
Climate change?
What if climate change were a hoax? I thought it would be interesting, for this my final column for this fine magazine, to open with this rather controversial question. And I know it may take some regular readers of this magazine by surprise given that it comes from yours truly! After all, there has rarely been an article that I have written for SHEQ Management that has not in some way embedded the issue of climate change, from my articles on peak oil to environmental education, to traffic, to even a night at the movies. Yet I think the question is worth posing… What if this entire palaver and all this fierce debate about global warming and climate change all comes to nought?