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I ran this on ship tracks to see the global warming result. It built a toy climate model for cloud forcing: https://ship-tracks-tycoon.netlify.app

For background, in 2020 the International Maritime Organization changed fuel standards globally. The intent was to reduce pollution, which is great for human health. But, it turns out some of that pollution was supporting cloud formation and creating a cooling layer globally. And temperatures started to climb when the pollution was removed.

I haven't looked through how it's doing the calculations yet but this kind of visualization is full of possibilities if done right.

Thanks for making this guide!

Here's the code and publications/sources on Github for anyone to poke through: https://github.com/titojankowski/ship-tracks-tycoon

And since the details of ship tracks are a newer topic for me, I'm curious about Gell-Mann Amnesia. Next I'm going to apply this to a topic I understand well and will report back. Stay tuned! (will be tomorrow, bookmark or reply to this thread)

I wanted to understand how well this process works for a topic I already know.

I made for carbon dioxide removal, which I work on. First shot had most of the visualizations well made. And it was nice to see what I work on in a visual way that I hadn't seen before. I added labels to the warming graph and a removal build out graph too: https://removal-valley.netlify.app (while I saw familiar inputs as the sources, I didn't go through to make sure the numbers are all tied in properly, so that's where I would recommend someone proceed with this draft. But the things that are visualized, and how they're visualized, that's good to go)

I also had it animate the history of focused research organizations (a topic I was looking to learn about). That one is more a history of the space, and after that ends it's a simulation: https://fro-park.netlify.app

All three of these started with the prompts given in the OP and put into Claude. I haven't reviewed the actual numbers underpinning the models yet (nothing jumped out at me though as terribly wrong) so I included a "Draft" tag at the top of the page.

Code for both is on my GitHub: https://github.com/titojankowski/removal-valley https://github.com/titojankowski/fro-park

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