%0 book part
%@ 
%A Storch, H.v., Bunde, A., Sehr, N.

%D 2011
%J The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

%P 113-128 

%T The Physical Sciences and Climate Politics
%U 
 
%X science field comprises the “physics of the climate system”. Nonetheless, this is only part of the story; another significant part of the set of issues represented by “climate" is deeply embedded in social and cultural processes, in particular the field of societyclimate interaction,. Thus, climate science is a genuinely trans-disciplinary scientific field, which poses special challenges and approaches requiring the skills of both physical and other natural science professionals as well as social and cultural scientists.