全球变暖不仅是当今大气科学乃至整个地球科学的热门研究领域,也是国际社会争论较多的热门话题.文章的目的并不是为了澄清这些争论,而是集中于简要阐述全球变暖的物理学基础,回顾其近200年的科学发展历史.藉此希望对非大气科学背景的学者理解有关全球变暖的科学问题有所帮助.
Global warming is not only a hot research area in atmospheric sciences and even all Earth sciences but is also a controversial topic in the international community. The purpose of this paper is not to clarify these controversies, but instead, to address the physical basis on which our understanding of global warming is founded, and to briefly review the nearly 200-year history of global warming sciences. We hope the paper will help readers, who have no background in the atmospheric and climate sciences, understand scientific issues of global warming.