[Revised entry by Wendy Parker on March 20, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Climate science investigates the structure and dynamics of earth’s climate system. It seeks to understand how global, regional and local climates are maintained as well as the processes by which they change over time. In doing so, it employs observations and theory from a variety of domains, including meteorology, oceanography, physics, chemistry and more. This entry provides an overview of some of the core concepts and practices of contemporary climate science as well as philosophical work that engages with them….
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