Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change
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WikiProject Climate Change is aimed at improving Wikipedia articles related to climate change and global warming. The intention is that ultimately the major articles for the topic will become featured articles.
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[edit] Goals
- clarify and improve topic structure
- ensure accessibility to the lay reader - with a simplified version and/or appropriate main article/daughter article structuring of scientific detail
- add more scientific detail (and sources) in appropriate articles
- develop some neglected aspects of the topic
- ensure NPOV
[edit] Tasks
- create topic structure for global warming / climate change
- reduce duplication of materials across related articles
- develop material on costs of global warming and mitigation of global warming
- add the {{climate change}} notice to the Talk pages of related articles (see Templates below and list of articles with template added)
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climate change for details and discussion. See also changes in linked articles.
[edit] Requests for comments on pages
This section is for short notifications of pages with problems, or where some attention is needed. If you list a page here, put a longer description on the pages talk page.
- Can someone look at Abrupt climate change. I've made minor changes (doing a current case study on it) but it needs more attention really. Good sources avaialable - noaa.gov with relevant search. Thanks.St91 22:50, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- New article on Aviation and climate change - please look in and comment. Normalmouth 08:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
- New research, please read!(better research than NASA ever did) http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Exploding_Stars_Influence_Climate_Of_Earth_999.html
- should minor effects, like the increase of rain in heavily populated areas,[1] be included? I think these small effects are relevant because they build the case that humans can cause very noticeable climactic changes (like the weekend rain effect referenced above, and here[1]).JDowning 18:22, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
- should eustasy be merged into sea level or a related article (see Talk:Eustasy)?
- Global warming potential looks like a possible subsection of greenhouse gas
- solar variation / solar variation theory need merging
- Atmospheric window - related to radiative forcing and/or greenhouse gas and/or global warming potential? Needs linking properly, if not merging
- Should the section on Mitigating the effects of global warming (in Mitigation of global warming) be separated (yet) into Adaptation to global warming?
- Climate forcing has had a troubled history. See its talk for details. Although it had an impressive TOC it had very little content. Its probably happier as a redirect to radiative forcing which is what I've been bold and finally got around to doing. Hope thats OK. William M. Connolley 18:44:35, 2005-07-30 (UTC).
- That's progress - but I see a similar case for merging radiative forcing into solar variation. Alternatively, if it isn't to be merged, I would suggest cutting it down to the IPCC definition and alternatives, and making it a clear daughter article of solar variation. (currently it's not even linked) Rd232 20:27, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
- RF definitely shouldnt be merged into sol var (I will defend that one to the death... :-). RF started as the IPCC defn and I think misc skeptics added the other stuff, which I'd be happy to lose. William M. Connolley 10:35:25, 2005-07-31 (UTC).
- Fine, but then let's tighten that article's focus and link it properly. Rd232 12:41, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
- There's a Category:Climate forcing. Do we need to do anything with that? Rd232 17:18, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
- RF definitely shouldnt be merged into sol var (I will defend that one to the death... :-). RF started as the IPCC defn and I think misc skeptics added the other stuff, which I'd be happy to lose. William M. Connolley 10:35:25, 2005-07-31 (UTC).
All pages should disclaim that the information contained within is only theory and not fact
- Someone might want to take a look at An Inconvenient Truth. Jkelly 00:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
- Population Control the effect of an increasing population (consumers of energy)on the long term problem
[edit] Request for review of article on "Adaptation to global warming
Well, I was "bold" and extracted the "adaptation" text from the Mitigation of global warming article into a new article Adaptation to global warming. Within minutes, the new article was put up as a candidate for deletion on the grounds that it was a "how-to" article which violated WP:NOT or that it was original research which vilated WP:NOR. Other people said that it was not encyclopedic.
I have addressed these issues by expanding the article significantly and provided references to sources. Hopefully, this will convince those who voted for deletion to change their minds.
Just in case it doesn't, would you take a look at the Adaptation to global warming article and then vote to keep or delete the article?
If the vote is to delete the article then I will bring much of that text back into the Mitigation of global warming article which will make it longer and harder to read (which is why I created the new article in the first place).
Thanks.
Richard 05:57, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Inline links vs footnote3
I'd like to draw peoples attention to a slow dispute I'm having with our old friend SEW on Solar variation and ice core over the use of inline links versus his pet "footnote" project (there was a brief fight over at Medieval Warm Period which is now an ugly compromise). At one point DF disliked them enough to revert them out, but has gone quiet recently.
My view is that they are bad for the reader (2 clicks not one) and bad for the writer (a far more complex scheme than just adding in a link; if you *do* add an inline link they all require a cumbersome renumbering) & I'd like to get them out, and certainly stop them creeping in any further. But I seek your opinions...
