Understanding Climate Change by Visualising Environmental Data
Climate change is a change in the usual weather found in a place. It is being accelerated by the inventions of humans for activities like transportation and generating power. Climate change is an important and ongoing area of research, but the general public lacks the tools to understand how the environment is changing. Visualisation is a method of displaying data that helps people understand patterns in the data. Without such tools to increase understanding of climate change, the public is not fully exposed to the alarming consequences of the issue. Climate change could be irreversible by 2030 without drastic removal of CO2 from the air. Passing this benchmark would result in poverty, droughts, floods and a myriad of other consequences that may be detrimental to the human race. This report details the design, implementation and evaluation of a web application called ClimateVis that can visualise environmental data to increase climate change awareness. The evaluation of ClimateVis suggests it is capable of becoming an effective tool in helping raise climate change awareness.
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