Mini Ice Age Happened Rapidly

Just like the movie helmed by 2012 director, The Day After Tomorrow, our planet's climate is capable of rapid change, according to scientists from the University of Saskatchewan.

Around 12,800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by the Younger Dryas mini ice age, or "Big Freeze"...and lasted around 1300 years.

Until now, it was thought that the mini ice age took a decade or so to take hold, on the evidence provided by Greenland ice cores.

...The group studied a mud core from an ancient lake, Lough Monreagh, in western Ireland. Using a scalpel they sliced off layers 0.5 to 1 millimetre thick, each representing up to three months of time. No other measurements from the period have approached this level of detail.

...They show that at the start of the Big Freeze, temperatures plummeted and lake productivity stopped within months, or a year at most. "It would be like taking Ireland today and moving it up to Svalbard" in the Arctic, says Patterson.

The drop in temperatures averaged 5 degrees globally, but as much as 15 degrees in Greenland. The date of the mini ice age, and the rapid onset, suggest a global cataclysm caused by a pole shift or asteroid/comet. Numerous books have been recently hypothesising either scenario, and this new evidence makes their ideas even more compelling.

Patrick Geryl Discovers Labyrinth in Egypt

With financial support from Louis De Cordier, 2012 author Patrick Geryl has used ground-penetrating radar to provide evidence for the legendary "labyrinth" and possible home of the Hall of Records to be located in Hawara, Egypt. Zahi Hawass is now involved and excavations have begun.

The situation is starting to look a little embrassing for Egyptian authorities, given that English author Andrew Collins is publicizing a relatively undiscovered series of tunnels and chambers below the Giza plateau, which he just found from taking an educated wander.

Could independent researchers be close to discovering some remarkably secret places?

Apocalyptic Entertainment Cranks Up A Notch

Here's some evidence that whichever way you work it, Hollywood is giving us what we are into, or writers are feeling the vibe, the "end of the world" is really, deeply, seriously in vogue:

Len Wiseman (Underworld, Die Hard 4.0), has in development - "Nocturne" which centers on a handful of survivors following a wide-scale apocalyptic event and how each of them arrived at their current dilemma.

2013 TV Series - Roland Emmerich (producer of the current 2012 movie) is involved in a tv show that will focus on the survivors of a 2012 doomsday, and he suggests it will appeal to the same niche audience as Lost.

A documentary series is in development for the History Channel, with a title of Seekers 2012. A reality show, it will be very much based on the X Files concept:

Ideal Investigators would already be a team (husband and wife, co-workers) who fall somewhere between the FBI Agents on “The X Files” and “Indiana Jones”. One is a believer, the other a skeptic. One is driven by reason, science and empirical evidence, the other by feelings, intuitions and faith.

Ideally, the woman would be the skeptic and the man the believer.

Opinions I have read suggest that there will be significantly more applicants for the "Mulder" role.

Cormac McCarthy's The Road is now a movie, and the story starts like this:

The world is in ruins after an apocalyptic event that is never described. A father and his son are walking south in an attempt to escape the increasingly cold, endless winter. Along the way they have to avoid gangs of lawless killers. Their only weapon is a pistol with 2 bullets.

And that's just a sample...

Rob on Nat Geo - Sneak Peek

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed for a documentary regarding a pole shift in 2012. The title is a little misleading, 2012 - Countdown to Armageddon, but hopefully will encourage many people to listen to the science behind the pole shift scenario. I'm in the preview below, if you want to check out my accent and our fireplace.

The documentary screens on National Geographic channel this Sunday at 8pm, USA only at this stage.