Abstract
As an initial educated look tells us, the scientific analysis of climate is
mostly a physical science discipline. The object of climate science is not a social construct but part of the real world that is governed by physical principles, such as conservation of energy, momentum and mass in hydrodynamics. Thus, the climate
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.
