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Will we have to change our habits?

Organization(s):Complex of Schools (Comprehensive School Technical School) in Nysa
Country:Poland
Student(s):Agnieszka Tomasiak, Agnieszka Ślimak, Anna Gońska, Artur Misiarz, Jakub Alasiński, Małgorzata Kocierz, Michał Jarek
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Teacher:Jolanta Wawrzyniak-Roszczka
Contributors:dr hab. Krzysztof Markowicz – Professor of Warsaw University, member of the Scientific Board of GLOBE Program in Poland
Report Type(s):International Virtual Science Symposium Report
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Date Submitted:03/31/2017
For the last few years the problem of climate change resulting particularly from the change of certain meteorological constituents has been widely talked about. Increase in weather and climatic anomalies has been observed by our parents, grandparents and us. Record-breaking heat waves, strong winds, violent storms, shorter, snowless and warmer winters are becoming more and more common. During the last 100 years air temperature has risen by around 0,8°C. IPCC 2007 report shows that most of temperature changes observed in recent years have been related to human activities (over 90%). A documentary movie „Before the Flood” (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) tells about human’s impact on environment. It enables us to witness negative effects of climate warming in different parts of our planet. We decided to check how air temperatures in Europe are changing. We picked 3 schools participating in the Globe Program (from Finland, Germany and Estonia), which have been conducting air temperature measurements every day for 10 years, and our school. The aim of our research was to find the answers to the following questions: 1. Are the trends of temperature changes similar in different parts of Europe? 2. Which effects of warming in Europe can be noticed in our environment? 3. Shall we change our habits related to our consumerist lifestyle? 4. Which actions should be undertaken? Our hypothesis: The climate in Europe has been abruptly getting warmer since 1960 Our analysis confirmed that also in Europe global warming is rapidly progressing. We have no doubt concerning the negative changes which occur in natural environment as its result. Awareness of this condition is very disturbing to us.


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Ylliass Destin LAWANI
6 Years Ago
You guys did a very good job of comparing data that gives me a lot of research ideas for students in Africa region where the climate changes effects are very noticeable as you probably know.
Your research justifies that data collected by GLOBE students are very important for scientific research and sincerely I want to say BRAVO !!!
My questions :
1- In your conclusion you talked about your commitment to change the habits that are harmful to the environment (by the way, I loved your "The Drop to the drop" campaign and congratulate you) what kind of support do you get from your parents and communities?
2- In a few years, and considering the conclusions of your research, if you were given the chance to be the mayor or an influential leader of your community, what arrangements would you take to get your citizens to change their bad habits about the environment?
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Student 4 of Jolanta Wawrzyniak-Roszczka Ylliass Destin LAWANI
6 Years Ago
Thank you very much for your comment, which we have received with great pleasure and satisfaction.
1. In our project we direct attention to how vital our lifestyle and our habits are for the environment. And we reached a conclusion that a great deal is said on this subject, but not much done. It is often the case that everyone knows what to do, but we don’t do it. Therefore, we decided that our campaign would focus on changing the habits - ours and of our school friends. We prepared information on the blog http://naszregion-nysa.blogspot.com/2017/03/world-water-day-kampania-kropla-do.html and http://naszregion-nysa.blogspot.com/2017/04/earth-day-2017.html, then we collected declarations: What action will you take for the environmental protection? Our teacher, Mrs. J. Wawrzyniak, helps us, parents strengthen our faith and keep fingers crossed firmly for our success. We are glad that our colleagues see the need of such action and willingly join us. We think that this will strengthen our community, because alone we will change nothing. We want everyone to feel the need to change their habits and realize that their habits influence the environment. We will summarize our campaign in local media.
2. It is a difficult question. As a mayor, I would really like to convince people to take care of our environment every day. I think to encourage people to change their habits, I would have to undertake such actions, which would show how they and their environment would benefit from it. I would concentrate on education and raising environmental awareness. I would take the following steps:
- subsidize the exchange of the heat furnaces based on the bituminous coal for energy-efficient heating systems e.g. gas
- subsidize construction of passive houses
- teach ecological behaviors through trips for children and teenagers to nature reserves or outdoor activities like family picnics
- establishing parks, green squares as a recreation ground
- actions of planting or adopting trees– of monuments of nature – done by children and young people
- cheaper tickets for public transport for car owners
- funding municipal bicycles rental agency and construction of bicycle paths
- propagating the action - at least one day a month without light at night
- promoting energy-saving light bulbs
- reducing the number of plastic bags we use for shopping and replacing them with reusable ones
- large fines for people who burn and do not segregate their rubbish etc.
- a network of containers for sorting rubbish located near housing estates
- establishing bottle and paper banks and offering possibility to exchange paper and glass for products of their recycling, for example toilet paper
Greetings,
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Sarah McCrea
6 Years Ago
You put a lot of work into this report and research and it shows, job well done! It is so powerful to not only look at your own data but reference additional data from other sources/ analyze data from a long data set. I also liked the connection from you research in change in temperature over time to climatic change based on testimonials. I had a few questions:
1) How could you enhance the relationship between the observed environmental data and climate change/How can you show or explain the direct relationship or the cause and effect?
2) If you had more time, how would you extend you research or use what you learned... beyond "The Drop to the Drop"?
Thank you!
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Student 4 of Jolanta Wawrzyniak-Roszczka Sarah McCrea
6 Years Ago - Edited
1)We research local atmosphere, hydrosphere, soil and biosphere beyond measurements for our project about climate changing. Owing to long-term studies we have observed changes in our region, for example winters become milder, springs become warmer and begin earlier, migrating birds come faster than ever. Similar phonemes have been observed in surroundings of students from schools in Estonia and Finland with which we co-operate. They started to appear them in environment when the average of temperatures were increasing. The relationship between these phonemes and the temperature is obvious and that is why we think they are effects of global warming.

2) „The Drop to the Drop” is a campaign, which we organised to raise people awareness about how much drinkable water we waste and also how we can prevent from losing this important resource. If we had more time, we could organise more actions like this, connected with different, worldwide, ecological celebrations. We could try to come to more people, what we could achieve by making for example short performances in local places. As far as possible, we could try to get in touch with different schools abroad and make a cooperation. Next, we could share informations about observed changes in our countries with each other, what would help us make another step to shelter our planet from disaster.
Greetings,
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