Climate Explorer: klara wanelik

I have always been fascinated by the science of climate change and it has become a real passion in the last couple of years. I really want to do my bit and make a difference! I hope to become a climate scientist when I am older but for now I am just trying to raise awareness of climate change at my high school (the Cherwell School). I'm also trying to make it more energy efficient an eco-friendly.

Screening of An Inconvenient Truth

We had a screening of An Inconvenient Truth at my school (The Cherwell School) on Monday afternoon (for years 9,10 and 12). It went really well! Everyone seemed really enthused and motivated after watching the film and we had lots of questions and a pretty good discussion going at the end. I hope to follow this through asap and get more people at my school really involved in the climate challenge!!! :)

work experience 2

Hello again. Today is my last day at climatexchange. So much has happened this week: 1) The interviews with my friends went really well. It was really great finding out what they thought about climate change. They had some really interesting opinions to share and I learnt a lot from them. I have already edited the interviews and put them together to make a short 5 minute movie (which I am quite proud of since I have never used movie maker in my life!). As soon as I get permission from all of my friends, I will upload the video on youtube and post a link to it on my page so you can take a look. 2) On Wednesday I interviewed Dr Tina Fawcett who is involved with the personal carbon allowances scheme. It sounds like a very realistic way of reducing emissions. I will be posting up the transcript asap. 3) Yesterday, I was editing an interview with Dr Chris West from the UK Climate Impacts Programme. Jo interviewed him on camera and I just did a bit of editing to make a short movie of the interview. I have already posted it on youtube so take a look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmoCFc_0yyQ. Oh and please give me some feedback because I really am new to this whole movie maker business. Anyway, I think he really has some fascinating stuff to say about communicating and tackling climate change in different ways. I actually did some work at UKCIP last summer putting together a database of all the water projects I could find concerning climate change. It was a really amazing experience and I got to know a lot about UKCIP and how it works. I think the impacts and adaptation approach is really key to the climate struggle. Please take a look at their website at: http://www.ukcip.org.uk/. There are a lot of really good resources up on there. My water database should be up there somewhere I think. 4) I have arranged a meeting with my Headmistress for Monday to discuss screening An Inconvenient Truth at my school along with a talk/discussion. Jo, Ian, and I also had a massive brainwave at lunch to organise a climate fest for all the schools in Oxfordshire to inspire creative ideas and find out what solutions and visions to climate change our schools have. So, I will be running that by my head on Monday as well. I will keep you updated on any developments. 5) I will be interviewing Dr Myles Allen (who leads the climateprediction.net experiment) next week via E-mail which should be really interesting. I will upload the interview onto the website asap so you can take a look. Please do go on the climateprediction website: http://climateprediction.net/ and download the model. It is really fascinating to watch and also just to be part of. 6) So that is it. I have had a really great time here at ClimateX and hope to stay in close contact when I go back to school!

work experience

Hello everyone. I am currently doing work experience at climatexchange which has been really fun so far. Today, I am going to interview some of my friends to find out what they think about climate change and the future of Oxfordshire. I will be filming it all on camera so I should be able to share it with all of you quite soon. I am also organising a few screenings of An Inconvenient Truth at my school (the Cherwell School) for parents, students and teachers. I also hope to get in a few speakers for a debate/question and answer session after the film to motivate the Cherwell community to stand up to the climate challenge! With any luck I will be interviewing some climate researchers and maybe even some more prominent inhabitants of Oxfordshire to find out about their visions of Oxfordshire rising to the climate challenge. I will keep you updated! I will also put all my favourite climate change links up on my page including the best climate change videos, photos, articles, games, websites, educational resources etc. so look out for that!

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