I've watched the movie, as well. However:

1) In the film, the increase of the earth's core temperature and shifting tectonic plates are blamed on mutated neutrinos. Mutations only occur in living things, as any simple biology class will teach you. Neutrinos are subatomic particles and are unable to mutate.

2) The movie also mentioned that a group of Mayans has performed ritual suicides due to this day. BUT Mayans don't even believe in the end of the world on this date. Their calendar doesn't stop at 12/12/2012; they believe that the world enters eras every couple thousand years or so and this date will bring in a new one. But you don't see Mayans today running around panicking that the world will end. If they don't believe it, why should you?

3) Although it is true that the sun's flares can have effects on the earth's surface temperature, even the most powerful flares have had minimal effects. Furthermore, the surface temperature isn't really relevant to the core temp.

4) It wouldn't happen so quickly. If you've watched the Day After Tomorrow (same director as 2012), what both movies have in common is how accelerated the events are. The earth drops to subzero temperatures in a matter of DAYS. The world ends in a matter of HOURS. Really, now.

5) There's hundreds of apocalypse theories that aren't mentioned in the movie but are always shot down by scientists. Another popular theory is that on that day, earth will collide or be passed by Planet X (some madeup planet traveling through the universe). If this happens, the effects on the earth could be devastating. BUT, the good news is that this planet doesn't even exist, and if there were some crazy planet hurtling toward earth, we'd have detected it by now.

6) Everyone's stressing about the world ending on 12/12. However, the reality is that the chances of the world ending on that day are the same as it ending tomorrow, a month from now, or 10 years from now. What you saw in the movie with Yellowstone's eruption is fairly true - if that volcano were to erupt, the entire western hemisphere would be wiped out in a matter of hours. What the movie didn't tell you is that nobody would survive, even if we were to get on cute little arks like Jackson and crew did. Yellowstone would launch so much soil and dust into the air that we'd find ourselves in a nuclear winter. Nobody knows when (or if) this volcano will erupt. Everyone just assumes it's 2012 because it's such a famed date.

So you shouldn't be scared. Nobody can say for certain that the world will end on that date. Besides, the last apocalypse scare (Y2K) came and went, and NOTHING HAPPENED.

wow! you put in so much effort. well, i'm not scared, i think its a bunch of bullshit.. my friend katie like talks about it every day and how shes so scared for it and i just wanted a reallly good argument to tell her that it wont happen and such. thank you for your effort it wsa really good! 5 stars

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