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\section{Design Phase}    \subsection{Design Objectives}  The main objective of this project is to prove that climate change does exist, and show that increased concentrations of carbon dioxide does increase the temperature of Earth. The increase in temperatures will be proven using temperature anomaly data of the ocean. With these two data sets in mind, the actual effect on the climate change will be shown using wildfire data. The correlation between the increase in carbon dioxide and the ocean temperature anomalies will follow along the same trend line as the severity of wildfires.  A secondary objective is to show this correlation using data from more recent sources. It is important for the purposes of this project to stick to data that is less than 150 years old. This is to show that the climate change is modern occurrence, rather than a long term trend.  \subsection{Consideration of Alternative Approaches}  The data used in this project is more modern compared to the scope of time that climate change occurs over. The oldest data set used dates back to the late 1800s. This is because the data used consists of modern recordings of the various data types. An alternative to this would be exploring data in ice-cores. Data in ice cores goes back thousands of years, and could possibly show a larger picture of the climate cycle. This approach was not used because one of the main objectives is to show the correlation is modern trend.  This project also had a lot of options in terms of looking at data of the responding variables to the increase in carbon dioxide. Rather than use wildfires as the indication of climate change, the project could have been based around the melting of ice sheets, ocean level rise, or even reduced snowfall in the mountains. Wildfire severity was chosen because it has more abstract application, and because it should increase as the climate gets warmer and drier.  \section{Implementation Phase}   \subsection{Data Acquisition}