December 21 2012 End date of the Mayan Long Count Calendar may be off by at least 60 days

According to an online Discovery News article by Ian MacNeill, the Mayan end of the world 2012 date might be off by at least 60 days.

The problem has to do with correlating dates in the Mayan Long Count calendar with dates in our present Gregorian calendar. Scholars use a constant called the GMT constant, which refers to the initials of the three men who determined this constant:  Joseph Goodman, Juan Martinez-Hernandez and J. Eric S. Thompson.

Carol Chapman, author of the End of the World 2012 EBook

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End of the World 2012 EBook

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The End of the World 2012 EBook, is the memoir of author and filmmaker Carol Chapman to discover the truth about the 2012 Mayan prophecies.

Concerned with rampant end of the world fears fanned by misleading reports, Chapman uncovers the truth surrounding this mysterious 2012 date. She examines expert sources to determine if the Mayan calendar does actually end on December 21, 2012 and even includes recent archeological discoveries released in April and June of 2012.

Many people believe the ancient Mayans died away

The Maya live in the Yucatan Peninsula, which is in southern Mexico, and also includes parts of northern Central America.

With all of the buzz about the Mayan Prophecies for December 21, 2012, some people believe that the Maya are a dead race–that there are no Maya alive today. I guess these people believe this since the 2012 Mayan prophecy was made by the ancient Maya, there must not be any modern Maya. Not so.

There’s so much talk about the Maya, but there aren’t many people who know who they are. The Maya are an indigenous group. They live in Central America in Mexico. As of the year 2000, there were seven million of them. They are the largest indigenous group in the Americas. According to some sources, they may be the largest indigenous group in the world.

They suffered under the Spanish who tried to annihilate them in the “Caste War.” It started in 1847 and lasted for 54 years ending on May 5th, 1901. The Spanish slaughtered the Maya, trying to totally get rid of them.

But the Maya people themselves are very determined and steadfast and are producing lots of babies. I have that on good authority that they are replenishing their numbers.

Excerpted from the End of the World 2012 EBook and the End of the World 2012 Book.

Carol Chapman, director/producer of the  End of the World 2012 Movie

End of the World 2012 Movie super discounted on Amazon this weekend

Wow! The End of the World 2012 Movie is really discounted on Amazon, by $5.00. It’s gone from $17.99 to only $14.99.

Ice Ages, Earth’s varying temperature and CO2 levels

Graph of CO2 (Green graph), temperature (Blue graph), and dust concentration (Red graph) measured from the Vostok, Antarctica ice core as reported by Petit et al., 1999.

Take a look at the “Earth’s rise and fall of temperature and CO2” graph on the right. It shows temperature variations in degrees Celsius of the earth from the present to over 400,000 years ago.

While gathering data for the End of the World 2012 Movie, Book, and EBook, I researched previous end of the world scenarios, such as the Ice Ages.

What impresses me with this graph is that, even though there is concern were are in a Global Warming phase, the earth has actually been warmer than it is today.

In addition, it has been much, much colder than it is today.

There is a temperature variation from warmest to coolest of about 12 degrees Celsius. That’s a lot.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be concerned with the environment. I’m only wondering how much our present temperature changes are part of the normal cycle of changes on earth.

The graphs look as if extreme climate change are inevitable, of course, over hundreds of thousands of years.

My conclusion is to be happy for each day as it comes.

Higher dust levels are believed to be caused by cold, dry periods. The Earth’s orbital eccentricity, tilt, and precession vary in a pattern over thousands of years. The IPCC notes that Milankovitch cycles drove the ice age cycles; CO₂ followed temperature change “with a lag of some hundreds of years” (visible on a graph more zoomed in than this); and that as a feedback amplified temperature change. Among other factors, CO₂ is more soluble in colder than in warmer waters.

Ice Age

Are the Magnetic Poles about to shift?

I’ve been looking at information on the possibility of a shift in the magnetic poles. Some of the information appears in the End of the World 2012 Movie, Book, and EBook.

An online Reuters article says:

The only thing stopping Earth having a lifeless environment like Mars is the magnetic field that shields us from deadly solar radiation and helps some animals migrate, and it may be a lot more fragile and febrile than one might think.

Scientists say earth’s magnetic field is weakening and could all but disappear in as little as 500 years as a precursor to flipping upside down.

Lost in migration: Earth’s magnetic field overdue a flip

The rest of the article gets pretty scary, because it says that scientific studies have shown that the earth’s magnetic field reverses itself approximately every 250,000 years. BUT, it’s been over 800,000 since the last shift in the magnetic poles. Eek! We’re 550,000 years overdue for a flip in the magnetic poles!

