IS428 2016 17T1 Team Valor
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Description of the Problem and Motivation
Recent president candidate of the US, Mr Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax. That is really worrying, especially when current polls are showing that he is having a real chance in winning the election. Our team seeks to validate the climate change's truthfulness by exploring and visualizing ocean, land and weather data. Thus, we hope through this project, we settle the fact once and for all. Moreover, this serves as a tool to raise the awareness and understanding of our mother Earth's health status. How the climate has changed over time, which stage are we in and how many years does Singapore has left to stay above the sea level.
Related Work
Berkeley Earth is a non-profit organization created by Professor Richard Muller, Prof Physics, UCBerkeley that focuses on researching about global warming. Some of their graphic works is as following:
Annual Average Global Temperatures
Series Comparison. Anomalies of the global temperature index of provided by several groups is depicted for the 1980 to present time period.
Comparison of the baseline method with the alternative method.
These graphics depict the change over a long period of time. However, as static, they don't converse the imagination of change and require experts to understand and read these charts. Our team strikes to identify the climate change issues and translate them into interactive analytics graphs and charts for a clearer understanding of the issue. This is so that even a layman can right away tell how the climate has change over time and where the Earth is heading towards.
