Nice chart of "freezes" on Wiki, and it shows a ~200 year cycle. I get
the shivers just thinking about the cosmic repercussions....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon14_with_activity_labels.svg
Then there is the 2,000-2,300 year Hallsatt cycle.
These are subsets of the Schwabe cycle, the eleven-year cycle of sunspot
activity. That cycle is also associated with the reversal of the solar
magnetic polarity, through the Hale 22 year cycle -which is associated
with longer reversals in earth's polarity. However, according to the
Principia and the Wholly Chao, this really is closer to a 23 year cycle
[insert smiley here]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Discordia
The Schwabe solar cycle is not strictly 11 years long; it has been as
short as 9 years and as long as 14 years in recent years. Nevertheless,
statistical predictions of weather, based on these patterns can be made,
subject to the additional factor of human activity.
The data suggests a gradual cooling during the next few centuries with
intermittent minor warmups and a return to another "Little Ice Age" as
early as 2100 although the best guess is two further cycles from that.
There is weak evidence for a quasi-periodic variation in the sunspot
cycle amplitudes with a period of about 90 years, suggesting a maximum
sunspot occurs in three years 2010. I would guess two years later!
If we get through that crisis - not forgetting the importance of the
year 2012 in the Maya Calendar, which by the way is NOT for a natural
catastrophe, necessarily - it just marks the start of another long
B'ak'tun cycle BUT surprisingly it jives with statistical analysis which
suggests that we may well get a pole reversal on earth then - with
unknown consequences - except that North and South Carolina (or North
and South Dakota etc.) will need to switch names - and Santa will have
much further to travel, so look for less presents under the tree <g>...
Now- how did the Maya get that kind of info? ... and don't say from the
illuminati, or Lord-High-Everything-Else, or Skull-and-Bones etc... heck
it has to be from aliens who know that our sun has a companion.
http://www.physorg.com/news65117758.html
Jones
Yes, it is true that the year 2012 is claimed to be a great time of
spiritual transformation or apocalypse -- depending on how many books
the new-age author hopes to sell. The completion of the thirteenth
B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar occurs on December
21, 2012, and by the widely held reckoning on the lecture circuit --
this means to some (mostly wonkettes and reactionaries) that there will
be a major political change in the old world order, and the emergence of
the NWO.
...coinciding, of course, with the start of Barak's second term in
office, and his rise in anti-status, so to speak - according to the
far-right alarmists, many of whom get their info straight from "the
source" as does the current grand poobah.
http://wonkette.com/politics/barack-obama/meet-the-antichrist-209549.php
Methinks that, politics aside, it will only be a pole reversal - but
that could mean pretty major changes ... yet a bonanza for Map-Makers
everywhere.