Climalearn

An attempt to educate the general population on the devastating effects of climate change and help them understand what they can do to help stop these effects.

Introduction

Climate change is a major issue in the world today. It is a global issue and affects everyone. Over the past few years, the world has started to experience a huge increase in temperature, and the effects of this increase are becoming more and more severe. The effects of climate change are not just the temperature, but also sea levels rising, and other environmental changes. The main reason for changes rising in severity is because the general population is not aware of the effects of climate change, or they choose to not do anything about it.

Objective

The objective of this project is to educate the general population on the devastating effects of climate change and help them understand what they can do to help stop these effects. To do this, Climalearn uses data from many government websites to make information available and easy to understand to everyone.

Resources

To make Climalearn as trustworthy as possible, I tried making all of my sources as trustworthy as possible as well. I have used the following resources to help me make this project:

• NASA's NEX-DCP30 dataset from the Amazon Sustainibility Initiative (ASDI) - Air temperature predictions until Dec 2099
• NOAA's Sea Level trends - Embedded sea level trends map
• NOAA's Ocean Service - Source for a fact
• NASA's ECCO project - Displaying the amount of heat in the ocean
• YouTube video of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse - External video linked to help explain what a zettajoule is
• NIDIS/NOAA Drought Monitor - Drought monitor data
• Google Maps Public Transit - Showing an embed of public transit directions from one location to another
• Project Sunroof by Google - Showing estimates of carbon emission savings with solar panels
• The USDA's internal Farmer's Markets API - Showing local farmers markets near the user
• The WorldEnvironmentDay's Guide for a Better Planet - External page linked

Getting Started

REQUIREMENTS:

• Python 3.x, Pip

• 60 GB of free space on your computer

• Git

• If you are on a UNIX based system like macOS or a Linux distro, you can use the default terminal that came with your system.

• If you are on Windows, open the Git bash application

• Run the following commands

git clone https://github.com/CoolCoderSJ/Climalearn.git
cd Climalearn
sh setup.sh
python main.py

This should download the project files, install the necessary python packages, download all of the necessary files, download the project files, and run the flask server.