The disasters that are predicted to happen in 2012, is that to make up for Y2K not happening?

Answer 1

No, this is not related to Y2K, at least not directly.

This is just another attempt by people to make money or ratings off of fear. They tell horror stories to get people worked up and watch their show or buy their books. The guy who did the most talking about Y2K made a fortune off of his book about it.
This is another cash cow for people to ride.

Does it have something to stand on?
The Aztec/Mayan calendar ends that year with the "death of the 6th Sun." They did have some amazing calculations about the lunar cycles since the "death of the 5th sun" happened exactly at the time of a total eclipse over Mexico city.
It is theorizes that ever 23,000 years or so the poles of the Earth shift, and this is supposed to happen in 2012. The Earth supposedly will realign itself when the shift occurs, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, maybe even destruction of the Earth.
The 3rd and last theory is that in 2012 all of the planets in the solar system and some other objects will align in such a way that the Earth will be thrown off (either into the sun or out of orbit and perhaps the solar system) by this alignment.

Honestly, don't worry about it. Its all fear tactics the same as Y2K. What can you do about it anyway?
Just relax and watch the others act stupid as they panic.

Answer 2

Who knows what will happen in or around that year? Sometimes propheices can come true because people make them come true.

Here's a quote from a wikpedia article on 2012:

"2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.

Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:

The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.
The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by disembodied entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planets and stars. However, some Mayan priests living and working in Guatemala assert that there is no legitimacy to this theory.
The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
The book The Nostradamus Code speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet (possibly as above) that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction.
The book The Orion Prophecy claims that the Earth's magnetic field will reverse.
The 2005 book Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy by Geoff Stray reviews several theories, prophecies and predictions concerning 2012 and finds where authors have used faulty information or have bent the truth to fit their theories.
The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
The 2007 book Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph does not make any specific new predictions, but it reviews a number of 2012 predictions made by various sources, and presents arguments for the possible existence of dangerous positive feedback loops involving solar storms, Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays, hurricanes, global warming, earthquakes, and supervolcanoes that may be on the verge of erupting.
Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:

Terence McKenna's mathematical novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
Some proponents of a peak oil catastrophe place major events in 2012. Richard C. Duncan's book The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge claims that the Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide. Several studies predict a peak in oil production in or around 2012. [13][14][15]
Some alien-enthusiasts (e.g. Riley Martin), along with some new-agers, believe 2012 to correspond approximately with the return of alien "watchers" or "caretakers" who might have helped the first human civilizations with developing their technology and may have been waiting for us to reach a higher level of technological and/or social advancement. Beliefs range from the extra-terrestrials having benevolent purposes — such as to help human society evolve — to malevolent purposes — such as enslavement of mankind and/or manipulation.
There is a Hindu following indicating the appearance of an Avatar (God in human form) with God-like powers who will herald a new age. A website to this effect appears at: End of the World 2012. "

Answer 3

most of the 2012 predictions are due to the Aztec calender ending on Dec 21, 2012. The ending of the calender means the end of an age and (as most people forget) the beginning of a new age. A time of major upheavels as the old age dies and the new age is birth. It is the end, but also the beginning.

Answer 4

The Mayan calendar predicts nothing. It simply shows and charts the observed movements of the Sun and some of the planets. Let me repeat this: the Mayans did NOT predict anything. Neither did their calendar, which does NOT end in 2012.

Answer 5

humans really should stop trying to scare themselves by so called prophecies

the word will not end in 2012 instead it'll just be the time of a new beginning, perhaps that of the one world government and one world currency and no I am not implying that it's going to be such a bad thing

the Y2K bug is just one of many many many predictions that haven't happened...

Answer 6

What is going to be happening in 2012 is the end of i think the Gregorian calendar.
All i think though is it's built up as being something.
I can say there is a zilch chance of something happening in 2012.
But did you know we are going to get the same problem we did with the Y2Kbug around 2030.

Answer 7

yea it's when the ancient myan (bad spelling)calender ends

Answer 8

what disasters are predicted?