http://www.mayacalendar.org/mayan-calendar-accuracy.htm

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/340091/20120511/oldest-mayan-calendar-guatemala-2012-doomsday-myth.htm

"The discovery of the oldest known Mayan calendar to date gives no hint that the world will end in December 2012 - a belief strongly held by 10 percent of the world's population."

"Proponents of the doomsday theory believe that 2012 would mark the end of the last of the 13 "baktuns," but the newly discovered calendar has 17 "baktuns" which means that the world will not end in December 2012."

700 million people are going to feel very silly in three months and a week.

Prepare to be underwhelmed. However, it IS the winter solstice, so you'll have lengthening days to look forward too after the brief disappointment of not getting that fiery inferno as an early Christmas present!