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Climate Myth Buster with Sources

Paste a climate claim and get a sourced, plain-language response.

Intermediate14h1–2 people16/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Climate Myth Buster with Sources for students and social media users in ~14h with 1–2 people. Stack: RAG + LLM + Vector DB + Next.js.

Why it wins: Fights misinformation with grounded answers.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Climate misinformation spreads faster than corrections.
02 · Solution
Retrieve passages from trusted scientific summaries, have an LLM judge the claim and write a short rebuttal with citations.
03 · Build
  1. 1Index trusted reports
  2. 2Retrieve evidence per claim
  3. 3Generate a cited verdict
  4. 4Create a share card
04 · Demo
Paste a viral claim and show the sourced reply card.

MVP checklist

  • Claim analysis
  • Cited answers
  • Share card
  • Confidence label

Tech stack

TechRole
RAGRetrieval over your docs
LLMLanguage model
Vector DBEmbedding search
Next.jsFrontend + API routes

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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