Sven Plöger - Zieht euch warm an, es wird noch heißer!

In the organizer's words:

Lecture as part of the GO.GRØØN
Sven Plöger - Dress warmly, it's getting hotter!

We can feel how weather patterns are becoming more and more extreme and how human suffering and costs are increasing as a result - whether due to heat, droughts and forest fires or flooding. The ever faster melting of the Arctic ice, the retreat of many glaciers and rapidly rising sea temperatures are also increasingly coming into our focus. Today, we are simply experiencing the things that science predicted around 40 years ago. This makes it clear that we do not have a knowledge problem, but an action problem! What is happening "out there" is simply a physical reality and physics is in no way "interested" in whether we postpone or even ignore the issue because of other crises. Physics simply happens, completely unemotionally.

Sven Plöger's lecture is about clearly determining where we really stand when it comes to global warming - because we no longer have time to wishfully "talk ourselves into a better world" or to state that it is all too late anyway. Neither of these will help us or, above all, future generations in any way. What we need instead is a well-founded optimism about how we can deal with the challenge of climate change. The second part of the lecture will therefore look at the options we still have.

Sven Plöger is not a missionary or ideologue with a raised index finger, but he tries to translate the complex scientific processes into a language that everyone can understand. And despite the seriousness of the topic, he does not do without a pinch of humor in his lectures.

The qualified meteorologist, author, speaker and weather presenter Sven Plöger, born in Bonn in 1967, has been fascinated by the sky, clouds and flying since he was a child. This and his love of physics made him want to become a meteorologist at an early age. He has been in front of the camera for more than 25 years and presents various weather programs for ARD, such as "Wetter vor Acht" or the weather in the Tagesthemen. His documentaries have also attracted particular attention, especially the series "Where our weather comes from" and "How extreme is our weather, Sven Plöger?", further episodes of which are currently being filmed.

Organizer: Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck

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Photo: Sebastian Knoth