I’m sure all of you have heard of the rumored apocalypse that will happen in 2012, I don’t really believe it, but from my interpretation, the Mayans predicted that the world would end on December 21st of 2012 from Sun Spots.
The Solar Cycle:
I don’t know how much you know about the sun cycle, but every 11 years the sun has a pattern of increased sun spots which send solar winds to Earth. Every eleven years there is a solar max, the last one was 2001, and so the Mayans could at least predict the next Solar Max that far into the future. Solar winds (again from my interpretation and what I've learned) send a quick increase in heat and have an EMP like effect on the exposed side of the Earth. The O-Zone acts as a shield to the winds, which we all know is constantly weakening. There was a movie called "The Core," kind of dumb movie in my opinion, but it showed a hypothesized effect of the Earth having no O-zone when a solar wind hit. (This was the part when San Francisco caught on fire) I don't know if any of you remember the last solar max, 2001, as being a particularly bad forest fire year, but living in the middle of the mountains of Montana, I definitely did.
The Balancing Force of Nature:
One major belief I have is that nature, basically anything not made by man, is in a constant evolution towards balance. This is a pretty easy concept to grasp, but humans are the complete opposite of nature, we have built cities, civilizations, and we can basically do what ever we want with the Earth. A good example of this is forests. In nature, once a forest gets too wild, it burns, and then new foliage grows from the ashes. Now as man has become more powerful, we can now stop these forest fires, and we do so because we depend on them for many aspects of our lives. So naturally, the forests now grow older and wilder than they should, and they definitely contain more fuel than natural. Because we are getting so skilled at preventing nature from running its course, Natural Evolution has brought the pine beetle into power. Hopefully you have heard of the epidemic that is sweeping the Rocky Mountains, but a certain species of pine beetle is rapidly wiping out mass amounts of lodge pole pines. I believe the outbreak started in Colorado, and is spreading through the thick forests all the way to Canada, killing off about half the trees everywhere in between. Once a tree is dead it takes a while to fall, in the mean time it stands tall with dead needles, like a match ready to spread to the tops of the surrounding trees. I guess what I’m trying to say is that because we stopped the forests from restarting and continuing their natural cycle, evolution has now created an inevitable situation that will create an unnaturally large, uncontrollable fire.
Conclusion:
Let me restate that 2001, the last solar max was one of the worst recorded forest fire years ever, and in the last 8 years, the Earth has become hotter, the O-zone has became weaker, and the pine beetle has wiped out about half the trees, leaving perfect situation for a massive, catastrophic wild fire. There are 3 years until the next solar max, when that happens, this nation wide forest fire will be inevitable.
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but in my own environment I can see the inevitable, it’s not quite the apocalypse, but things will definitely never be the same.
Please post your thoughts, and if any of my information is incorrect, please tell me.
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