25 April 2024, 16:30

The global climate crisis: what can we do about it?

The seminar will focus on the current status of the global climate crisis. Observational data illustrating the evolution of the Earth's climate in recent decades will be presented. The physical aspects of human interferences in the Earth's climate system and the possibilities of stopping further growth of the global surface air temperature by modifying the Earth's energy budget will be discussed, among them the chances for direct control of the solar radiation flux reaching the Earth's surface, as well as potential ways of increasing the Earths’ albedo and methods of changing the long-wave radiation flux emitted by the Earth-atmosphere system. The status of implementation of the Paris Agreement of 2015 r., and the perspectives of maintaining the increase of the global surface air temperature below 2oC until the end of the 21st century will be presented.

prof. dr hab. inż. Kazimierz Różański

is closely associated with the AGH University of Krakow for over fifty years, initially as a student, then as a PhD student and a researcher. It was there that he obtained all his academic degrees and titles.

In the years 1979-1981 he was working at the Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany, as a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, while from 1987 till 1996 he was an employee of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. He held number of positions at the AGH University including Senator, chairman of Senate committees, head of the Department of Applied Nuclear Physics as well as head of the Environmental Physics Group, which he headed for the last twenty years.

The professor's scientific activities focus on issues related to the use of physical methods and tools, including isotope methods, in Earth sciences (geology and hydrogeology, atmospheric physics, climatology and paleoclimatology). Professor is the author of over two hundred publications widely cited in world scientific literature.