There are different schools of thought regarding climate change. One of them believes that such change is solely a natural process, and it has nothing to do with human influence. On the other hand, the second school of thought considers climate change as the direct consequence of anthropogenic activities. Nevertheless, the most rational approach towards this matter is considering the current climate change as a natural process of climatic variations intensified by the ‘environmental unfriendly activities’ of human beings. Although earth has naturally gone through various phases of climatic variation (like ice-age in the ancient geological time), still the current…
Author: Laraib Ehtasham
When people hear the term ‘environmental science’, the concept that most probably pops up in their minds is ‘pollution’; and if they process their thoughts a little further, they might think of another concept, that is ‘climate change’. This is because most of the people are not familiar with the depth and complexity of environmental science. This makes it a very misunderstood field of study and results in the association of only the two aforementioned concepts with this field. In fact, the scope of environmental science is way beyond our perception about it. At one moment we might be standing…