Apocalypse not now? 2012?

[Reaves]

I've been seeing a few documentaries popup about this date and while i'm not normally a fan of tin hat type stuff every now and then i'll take it out of the lead box and pop it on.

The Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012 and apparently this will be the big end of days. The thing that gets me with this one is that there is actuall scientific proof that on that date the Earth will in alignment with the Sun and the centre of the milky way and it's believed that this effect will cause the polarity to reverse. North will be south etc, etc.

August 15, 2006: On July 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. It popped up from the sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. On the sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth mentioning. But this sunspot was special: It was backward. "We've been waiting for this," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Alabama. "A backward sunspot is a sign that the next solar cycle is beginning."

"Backward" means magnetically backward. Hathaway explains:
Sunspots are planet-sized magnets created by the sun's inner magnetic dynamo. Like all magnets in the Universe, sunspots have north (N) and south (S) magnetic poles. The sunspot of July 31st popped up at solar longitude 65o W, latitude 13o S. Sunspots in that area are normally oriented N-S. The newcomer, however, was S-N, opposite the norm.
This tiny spot of backwardness matters because of what it might foretell: A really big solar cycle. Solar activity rises and falls in 11-year cycles, swinging back and forth between times of quiet and storminess. Right now the sun is quiet. "We're near the end of Solar Cycle 23, which peaked way back in 2001," explains Hathaway. The next cycle, Solar Cycle 24, should begin "any time now," returning the sun to a stormy state.
Satellite operators and NASA mission planners are bracing for this next solar cycle because it is expected to be exceptionally stormy, perhaps the stormiest in decades. Sunspots and solar flares will return in abundance, producing bright auroras on Earth and dangerous proton storms in space.

The Mayans were known for their calendar as it predicted solar ecplises and similar occurances correctly. Not a small feat for a civilization that was consider barbaric by the Europeans of the time.

Now forget about you climate change, if that happens the crap won't just hit the fan, it'll engulf the thing.

Anyone else interested/seen/read anything on this?