Will Bavaria become Italy due to climate change? A little, says climate researcher Annette Menzel – but that’s not good news. A conversation about destructive storms, risky mountain hikes and allergy sufferers who will soon have to suffer even more.
Annette Menzel is one of the country’s most influential climate researchers. She was one of the lead authors of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. The certificate hangs in her office on the Freising campus of the Technical University of Munich. There Menzel researches and teaches on the consequences of climate change. During the interview, a cell phone alarm suddenly goes off – it’s warning day. How fitting.