Evidently, a shift in the magnetic field can make a planet vulnerable to losing its atmosphere. Scientists believe that Mars lost its atmosphere billions of years ago when the red planet’s magnetic field reversed and the solar wind blew the atmosphere off of Mars. Without an atmosphere, any life that may have been on Mars perished.

During the time the magnetic field is reversing, a planet’s atmosphere is not as tightly held to the planet and could be blown away by the solar wind.

As earth’s magnetic poles become more unstable–magnetic north has moved over 1500 kilometers in the last century–the magnetic field around the earth is weakening.

The article gets really scary when it says that at the rate things are going, earth’s magnetic field could become so weak as to be non-existent in 500 years and the magnetic poles could flip. At that time, would the solar wind blow away our atmosphere leading to the demise of dear old planet Earth?

Yes, I know 500 years isn’t in our lifetime. However, in earth time, it is a very short time away.

Yellowstone Hotspot Diagram

“At Yellowstone and some other volcanoes, some scientists theorize that the earth’s crust fractures and cracks in a concentric or ring-fracture pattern. At some point these cracks reach the magma “reservoir,” release the pressure, and the volcano explodes. The huge amount of material released causes the volcano to collapse into a huge crater—a caldera.” From nps.gov 4 October 2009, author Wikipedian Kbh3rd I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide, retrieved from Wikipedia Commons

The story of the Yellowstone mega volcano brings to mind end of the world scenarios.

Will Yellowstone have a major eruption again in our lifetimes? If so, it could lead to an end of the world scenario.

In making the End of the World 2012 Movie and writing the End of the World 2012 EBook and Book, I contemplate previous end of the world scenarios and wonder if there will be future ones.

In the diagram of the Yellowstone Caldera on the right, it looks as if the Geysers of Yellowstone are inside the huge Yellowstone Caldera. If so, this caldera is huge. Is that how it looks to you?

The Yellowstone Caldera is the volcanic caldera located in Yellowstone National Park in the United States, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano. The caldera is located in the northwest corner of Wyoming, in which the vast majority of the park is contained. The major features of the caldera measure about 34 by 45 miles (55 by 72 km).^[3]

Yellowstone Caldera

Chicxulub, Yucatan, appears in the End of the World 2012 Movie, Kindle, and Book

This shaded relief image of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula show a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretatious-Tertiary Extinction, the event 65 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then on Earth.This image was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Lab of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA03379. Image retrieved from Wikipedia Commons.

Chicxulub, presently a sleepy fishing village in Yucatan, makes an appearance in the End of the World 2012 Movie, Kindle EBook, and book. It is the site where, 65 million years ago, a  six-mile-wide meteor hit the earth leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Chixculub appears in the End of the World 2012 series it that part of the movie/book in which we examine if the world can really end. What do you think? Can the world really end?

The crater is more than 180 km (110 mi) in diameter, making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures on Earth; the impacting bolide that formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter.

Chicxulub crater

Mayan glyphs do NOT have a Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, © Hans Hillewaert / CC-BY-SA-3.0 21 November 2007 licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, retrieved from Wikipedia Commons.

We could have benefited from a Rosetta Stone in deciphering the Mayan glyphs. Even today, after decades of deciphering the ancient glyphs, Maya scholars are still learning how to understand many of the texts. In my humble opinion, the Mayan glyphs are unlike any other writing on earth. No wonder they are so difficult to decipher.

If they had been deciphered earlier, perhaps much of the controversy over the Mayan prophecies for December 21, 2012 would have been clarified sooner.

Unfortunately, the Mayan glyphs do not have a Rosetta Stone as do the Egyptian hieroglyphics. It seemed as if the Egyptian hieroglyphics would never be deciphered until a chance discover by a French soldier in 1799 produced the Rosetta stone. It took 20 years after finding the Rosetta Stone to decipher the hieroglyphics.  Without it, Egyptian hieroglyphics may never have been deciphered.

The Rosetta Stone was discovered by a French soldier in 1799 at a time when it seemed as if the Egyptian hieroglyphics would undecipherable. Fortunately, the Rosetta Stone contained the same decree issued on behalf of King Ptolemy V in 196 BC in three languages: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. It provided the key to finally deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Originally displayed within a temple, the stele was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period and eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It was rediscovered there in 1799 by a soldier,Pierre-François Bouchard, of the French expedition to Egypt.

Rosetta Stone

Another new video page on this blog, this one for the End of the World 2012 Movie

End of the World 2012 Movie

I’m happy, because I just created a second page on this blog. This one is also under my new section, “Carol Chapman’s video.” This video is called the End of the World 2012 Movie.

For a full description of the End of the World 2012 Movie, including Bonus Features and About the Actor, Writer, and Director, please click here.

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