a Mayan nanny and so became prolific in Mayan. I remember seeing a Public Broadcasting Station special on deciphering the Mayan glyphs, in which David, at an early age–I think 16–was brilliantly decoding glyphs, helped by his fluency in present-day Mayan.