Background on the author.

I've spent quite a bit of time browsing Internet sites looking for information on global warming and 2012. Too often, there's no information at all about the creators or authors included with the site, so it's difficult to tell in many cases where those people stand in this regard.

Our backgrounds, beliefs and opinions greatly affect how we interpret and present information. That's why I've decided to include this page. I don't consider myself to be alarmist, gullible or a conspiracy theorist, I'm not a crackpot or extremist in any way shape or form and feel it's important for visitors to this site to have some idea of who and what I am, hopefully it will enable you to read the content of this site without wondering if the author is crazy!

Most of my working life has been spent in various roles within the construction industry with a background in carpentry and more recently working in lower management roles. For a time I left construction and retrained in IT, mostly computer graphics and web design. After training I began working as a support technician and part time instructor/lecturer. This finally led to a position of IT manager at a successful further education college.

I'm also a qualified hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and cognitive behavioural therapist, so I know something of the human condition, how beliefs are formed and how they impact on our daily lives.

In my leisure time I like to climb and go mountain biking. These two things give me an interest in the outdoors, a respect for the countryside and for nature. I don't want to see these things destroyed, on a personal level because I'd like there to be places for myself and friends to continue to climb, hike and ride in the years to come. I'd like future generations to be able to enjoy these things too. For there always to be snow and ice for the skiers and snow boarders, for there always to be warm sunny beaches for those that like to relax. One way or another, we all take something from the outdoors, from nature. It needs preserving and respecting for the sake of future generations and for the well being of every species that inhabits the planet.

I have a very strong dislike of being dictated too. I'm not sure where this comes from but I do know that I tend to rebel against it, the stronger the dictation the harder I rebel. In a way that's partly what led to this site's creation, I find it patronising in the extreme to have governments and local authorities tell us what we should and should not put into our rubbish bins! Yes we should be more thoughtful about waste, how much we create and what we do with it, but be honest about why! I know my local authority, like all others, is starved of cash year in year out by central government, they need to find ways to make saving and at the same time bring in more revenue. Cutting down on how much waste is collected, either in quantity or frequency will cut costs, charging for the removal of previously uncharged items of waste generates income, as does imposing penalties on those who break the new rules. It's a business. It's backed by the new religion, environmentalism. It's as powerful as it is misguided.

I'm in no way religious, unless you want to call atheism a religion.

So what brought me to want to create this site? Like everyone, I've heard many the tales of woe and listened to the so called scientific evidence that can be found in the media concerning climate change and global warming. I was always skeptical and sought to find the other side of the argument. I'd watched as the environmentalist movement grew to become the new religion of the 20 and 21st centuries. I'd watched as governments sought to take control, not just of the problem of global warming but of ever growing chunks of our lives, all in the name of climate change.

Then I started hearing about 2012, if I recall correctly my first encounter was via a documentary on television, though I can't remember which one. My interest grew and I read and learned more on the subject. Some of it is to me as misguided and pseudo religious as the environmentalist movement, but then there are always extremists in every field. It wasn't long before I came to see a possible link to global warming, an alternative answer to the one given in the media and by governments the world over. And, it made a lot more sense, the science behind it seemed stronger by far.

Maybe you'll begin to feel the same way as you discover for yourself more of the facts and fiction that lie behind these two things.

After having spent the last week talking to lots of people about this site and browsing the internet researching various bits of data I feel I need to make my own position on this subject quite clear.

I DO NOT believe that the world is coming to an end on December 21st 2012, nor any date close to it.

I DO NOT believe that the Mayans were trying to warn us of a coming apocalypse in 2012

I'm not even of the belief that the world will suffer from a natural disaster on a global scale on or around that time. I've included sections on the Mayan calendar, Nostradamus and the Bible in order to give some background to the reader as to why the year 2012 is seen by many as being so significant. The 2012 phenomenon has generated a huge amount of interest from the extremists, the conspiracy theorists and the lunatics of society. I DO NOT hold to the same beliefs and theories as those who claim to 'channel mystical energy' those that have 'telepathic links to God or Gods' or any other such fantasy. They make nice stories to some, but there's no evidence to support them, no science behind their beliefs or their claims.

I DO believe that the potential for astronomical events to have an affect on the climate of our planet is worth investigating.

I also believe that the current thinking on global warming, that it is essentially man made, is wrong, and that it is more likely that solar and associated events are impacting on our planets climate. I intend to present the science behind these beliefs.

The sole reason for this site having a 2012 association lies in the fact that there are areas of current scientific thinking that indicate that 2012 will be a year of unusually activity from an astronomical perspective, and that this activity could have serious implications for us here on earth.