What is Academician Ye Duzheng's ideal, and what inspiration do you get from it?

Academician Ye Duzheng: Science, at any time, can't be said to be "forward-looking" and "forward-looking" in scientific research, which comes from both the spirit of breaking the convention and the accumulation of knowledge.

Just when the film The Day After Tomorrow was released in May 2004, many scientists were still criticizing this sci-fi film, which had no scientific basis and was far from reality. However, five years later, even ordinary people with ordinary scientific literacy can't deny the reality of global warming.

Twenty-four years ago, few people realized this. At that time, this was a controversial field in international academic circles.

1in the summer of 984, Ye Duzheng's American friend and meteorologist Malone found him, hoping to cooperate in studying global climate change. At that time, there was no research on global warming, only global change. But there is evidence that so many greenhouse gases enter the atmosphere that it can't stay there without "doing", and it will definitely cause changes.

At that time, Malone's views were isolated in the United States and few people paid attention to them. So he went to Ye Duzheng and offered to find someone younger than them, because global change can't be decided in three or five years.

Ye Duzheng went to Fu Yunbin and then to Chen. "We are under a lot of pressure-we didn't realize the significance of this matter! Some academicians even said, what does the world change and let it change? What does it mean to us? " Ye Duzheng said.

"My idea at that time was simple. There will definitely be changes. The question is how to change it? What should China do in the face of change? We are engaged in science. At that time, science could not talk about everything. " Ye Duzheng said that this belief has enabled more and more scientists to unite around the pioneers. Now, whether it is profound knowledge such as the change of the earth's rotation speed, or specific problems such as decorating houses and installing windows, we must consider the factors of global warming. For the first time, human beings are ahead of large-scale changes in nature, predicting and grasping their own future.

Since then, Ye Duzheng has actively organized and led climate change research in China. 65438-0986, the National Natural Science Foundation has just been established. Ye Duzheng, then vice president of China Academy of Sciences, came to the Ministry of Earth Sciences to introduce the significance of climate change and global environmental change and its major scientific issues. Since then, the National Natural Science Foundation has given sustained and strong support to the study of global change.

1987, Ye Duzheng initiated the establishment of a major scientific fund project "Observation and Experimental Research on Earth-Air Interaction in Heihe Region" (HEIFE), but it was not applied by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, but was hosted by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Lanzhou Plateau, which has a more geographical advantage.

Ye Duzheng actively participated in the establishment of the Global Change Science Organization (IGBP), played an important role and contributed a series of scientific ideas: the sensitivity of the transition zone between climate and vegetation, the role of atmospheric chemistry in global change, and the adaptation of "orderly human activities" to global change. After simulation calculation, he pointed out that the impact of large-scale irrigation on climate and hydrology can last for 3 ~ 6 months, thus proving the possibility of human activities affecting climate (called "land memory").

Ye Duzheng made China's climate research a systematic project, involving science, politics, economy, diplomacy and other fields. The problem revealed by the study of "global change"-human activities can lead to climate change, which in turn restricts human activities, and human beings must limit their actions and take the road of sustainable development.

In the past century, disorderly human activities have led to a sharp deterioration of the environment. Ye Duzheng's research on global climate change, global change caused by land use, making full use of the positive effects of global warming and reducing its negative effects have become the core research contents of the international geosphere-biosphere plan. In 2003, he first put forward the concept of "orderly human activities".

It is the research in the field of global change science that won Ye Duzheng the 48th World Meteorological Organization Award, which was called the Nobel Prize in Meteorology in 2003. The World Meteorological Organization rated Ye Duzheng as "the pioneer of global change research". The secretariat of the China National Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program evaluates him as: since 1980s, he has made great contributions to the study of global change, atmospheric circulation and climate change, and made pioneering contributions to the study of global change in China.

At the beginning of 2005, Academician Ye Duzheng and Academician Fu Yunbin suggested in the 2005 Scientific Development Report that the state should open up special channels to support China in hosting several major international scientific research projects, so as to "get the latest information and research results as quickly as possible and strive for a greater say in international scientific research".

In June, 2005, Ye Duzheng and eight academicians jointly wrote to the Central Committee, proposing the establishment of a "National Special Advisory Group on Climate Change Science". This proposal received a positive response. From June 5438, 2006 to June 65438+2, 20061October, Ding, Pan Jiahua and other experts 12 became the first climate change expert committee. This committee is called the central "climate change think tank".

Pioneering research can better reflect the valuable value of scientists. Academician Li Chongyin, a student and dynamic meteorologist in Ye Duzheng, said that Mr. Ye Duzheng was a great scientist and one of the founders of atmospheric science and meteorology in China. "He started a discipline and a field in China. Almost all famous meteorologists in China are his students. " Several research directions in which China occupies a place in international atmospheric science are closely related to Ye Lao's academic contribution.

Ye Duzheng said that when he was studying in the United States, he was ahead of the times because of the training of teachers. From 65438 to 0945, after graduating from the Department of Geography, Geology and Meteorology in Tsinghua University, Ye Duzheng studied at the University of Chicago in the United States, and studied under the meteorologist and oceanographer Rosby.

"You want to ask me, what did you learn in Chicago? I can't say it. If there is, it is a conversation between me and my teacher, Rosby. He told me: the fact is the most important-the fact is the most important. But he is not limited to the present. He looks forward and never talks about things. " Ye Duzheng said.

Mr. Rosby's "foresight" and "foresight" spirit gave Ye Duzheng the courage to break away from convention and keen academic insight.