Project Details

The Challenge | Warming Planet, Cool Ideas

Your challenge is to examine existing space and Earth projects and systems and adapt them into specific technologies that help stabilize or improve the Earth’s weather, and/or eliminate processes that cause global warming. Your solution could be a technology, a movement, an idea – let your imagination have no bounds!

Earth Cooler

Design and construction of an app that not only impacts with data on global warming, but also provides support that contributes to the mitigation of greenhouse gases and recommends actions that adapt to life in a changing, more unstable climate.

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Introduction:

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Global warming causes of changes in the frequency and intensity of climatic events. These events generate situations that will require innovative ways to face productive situations and life strategies that will demand new habits in the population.

Earth’s global surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to an analysis by NASA.

Global temperatures in 2018 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.83 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. Globally, 2018's temperatures rank behind those of 2016, 2017 and 2015. The past five years are, collectively, the warmest years in the modern record.

Recent studies cited by Stern (2000) show that 47% of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere depend on individual decisions that people make. (Corraliza, Berenguer, Moreno y Martín, 2003.

Psychosocial intervention programs are required, which include the modification of decisive patterns of social organization, lifestyle in developed societies and human behavior.

There is a substantial difference between the concern for the immediate space where a person lives and the perception of degradation of the planet, because a general measure of environmental concern represents only a fragmentary knowledge of the subject's environmental reality (Gooch, 1995)

Climate change consequences are experienced by the citizens in different ways. Farmers suffer flooding, drought or erosion through lost crop yields or reduced meat or milk production. Urban citizens suffer UV rays on their skin, breathe air with GG, drink water contaminated or lack of water. Temperature elevation causes a higher cost of cooling. Excessive urbanization causes water logging, higher temperatures, and low heat-trapping GG.

Public Institutions dedicate a lot of resources to arrive compromises between countries and corporations to mend 53 % of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. But as 47% of greenhouse gas emissions depend on individual decisions. Individual awareness is the basis of habit modification.

Resources:

The app will integrate the following platforms:

SEPA: http://sepa.inta.gob.ar/productos/

GLAM: Global Agriculture Monitoring http://pekko.geog.umd.edu/glam/argentina/

Google Earth Engine (NDVI, NDWVI): https://explorer.earthengine.google.com/#workspace

Monthly measurements: https://climate.nasa.gov/

Nasa´s Goddard Institute for Space Studies: https://climate.nasa.gov/

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (Airs): https://climate.nasa.gov/

The app´s code is in the following link: https://github.com/IngAgrMablanco/Team-Bio-challenge/blob/master/apk.rar . The app has a fantasy “Climate” name in the code, the right name is “Earth Cooler”

All the resources and the whole text, presentation and the app is in Earth cooler