Over 27 years ago, Mihai Codrescu was sent by the Autoexport plant in Brasov (Central Romania) in a business trip. From Hungary, he went to Austria and from there to Germany, declaring himself a refugee. A year after, he went to the US and got a waiting job. Today, Codrescu works as a physician with the Space Weather Prediction centre, where predictions on the space weather are made. Codrescu talked about the solar storms, about what the Sun tells us right now and he shared his opinions on global warming in an interview for HotNews.ro with Adrian Novac.

In September 1982, Mihail Codrescu was sent by his employer, Autoexport from Brasov, in Czechoslovakia for business. Using his work passport, which was stamped with visas for all countries, he went to Budapest (Hungary), then passed in Austria and then went to Germany, where he took on the refugee status. Here he received a six months residing pass, which he renewed afterwards for another semester. Because of his passport, he could not get the right to work or financial support. Friends of Romanian origin helped him. The US, Canada and Australia seemed the best places to emigrate. In September 1983 he ended up in New York. But the chances to find an engineer role seemed batter in Boston, so he moved again, where he started working as a waiter. Codrescu enrolled with Boston University in 1985, where he was tested for about a year and got sent to do an MA, despite the fact that he already had an MA diploma from previous studies in Romania. After graduating his MA, he received a PhD grant, which he completed by 1990. He worked first in London, and then he returned to the US to accept a role at the University from Colorado, where he stayed until 2005 for "soft money". In 2005, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) advertised a vacancy and he got the job. He works in a group of 12 researchers f