scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact仔细观察大气温室效应和气候的影响.pdf

Vol.3, No.12, 971-998 (2011) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2011.312124 Scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact Gerhard Kramm1*, Ralph Dlugi2 1Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska; *Corresponding Author: kramm@ 2Arbeitsgruppe Atmosphärische Prozesse (AGAP), Munich, Germany. Received 23 August 2011; revised 30 September 2011; accepted 17 October 2011. ABSTRACT Keywords: Physical Climatology; Statistical Climatology; Atmospheric Greenhouse In this paper, we scrutinize two completely dif- Effect; Earth-Atmosphere System ferent explanations of the so-called atmospheric greenhouse effect: First, the explanation of the 1. INTRODUCTION American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the World Meteorological Organization (W·MO) quan- Recently, Gerlich and Tscheuschner [2] listed a wide tifying this effect by two characteristic tem- variety of attempts to explain the so-called atmospheric peratures, secondly, the explanation of Rama- greenhouse effect. They disproved these explanations at nathan et al. [1] that is mainly based on an en- the hand of fundamental physical principles like the ergy-flux budget for the Earth-atmosphere sys- second law of thermodynamics. By showing that 1) there tem. Both explanations are related to the global are no common physical laws between the warming scale. In addition, we debate the meaning of phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmos- climate, climate change, clim