Is Climate Change Real?

Unveiling the Evidence, Causes and Solutions through Data Visualization

Group Members: Ayush Manojkumar Lodha and Harishankar Sekhar

Instructor: Professor Shiaofen Fang TA: Ziqian Bi

Chapter 1:

Climate Change:

A Myth?

Arguments from non-believers

• Some Countries are naturally hot because of their positioning on the the globe.

• Some months are naturally hotter than the others. It’s natural

Average Temperature of Countries from last 100 years

Inferences:

• Countries that are nearer to the equator experience higher temperatures than the countries near the pole.
• Legend from -50 to 50 degrees, shows the transition from a cold region(dark blue) to 0 degree (white) to rising hot temperature(dark red).
• This visualization has the dropdown menu and we can select the country which we want to look into. (It will take us there)

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Let’s Merge above two ideas and run a spatio-temporal time series

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Inferences:

• This radial chart clearly shows how we have increased the temperatures of the planet after the industrial revolution in the 1850s
• The post shared by NASA inspired the idea.

Radial Chart of Global Temperature Anomaly

Chapter 2:

Consequences

Flood Risk of different countries

Rise in Temperature

Melting of Snow

Sea Level to Rise

Risk of flood Increases

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Climate Risk of different countries

• Global Climate Risk Index identifies the extent to which countries have been affected by extreme weather events

Inferences:

• The lower the value of this score (towards 0), the higher the risk [darker the color in the globe]
• Asian and African Countries
• Higher the value of this score(towards 200), lower the risk [lighter color]
• European and North American Countries

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Chapter 3:

Cause

Main Cause of Global Warming and Climate Change

Chapter 4:

Conclusion

Developed Nations

Developing Nations

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• Catered the population better in history for long and hence need to cater now also in a better way

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• Started to develop their economies and needed to cater to the population in a better way:
• Urbanization
• Industrialization

Solution

References:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/somnath-ray_earthday-climateaction-usa-activity-7055641773997477888-UXsj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

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• Three largest populous and CO2 emitters are:
• US 🇺🇸
• China 🇨🇳
• India 🇮🇳
• These countries should lead role in green energy and policy making. 🌱

Thanks for your time ⏲️

Here are our Data References and Inspirations: