Climate Change is Real

The facts have been presented time and again, year after year, for decades and yet there is still an astounding level of willful ignorance and inaction from the people who should be doing the most to protect us and every other living thing on this planet.

Here are the facts, one more time. 

 

o Tell us about one decision you made when building the report, for example why did you use certain colors, visuals or features in Power BI?

One decision I had to make was to either have multiple pages, or use bookmarks to create a navigation experience through independent topics. Since I wanted to keep the storyline strong, I did not want too many independent pages that make the experience seem cumbersome. The bookmarks feature was of great help in this case. It kept the story alive and also made navigation easy.

 

o Why were you interested in telling this story?

Why was I interested in telling this story? Because it is something we cannot ignore. Climate Change is a fact that has been known for well over 100 years and yet we want to believe that it is a hoax. Climate Change is our biggest environmental problem and if we don’t act on it now, it will be too late. It is not a far-off problem. It is happening right here, it is happening right now.

 

o Where did you get the data? Is there anything not explained in the report about the data that the reader should be aware of?

This data has been taken from various websites (Listed below). Most of the data has been taken from government websites and the report does justice to all the data present. Some data manipulations may have been made (Like only considering a subset of the main dataset etc.)

 

Data sources:

 

 

Data	Data source URL
Temp anomaly	https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Extinction	http://cmsdocs.s3.amazonaws.com/summarystats/2017-3_Summary_Stats_Page_Documents/2017_3_RL_Stats_Table_1.pdf
avg temp	https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/data/current/time_series/HadCRUT.4.6.0.0.annual_ns_avg_smooth.txt
co2 emissions	https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/
disasters	https://ourworldindata.org/natural-catastrophes/
sealevel	https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-08/sea-level_fig-1.csv
forest	https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.K2?end=2015&start=1990
ppl disasters	https://ourworldindata.org/natural-catastrophes
glaciers	https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-08/glaciers_fig-1.csv
greenhouse gases	https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-08/ghg-concentrations_fig-1.csv

 

I hope this dashboard presents the truth because no matter how much contrarians try to cloak reality, the evidence is not going away.

 

Thank you. 

 

-Ravali

 

 

 

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