2012...Mayan calandar, Notstradamnus, hocus pocus.....seems like every decade or so Nostradamnus had a plan for the end of the world...guess I'll sleep through this one too.
Sunspots are actually at historic lows...at least lows for the last 100 years or so. A big flare occurs every now and then...it also has to do with direction (aim) whether a big flare hits us and whacks us or not...
We probably will enter a permanent global oil shortage in 5 years or so, just because we will.
I'm more concerned about an EMP attack or, even more likely in the near term, government health care which will turn out to be a cruel oxymoron foisted upon us by fascist morons.