High-Level Project Summary
Global warming should be recognized when assessing human thermal comfort. It is likely that global warming affects indoor temperature and challenges individuals to achieve thermal comfort and balance. The challenge picked up by us is “How Does Climate Change Affect You” According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2018 report 48 human-induced global warming reached approximately 1°C (range of 0.8°C–1.2°C) above pre-industrial levels in 2017, increasing to 0.2°C per decade. Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate. Global warming of 1.5°C or more is predicted to increase the mean temperature, Urban heat
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Picture This is a warm sunny day on the beach, relaxing in the shade, free of all the displeasures that Earth has to offer. Now imagine being placed in the same environment but with one difference: the atmosphere is 3 degrees hotter. You may think to yourself, "Oh well, 3 degrees isn't much, I'll just keep enjoying my time at the beach." In your day-to-day life, it might not seem significant, but from a global perspective, 3 Degrees of Global Warming would be catastrophic.
So, what is the solution to climate change? On the negative side, it is unavoidable, but on the positive side, we can significantly slow it down. Climate change exacerbates climate hazards and amplify the risk of extreme weather disasters increasing rising sea levels, supercharged storms, higher wind speeds, more intense and prolonged droughts, and wildfire seasons.
Since we belong to coastal areas, a cyclone-prone state can cause up to 5-10 thousand crores Rupees of property damage along with thousands of casualties. Covering up such heavy damage is not at all an easy task.
We already know that rising water and air temperatures cause a pressure difference, which increases the frequency of storms and cyclones. To deal with such a situation, We can collaborate with several individual committees, such as the Red Cross, to validate relief hubs by collaborating with the government to provide funds, supplies, food, water, and rescue forces for evacuation.
We can construct disaster management homes approximately 15 meters above sea level, with each house built within 5 kilometers of the shore, providing a safe haven for people affected by cyclones. The house can be equipped with amenities such as electricity, water, food, first aid, and doctors. Such houses would be critical in saving lives and providing shelter for cyclone victims.
Coming back to Climate Change, there exist numerous solutions, but none are as powerful as the emergence of renewable resources. Renewable energy, in particular, has seen rapid growth. Wind energy has become three times cheaper, solar electricity is now ten times cheaper than coal or any other fossil fuel-powered power plant. However, because of the variability in their power output, wind and solar energy have not yet replaced such existing technologies. If the last decade has taught us anything, it's that progress is being made and those dire scenarios are only predictions, not our fate. Based on current global policies, we will be living in a 3* degree world soon. It is our responsibility to disprove the predictions once again, regardless of how serious and urgent the situation is. To decrease that 3 degrees to two and see where we can go from there.
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Hackathon Journey
We team 'Columbus', members Rudransh, Piyush, Hamza, Ananthakrishnan, are working on the topic 'How climate change affects us' for this hackathon organized by NASA International Space App Challenge 22’ in collaboration with SRM Aarush 22’.
We first came across the hackathon on the unstop website, where we found that it was conducted by SRM Aarush 22' for the SRM university students, but it was largely being conducted by NASA. Hence, we headed to the NASA official website and gathered information regarding the same and got a hang of the idea of the hackathon and four like-minded people came together as a team to work tirelessly and endlessly into bringing solutions to the climate change problem through our video.
Ever since we got to know about this golden opportunity to participate in this hackathon, we have worked round the clock into putting our best inputs forward. We invested a large part of our time in researching and information gathering through videos, various government websites and others across the internet. We collected as much relevant information as possible. For this our team worked day in-day out relentlessly so as to bring the best possible solution. We have come up with the solution in the form of a video, making which was our favorite part of the project.
We used Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Audacity, Adobe Photoshop to make the video. The two day hackathon organized on 1st and 2nd October, took us to work for close to 4 days during which we brainstormed and understood each other's insights and came up with the best of the four minds.
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#climate #nasa #SpaceApps #cyclone #redcross #savinglives #ngo #India #naturaldisaster #climatechange #earth