Lies, damn lies and statistics as they say. I'm no expert (on anything) but I do generally investigate further when I hear information that is of some consequence. Just like I did when I first heard about the concept of global warming some years back.
To date I have found no evidence that shows me anything more than a small trend over a miniscule number of years. Statistically insignificant they would say if they had data going back to the ends of time. As it is they have data going back one or two hundred years. Ice data is no good in proving or disproving anything as it is all based on a series of assumptions which we may or may not have got right in the first place.
As far as I'm concerned it seems to me that we humans are big noting ourselves again to believe that we could be capable of influencing anything so large. The world will cope and if not we will adapt to the new environment. We have probably another 50 years before we have viable nuclear fusion anyway and then we will have all of the tools to fix this if it is even our problem in the first place.
Frankly, if you use anything electrical or drive a car and then complain about our irresponsible carbon emisions you are a hypocrite. Every individual can make a difference no matter how small if they so chose. If global warming is true then we simply value our comforts more than our environment. Well that's what survival of the fittest is all about, isn't it? Blow the rest, we'll be alright.
But the original question was really one of more a political nature. Are we being manipulated by our government into a position of supporting uranium mining by an emphasis on global warming? Well the answer is probably yes, of course. That's how democracy works.
Unfortunately 99% of the population is stupid. If it wasn't, a democracy would never work. If everybody was intelligent enough to make a reasoned, informed choice nothing of worth would ever get done. Fact is, a lot of things that are good for us as a group (nation, etc.) would be very unpopular on an individual level.
Look at the greatest civilizations of all times. Autocracy, autocracy, autocracy. When Rome changed to a true democracy it was the beginning of the end. Only an intelligent, benevolent individual, unfettered by the need to gain favour or approval from their peers or subjects can ever make the right decision 100% of the time because they do not have to consider the consequences to the individual. Every democratic system at some point comes down to the interests of the individual and not the group. Bad decisions are made for the group in the interests of the individual.
It is only by the manipulation of the general population that a democracy can ever get anything done. And we are the idiots my friends, you and me. We don't like to think of it that way but it's true.
Man's greatest deception is and always has been self-deception. On every level we are but a very small cog in a very large machine. Every time you get to a dark sky look up and try and convince yourself that you are significant in the big scheme of things. I dare you.
(That's for me not anyone else!)
Travis