Vol. 10, Issue 1, Part C (2024)

This paper investigates the role of physics especially thermodynamics, is at the heart of Global Warming. Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth\'s climate system observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth\'s atmosphere. The term is frequently used interchangeably with the term climate change, though the latter refers to both human- and naturally produced warming and the effects it has on our planet. It is most commonly measured as the average increase in Earth\'s global surface temperature. Physics lies at the core of the earth sciences. It is essential for understanding the deep structure of Earth and the natural phenomena that affect Earth\'s surface, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. These topics, along with others aspects of the physics of Earth. Physics also provides a basis for understanding the dynamic interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans and for the study of short-term weather and long-term climate change. This understanding is essential to stewardship of the environment: for addressing problems like urban air pollution and lake acidification and for dealing with natural hazards such as floods and hurricanes. Much of physics is the study of energy and its transformation, and energy lies at the heart of important environmental issues. Climate is shaped by how the energy of the Sun affects movement of the atmosphere and oceans and how they in turn distribute energy around the world. Most of the impact of humans on the environment revolves around the need for energy production. To understand the complexities of the environment and to address problems effectively, the underlying physics must be combined with chemistry, geology, atmospheric and oceanic science, and biology. The ocean-atmosphere system, environmental monitoring and improvement, and energy production and the environment are three areas where an understanding of the basic physics has played a central role and where it is crucial for further progress. In the years ahead, a continuing improvement in our understanding of the remarkable concentration of energy involved in severe weather patterns causing Global Warming. This progress will come from a combination of theoretical modeling, computer simulation, and direct measurement, each drawing on the tools of physics and each conducted by researchers schooled in the methods of physics. At that stage of understanding, it was thought that variability in the oceans and variability in the atmosphere were relatively independent of each other on time scales shorter than decades.