Debunking the 2012 solar poles apocalypse

This morning I received a mildly hysterical email about the end of the world in 2012. NASA was mentioned, solar poles, magnets, flipping of the earth's axis in response, and an all-around end of the earth as we know it. Snopes.com has a bit about the Mayan calendar, but I couldn't find anything about this pole switching business. Could anyone point me in the direction of a reputable place to look?

Didn't the world end already in August 1999, when we had the solar eclipse? Nostradamus said it did.

Reversals
try along this search line.
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Here you go... with every sun spot cycle ( i.e. 11 years approximate) the sun switches its magnetic polarity...they are still figuring it out...

Solar Pole switch

The earth does it too...but less often ( once in a 250,000 or 200,000 years)

http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/reversals.html

And damn..we all survive!

Thanks, all. Interesting stuff, btw! I thought it was completely bogus when I first heard about it.