You really are a cretin – tell everyone here how the Jabiluka uranium deposit was found.

You don’t know?

Well, it was found geochemically from stream sediment sampling – the exploration people at the time found a high assay of uranium in a sample taken from a creek, and discovered that it was the Jabiluka uranium deposit that outcropped and was releasing uranium (it’s quite water soluble) into the water course.

I suppose you are going to now blame us in the mining industry for that as well, are you?

Splendid – not often we find ourselves on trial with Mother Nature/God.

Actually mining is simply an acceleration of the natural process of weathering and erosion – in time most mineral deposits will be eroded and deposited into new places. So mining is, from one viewpoint, quite natural.

Rivers of blue.

Quite – actually the variation of CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere is an effect of a change in the Earth’s climate from external factors.

Our Greeny friends have never understood Isaac Newton’s primary insight – that things change when acted on by an EXTERNAL force.

This is venturing into the philosophical area, no doubt, but from the Plasma Model, life waxes and wanes according to the variation in solar electrical input.

For reasons I have not yet worked out, Climate Changers seem to believe that humanity can affect the order of Nature.

However, none seem to understand that we are an epiphenomenon of the enviromment we are found in, and not that environment’s creator.

If we took their logic to heart, we would be obliged to exterminate all the beavers that dammed creeks in the Nothern America’s for environmental insensitivity.

Better described as someone who was rescued in time from hypothermia, but our Luke is a mathematical physicist, in Ivory Tower, so these crass physical states are not within his purview.

Nor might science given his predeliction for the omnipotence of Gravity, and it’s failure to mimic a solar system with 3 bodies, or has he ‘ad hoceries’ to dismiss that as well?

Luke, so how would you describe it?
Rebound?
Return to MWP levels?
Return to previously enjoyed periods?
Flight from frozen arse?
Death by luxury?
or is anthropomorphic your only hook.

Here in the U.S. we have a venerable tradition of corporate welfare. So the Capitalist angle does have some plausibility. It’s axiomatic that large corporations are always on the lookout for a fast buck. But is that the driving force?

Are both schools of thought mistaken? Or are they both right, in their own ways? Hell if I know.