In studying climate change, equations of physics play a fundamental role.

But the
issue has been transcended the boundaries of science and involves perspectives that derive
from the fields of economics, politics, cultural and religious beliefs. Issues regarding climate
are the subject of debate and disagreement of different leaders worldwide.

According to President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines are least responsible for
climate change but always carry the heaviest burden. In the recent Global Peace Index 2019
report, Philippines was listed as the most vulnerable to climate risks in terms of its overall
natural hazard score, followed by Japan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and China.

But first what is climate change? Climate refers to a long term weather patterns
prevailing over a given area of the planet. The term comes from a Greek word klinein
meaning to slope. It evolved into klima, implying a region of the earth as characterized by its
atmospheric conditions. Climate change is the range of global phenomena caused by burning
fossil fuels that add heat-trapping gases to the Earth’s atmosphere.

CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Factors that contribute to climate change can be natural internal process, external
forces and persistent changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in the land use. It can
also be due to natural occurrences or contributes by acts of human being.