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Climate Goggles

-- protect your brain from climate fiction

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Installation

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

git clone [email protected]: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

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