| Climate change is undeniable. Whether that is because | | | | where fossil fuels are burned, and it is this little extra |
| of the ever-growing evidence or just because | | | | which is leaving us on a collision course with disaster. |
| denying it puts you in the same league as serial killers | | | | The facts seem to check out and it is on this basis |
| and animal torturers is immaterial. The proof is there | | | | that the governments of the world are finally acting. |
| for all to see – almost all scientists agree that the | | | | Here though, it is not a case of all-out hysteria, but |
| earth has grown steadily warmer since the mid 19th | | | | instead simply limiting emissions sensibly and looking |
| century and the fact that the start of this increase | | | | for alternative energy sources. Carbon Dioxide is |
| coincides with the industrial revolution has be seen by | | | | certainly not the only the only cause of climate |
| many as rather significant. For some the burning of | | | | change, but limiting it will certainly benefit us all in the |
| fossil fuels is a key point to the sudden threat of | | | | long run. |
| global warming, while others point out, perhaps | | | | In this respect, governments around the globe are |
| rightly, that this is simply when more accurate | | | | looking at ways to help limit this. Environmental |
| records began. | | | | compliance is already mandatory for companies all |
| It is also true to say that, over the millenniums our | | | | across the world, with regulations currently set to |
| planet has been around, the temperature has | | | | restrict hazardous substances, limit electrical waste |
| constantly warmed and cool, prompting ice ages and | | | | and control chemical risk. The current compliance rules |
| heat waves. However, up until recently, this natural | | | | already have an impact on all forms of mechanical |
| process was not such a threat. Climate change is | | | | engineering and depending on the decisions made in |
| definitely happening, has always been happening and | | | | the near future, the roles may well soon reverse and |
| will always happen, but the key question is whether | | | | the effect of the environment on industry will be |
| or not we are now tipping what was always a fragile | | | | something that grows dramatically. But as technology |
| balance finally over the edge. | | | | advances, the ability for mechanical engineering to |
| Carbon Dioxide and other natural gasses such as | | | | deal with these problems advances too. |
| methane and nitrous oxide trap in solar heat, keeping | | | | Environmental compliance is already hugely important |
| our planet habitable. These gasses are produced | | | | for any company, and the significance of finding the |
| every day in ways which are completely unaffected | | | | right people to ensure that environmental regulations |
| by human involvement. What the environmental | | | | are met will only grow as our environment continues |
| lobbyists propose is that, while we might not be | | | | to change. So whatever your business, it's time to |
| matching these natural levels that have always been | | | | start thinking about the environment - whether it's |
| produced, we are adding to them with cars, | | | | climate change or whether it's just simply being safe. |
| factories, power plants and through any other means | | | | |