One of the most powerful drivers of environmental gloominess and

cultural pessimism is the spectre of ecological apocalypse. The
mutation

of age-old, religious end-time prophecies into secular
predictions

of natural cataclysms and societal collapse - in short, the
emergence

of environmental apocalypticism - is perhaps the most significant
ideological

development in the western world since the demise of Marxism.

Marxist doctrine, let us never forget, crumbled because its
predicted,

and eagerly anticipated, disintegration of free market

economies never transpired, but communist economies and
totalitarian

dictatorships have mostly come to sticky ends.

Deeply infuriated by the failure of their predictions and the
unremitting vibrancy of capitalism, many disillusioned believers
turned to ecological pessimism

and environmental determinism. Not for the first time in the long
history

of apocalyptic movements, new wine was poured into old bottles.

Many ideologues replaced their old beliefs in economic decline
and

breakdown with the new principle of ecological decay and disaster



Dr Benny Peiser

http://www.policynetwork.net/uploaded/pdf/peiser_ch_10.pdf
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Regards

Bonzo

"The Gulf Stream will not stop until the winds stop blowing and
the earth stops rotating" William Kininmonth, meteorologist

Because he wants to make your big nonsense ranting tool slapping in
the wind, Bonzo !

Did you get your Exxon's monthly pay check as yet ? It was posted
yesterday anyway, so be patient !

"HangEveryRepubliKKKan"  wrote
>> 1998 14.57  *********************o*****
>> 1999 14.33  *****************>>>>o
>> 2000 14.33  *****************>>>>>o
>> 2001 14.48  ************************o
>> 2002 14.56  *************************o**
>> 2003 14.55  **************************o*
>> 2004 14.49  *************************>>o
>> 2005 14.63  *****************************o**
>> 2006 14.54  ***************************>>>o
>>
>>   Look at all those "o"'s lined up there.

"Bonzo"  wrote
> The "0"'s are NOT THE DATA!
> They have created a trend which does not exist in the data.
> Voodoo statistics!

  Ahahahahahahahahaha... Stupid KKKonservative KKKlown. A trendline skirts
across the top of the data leaving equal portions of the data above and
below.  In this instane 10 dots above, and 14 below as a result of the crude
nature of ascii graphics.  Nevertheless it represents the best line that can
be fitted to the data based on minimizing the square of the distance between
the line and the real data.  It's called a least squares curve fit.

  You are completely ignorant when it comes to statistics and mathematics in
general aren't you Bonzo.

  Ahahahahahaha.. You don't know what statistics are, where it comes from,
how it is used, or how to use it, and yet in your vast ignorance, you seem
to think that you know more about science than all of the worlds scientists.

  "Voodoo statistics"  Ahahahahahahahah...  You need to go back to public
school and take a refresher course in basic technical literacy.

  Stupid... Stupid.. KKKonservative KKKlown....


"Bonzo"  wrote
> Here is the data which shows NO TREND!
>
> 1998 366.50 2.5721     14.57
> 1999 368.14 2.6148     14.33
> 2000 369.41 2.6399     14.33
> 2001 371.07 2.6672     14.48
> 2002 373.16 2.7032     14.56
> 2003 375.80 2.7487     14.55
> 2004 377.55 NA            14.49
> 2005 379.75 NA            14.63
> 2006 381.90 NA            14.54

  No?  Lets plot the data and find out shall we?  Here it is along with the
best linear fit to the data shown as "o".

1998 14.57  *********************o*****
1999 14.33  *****************>>>>o
2000 14.33  *****************>>>>>o
2001 14.48  ************************o
2002 14.56  *************************o**
2003 14.55  **************************o*
2004 14.49  *************************>>o
2005 14.63  *****************************o**
2006 14.54  ***************************>>>o

Look at all those "o"'s lined up there. The trend is up, Up, UP.

So Bonzo, who is paying you to post lies to this newsgroup?