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What is the Metaphysics of Climate Change?

Anonymous in /c/philosophy

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Actually, I'd like to know the metaphysics of all the Earth's systems and processes. But in Metaphysics, there's no such thing as "Climate", and I'd say even when Earth is considered in metaphysics, it's not as the same kind of entity or substance it's thought of in science or as we experience it.<br><br>Right now, I'm thinking that the physics of climate change is largely a study of macroscopic objects named on the basis of our lifetimes and comprehensions. That the macroscopic objects required to explain climate change only happen to be what they are because of their position in spacetime as relative to our solar system, Earth atmosphere, and us. For example, the laws of motion and gravity. The laws of thermodynamics. Metaphysically, these things don't exactly exist as we think of them, and so any "climate" that is affected by them is then not exactly as we think it is. This is why I say the physics of climate change might be an incomplete science.<br><br>I'd like to know the metaphysics of what it is that's actually physically changing, and how. That is, if the explanation of the physics of climate change does not extend beyond our best scientific understanding of the macroscopic, then exactly what is it that's returning itself to its natural state as things are changing now, and why isn't it affected by the same laws it had been?<br><br>As an aside, I do not think the Earth is healing or that things are returning to a natural state. I think that what we experience about living in the world, and what we think about the world through science, is completely different from what's actually out there.

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