Climate Goggles

-- protect your brain from climate fiction

How to use

Dependencies

• Python 2.7
• Django
• Beautiful soup
• lxml
• SQLite

Installation

Just in case you have no idea how to get going here are the required commands for Ubuntu:

git clone git@github.com:lehmannro/validitychecker.git
sudo apt-get install python python-pip python-dev sqlite3
sudo pip install django
sudo pip install beautifulsoup
sudo pip install lxml
cd validitychecker/www/
python manage.py syncdb --noinput
python manage.py runserver

Problem

• It is difficult for normal people to classify the background of scientific statements and what is serious.
• Climate change is a very complex subject with a lot of misinformation circulating.
• This misinformation creates uncertainty.
• Some incorrect information is scattered by climate skeptics, with the aim to sow doubt and ultimately to prevent climate protection.
• Problem definition

Challenges

• Sorting and ranking scientific papers is hard
• Scientific papers are written in technical language
• Few resources provide proper APIs

Solution

• User enters search query
• Lookup on Google Scholar
• Match the authors against ISI
• Compute a score for the authors
• Find easy-to-read resources of the author

User expierience

• The user experience is designed to be simple

• Seamless browser integration with Greasemonkey script

• Available in English and German

• Adaptive Design for smaller screen sizes

Remaining issues

• Register for the ISI Web of Knowledge API and implement the hooks
• Digestible article summaries

Team

Backend

• Robert Lehmann
• Dominik Moritz
• André Rieck
• Thomas Werkmeister

Frontend

• David Owens
• Norman Rzepka

Design

• Milena Glim

Stuff we used

• Google Scholar
• ISI Web Knowledge
• Arvo Font