Global problems (Global warming) - our grandparents winters - pupils were compared winters in the past and the present and discussed differences

1. Let's talkabout climate
change….
Primary school Podmurvice
Rijeka, Croatia

2. LEONARDO DICAPRIO'S 2016
OSCAR ACCEPTANCE
SPEECH FOR BEST ACTOR
•Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar
acceptance speech was
certainly one for the record
books. After six previous
Academy Award nominations,
DiCaprio finally joined the ranks
of Oscar winners and took home
the 2016 Oscar for Best Actor in
a Leading Role.

3. • The 41-year-old actor took a moment
to speak about a cause that's very
close to his heart: environmentalism
and climate change.
• And lastly I just want to say this:
"Making The Revenant was about
man's relationship to the natural
world. A world that we collectively
felt in 2015 as the hottest year in
recorded history. Our production
needed to move to the southern tip
of this planet just to be able to find
snow.
Revenant

4. Climate change is real, it is
happening right now.
It is the most urgent threat
facing our entire species,
and we need to work
collectively together and stop
procrastinating.

5. Climate changes
We need to support leaders around the world who do
not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of
humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for
the billions and billions of underprivileged people out
there who would be most affected by this. For our
children’s children, and for those people out there
whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of
greed. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight.
Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take
tonight for granted. Thank you so very much."

6. THE TOPIC OF TODAY'S MEETING :
Weatherbefore – weathertoday, Climate change
• WE WILL TRY TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ON HOW THE
WEATHER WAS ONCE?
• WERE THERE CLEAR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SEASONS?
• HOW WAS WINTER BEFORE?
• DID WE USED TO HAVE MORE SNOW IN CROATIA?
• HOW DID THE CITY LOOK LIKE DURING THE WINTER?
• DID YOU HAVE ELECTRICITY, WATER, FOOD?
• HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO GO TO THE STORE?
• WHAT WAS THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED?

7. Ourrespondents were grandparents and
retirees of ourschool
•Barica Jakupec, retired teacher of Chemistry
•Mirjana Nadalin, retired teacher of Croatian language
•Ivan Misija, retired Gym teacher

8. 04/04/16
Memories of Barica Jakupec, a retired
teacherof chemistry of ourschool
• We are witnessing today the
climate change which is the
result of our human activities.
• There are no more visible
season changes like before
when it was clear is it winter,
spring, summer or fall.
• But I remember that even in my
younger days there were
deviations and surprises from
nature.

9. 04/04/16
Half of April, Late Seventies (1978 or1979
years)
It was a beautiful spring morning.
I wore a light green coat
and black spring shoes and came to
school extremely happy.
• Sun disappeared during my lecture
hours, sky turned grey
and heavy snow began to fall.
Flakes were big. They reminded me of
the large white tissues.
The children were enthusiastic and
could not wait to get outside ...

10. 04/04/16
• Traffic in the city was difficult. City buses did not drive.
• Former teacher of geography Marija Zic and I decided
to walk despite the unsuitable clothes and shoes. Even
thought we stumbled and
fell all the way, we succeed to get to the house.
• We were wet and almost frozen Stormy wind came with
snow. It carried everything. Even plastic blinds from the
window which children later used as sledges.

11. 04/04/16
• The next day we also
walked to the school. We
had an ecological project
instead of a lecture.
• Students and teachers
happily cleaned the snow
from laurel and other
plants in order to prevent
damage to trees and
shrubs under the weight of
snow.
• Students were cheerful
because they were not in
the class. They cleaned
the snow, played with
snowballs and enjoyed in
the huge amounts of snow.
• I feel nostalgic for those
times when people spend
more time in the nature
and for the nature ...

12. 04/04/16
Mirjana Nadalin, retired teacherof Croatian
language: Anecdotes fromcolderand older
times
• On May 1, 1960 , storm carried a fist-sized stones
from metal roofs and woodsheds. Everyone was
hiding in the house because it was dangerous
outside.
• On 15th June 1980, the storm carried away the
cars and caravans from the bridge which connects
Rijeka with island Krk. After that event , they have
decided to close the bridge when the storm occurs.
• In 1964, high school students did not have any
classes due to snow so they sledged from school
to Torpedo Factory.

13. 04/04/16
But the winterof 1978,
I will neverforget…
• Deep snow fell. A young man came to propose his
girlfriend. He came by bus to Pecine- eastern part of
Rijeka. But he could not return because the buses were
not driving due to the huge snow. He was not worried
about the weather. He kept walking through the deep
snow for hours. He was happy anyway because she said
"Yes."
• It was my husband, of course. I am always glad to talk
about those lovely colder days.

14. Ivan Misija, retired
Gymteacher
• It was the winter of 1963. I was twenty
years old and I had lived and studied in
Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• I came by bicycle to my first collage
exam. As I forgot the index in which my
professor had to write in my first grade, I
had to return home, which was about a
mile away.
• The temperature was about -23˚C.
• It was so cold that I had to get off the bike
several times and run past her to get
warm.
04/04/16

15. 04/04/16
• I was wearing warm clothes but it did not help at all. It was
too cold.
• I can say that there is no such frizzy weather during the winter
anymore in our country. It used to be -20 ° C for more than
one month back then.
• We loved to skate on an ordinary road which was frozen and
compressed by snow.
• We would skate at night because we could not see each other
so we were not ashamed of falling ...
• We had such a great time...

16. 04/04/16
40 years ago : 52 centimetres of snow in
Rijeka

17. 04/04/16
Did you know that just before spring of 1976
Rijeka was covered with half a meterof
snow ?
On 9th March 1976 "Snow has once again surprised
the citizens of Rijeka! Today, it started to snow on
blossoming trees. The thermometer is about zero."

18. 04/04/16
The city stopped that day - thousands of people did not
come to theirworkplaces, public transport did not
drive, ambulance and stores did not work. There
was a lot of dissatisfaction provoked by the fact of
not cleaning snow properly. Residents blamed
responsible fornot organising the cleaning of snow
effectively.

19. 04/04/16
What would we do today if it snows so much that we need to stay in the
house with no signal on cell phone and no Internet? Maybe we
would read ???