Climate system in a nutshell: An overview for understanding Climate change
International Journal of Development Research
Climate system in a nutshell: An overview for understanding Climate change
Received 10th October, 2021; Received in revised form 19th November, 2021; Accepted 24th December, 2021; Published online 30th January, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Michelle Simões Reboita and Tércio Ambrizzi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Along the Earth planet’s history (~4.5 billion years) events of climate change have occurred but not so fast as in the last hundred years. This literature review summarizes the main aspects of the physics of the climate to explain in a simple way the natural forcings that affect the climate system and lead to climate change. But, only natural forcings are not enough to justify the increase of ~1.1oC in the global average of air temperature since the pre-industrial period. In this sense, the contribution of human beings to climate change is highlighted and it is shown that their activities are the main responsible for the fast increase in the average air temperature.
