{"id":20,"date":"2009-12-08T22:51:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zacwitte.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-12-08T22:51:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:51:37","slug":"climate-data-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Climate Data Mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The  problem:<\/strong> people generally have very little perspective of the  actual scale of the contributing components of climate change or the  effects of different proposed measures to stop it. What percentage of  CO2 emissions are a result of city residential electrical consumption vs  agriculture vs vehicles? How much of a difference will legislation X  make in the big picture? When Obama says that the United States will cut  greenhouse gas emission 80% by 2050 what kind of effect does that  actually have? What would happen to the weather in 10 years if everyone  in the world stopped driving tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The solution:<\/strong> Let people build hypothetical  scenarios themselves. Design an interface centered around an attractive  time line graph indicating climate data in all its various forms  including temperature increase,  carbon emissions, and sea level.  Curious users can click on and off different proposed solutions to see  the real overall effect on projected emissions along with dollar cost  over time. Group data in terms of current relevancy such as proposals  being discussed at the climate summit in Copenhagen this week. Include  competing predictions from different agencies and scientific groups to  communicate the level of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Extra credit for building a system to automatically pull in current  data from a variety of sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem: people generally have very little perspective of the actual scale of the contributing components of climate change or the effects of different proposed measures to stop it. What percentage of CO2 emissions are a result of city residential electrical consumption vs agriculture vs vehicles? How much of a difference will legislation X make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacwitte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}