The online lecture, delivered by Professor Roberto Buizza (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa), is part of the Opening Plenary Session of the Circle U. Climate Day – Solutions for Climate Change in Inland and Vulnerable Areas, organised by the University of Pisa at the Certosa di Calci on April 22. It will address the accelerating pace of global warming and the resulting increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, as highlighted by recent record-breaking years.
The lecture will examine the link between anthropogenic climate change and extreme phenomena such as heavy precipitation, temperature extremes, and windstorms, introduce the concept of a digital twin of the Earth system and its future climate projections, and conclude by emphasising the urgent need to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, noting that decarbonisation can also contribute to reducing global conflicts, as recognised by the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC and US Vice-President Al Gore.
Roberto Buizza
Roberto Buizza is full Professor in Physics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) and honorary research Fellow at The Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment of Imperial College (London). In 2022-2023, he served as Scientific Attaché at the Embassy of Italy in the United Kingdom.
He is an expert in numerical weather prediction, Earth-system modelling, climate science, ensemble methods and predictability, and since 2020 has been included in the Stanford University list of the top 2% scientists in atmospheric physics and meteorology.
