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Many millennia ago, the Ancient Mayan civilization predicted that the world would face its ultimate demise in the year 2012. While some bash this theory as pseudoscientific alarmism, others fervently believe in the truth of these claims.

According to these apocalyptic predictions, horrific natural disasters will follow a cataclysmic collision of a large meteor with the earth. Typhoons, floods, glacial melt, and a geomagnetic reversal will cause unprecedented chaos and pandemonium.

Scientific fact or doomsday fiction? In this series, scientists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson dismiss the predictions while others discuss the psychology of disaster and the politics of glacial melt.

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