Climate science is a study of the structure, dynamics and integrity of our planet’s climate systems. Climate is ultimately determined by the complex interplay between that energy and the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land masses.

By no means a recent area of study, Climatology has a 200-year long history dating back to French scientist Joseph Fourier speculating the early theories of heat-trapping atmospheric gases.

It took nearly a century of research and data collection to convince most of the scientific community that the planet’s climate could be negatively affected by human activity. In the 1800’s, early experiments suggested that human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases collected in the atmosphere and caused an insulating effect on Earth, a theory we know today as the greenhouse effect. By the late 1950’s, more accurate CO2 readings on a larger scale finally offered the worrying data to support this growing concern.

As the early researchers knew, man-made global warming was an issue that required thorough evidence and a deeper understanding to prevent a catastrophic alteration of our climate that would potentially lead to the destruction of all habitable zones on the planet. It is by the diligence of our climate scientists that enabled us to notice the slippery slope of human industrialisation, giving us a chance alter our collision course.