William M. Connolley 19:00, 16 October 2005 (UTC).
- Footnote3 is (thankfully) now officially deprecated - see Footnotes. Elvey 23:19, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Climate change/global warming structure
I propose the following issues and possible solution:
- "Global warming" can mean (a) recent anthropogenic climate change or (b) the generic phenomenon of planet-wide increase in average temperature
- "Climate change" can mean (a) recent anthropogenic climate change or (b) the generic phenomenon of global climate change or (c) the even more generic phenomenon of global, regional or local climate change
- "Climate forcing" means essentially any factors which affect climate
Currently, we have climate change for generic global climate change and global warming for recent anthropogenic. Climate forcing I'd proposed to get rid of because contentwise it duplicated climate change; it was redirected to radiative forcing, which was objected to and reversed. Climate is not much more than a definition.
So, how about
- Merging climate forcing into climate, as factors affecting climate (meaning 3 and 2c)
- Keeping climate change as essentially "global climate change" (meaning 2b)
- Keeping global warming as essentially "recent anthropogenic climate change" (meaning 1a/2a).
- The distinction between meanings 1(b) and 2(b) isn't terribly clear in practice, since global changes in average temperatures don't occur in isolation from other climate changes, so we can ignore meaning 1(b), or maybe add a note on the GW page.
The argument for separating recent CC/GW and long-term/generic CC is that many of the long-term factors don't apply to the debate on recent CC. Though I could imagine a page that merges it all into one working too. Rd232 18:28, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- I'm generally in favour of this (my dislike of the climate forcing page is longstanding; I did attempt to merge it but it has essentially no valuable content IMHO). The question of GW is a bit tricky: I think everyone coming to it wille xpect it to be about the current warming. To put that into context, mention of the last 1000/2000 y is needed. Whether the (currently brief? I haven't looked in a while) mentions of previous "GW"'s is useful is rather moot... perhaps they should go into the cl ch page. OTOH (having now looked) the section is brief and poss useful. William M. Connolley 21:57:38, 2005-08-23 (UTC).
- No objections. Dragons flight 04:22, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Terminology
I think there are two issues here. One is "Climate Change". The other is "Anthropogenic Global Warming" as a type of climate change.
I'm sure this brings into play the idea of comparing us measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere one place to ice core samples in a different place. Somehow.
However, the climate can change for a lot of reasons. Asteriods, sunspots, tilt of the Earth, distance from the sun, etc. "Global Warming" is kinda bogus as a title, although popular. Does the entire globe warm? Or is it most of it? The poles? The oceans? The majority of the earth? Europe? Thailand?
The climate always changes, isn't this issue about the "bad things" that might happen because of how humans most probably cause the climate to change one way or another? Sln3412 00:24, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Topic structure
See also: Glossary of climate change, Category:Climate change, changes in articles linked from project template
Current topic structure:
[edit] Global warming
- Overview
- Warming of the Earth
- Temperature record
- various temperature records
- Temperature record
- Causes
- Models
- Issues
- Ozone depletion
- global dimming
- prehuman warming
- Public controversy (Politics of global warming)
- Effects
- Mitigating and adapting to global warming
- External links
- by the bucket
[edit] Climate change
- Climate change factors
- Internal
- Glaciation
- Ocean variability
- El Niño-Southern Oscillation
- External
- plate tectonics
- Solar variability
- Orbital variations (Milankovitch cycles)
- Volcanism
- Greenhouse gases
- Human influences
- Fossil fuels
- Land use
- Internal
- Interplay of factors
- Historical examples
- Climate of the deep past
- Climate of the last 500 million years
- Climate of recent glaciations
- Recent climate
[edit] Changes made
mergedredirected without merging climate forcingintoto radiative forcing
- Reverted back to separate articles. Loss of a lot of information (and potential information) which is not available (or would not be appropriate) on the radiative forcing page.
- So how about merging with climate change, as originally proposed?
- redirected global warming period to global warming
- redirected surface air temperature to temperature measurement
- made Category:History of climate a subcategory of climate change, and moved some articles into the subcat
- sociological considerations about greenhouse gases edited and renamed Individual action against global warming.
[edit] Templates
| What to type | What it makes | What it's for | ||
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| {{climate change}} Talk |
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The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been or should be edited as part of this Wikiproject. |
[edit] Contributors
- Rd232
- Dragons flight
- William M. Connolley
- Carwil
- Chriswaterguy - mainly edit on international development issues, starting to look at climate change.
- Hardern
- Alex 15:23, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] References
- ^ Cerveny, R. S., and R. C. Balling. Weekly cycles of air pollutants, precipitation and tropical cyclones in the coastal NW Atlantic region. Nature. 394, 561-563.
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[edit] Pages needing attention
[edit] Meteorology and Weather
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