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Glossary of climate change now exists. Minor fighting on Global climate change. The consensus paper in Science. Coming soon: Fu and Johanssen.

Intro

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I intend this page a a guide to me (and others) to the structure of the various pages under which climate change, global warming, etc etc appear; and what topics appear in what pages. This in an effort to avoid re-discussing the same things in different places. Its in my userspace, at least for now, because I'm unsure where else it should fit. Perhaps you know better.

Unlike some of my other user pages, you should feel free to edit this one, sanely only of course...

General climate change

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  • Global Warming - is an increase over time of the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans. It is generally used to describe the temperature rise over the past century or so, and the effects of humans on the temperature. The more neutral term climate change is usually used to describe previous natural variations. The term may be used to describe theories explaining such an increase or the crisis that many advocates say will arise if no one does anything to prevent such an increase from occurring. (that was the old text before Ed changed it. Sigh. Still I'll leave it here).
  • Climate Change - includes natural and anthro change; on all time scales; contains the discussion of various forcing factors.
  • Kyoto Protocol - mostly politics. Actual cl ch science should be kept off this page.
  • Martian global warming - speculative nonsense. Article has been simultaneously recommended for merge and deletion.

People/Orgs

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  • SEPP - The Science & Environmental Policy Project - very vocal, essentially a one-man-band prject of Singer.
  • CO2science - Taking over the baton from SEPP? But no higher quality.

Climate and Meteorology

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  • Climate - only listed here for completeness; not nearly as controversial (or interesting) as climate change. Was mostly about climate classification, but thats now at Köppen climate classification, so Climate is now quite short.

Actual climate/temperature change pages

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  • Temperature record since 1880 - data from NOAA, graph of temperature and an ordered list of the warmest years. Merge with Historical temperature record?

Images

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25 year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Short_Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png

150 year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png

1k year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png

2k year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png

12k year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png

450k year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ice_Age_Temperature.png

5M year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png

65M year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png

500M year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phanerozoic_Climate_Change.png

"Greenhouse" basics

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  • Greenhouse gas - apart from fights over water vapour, not too controversial
  • Sunspot - only here for completeness. Not controversial. nb: "solar activity" redirects to sunspot: don't use both!

Other

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Comments from co-workers

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Dr. C, thanks for creating this page. Rather than editing it with you, I'm going to keep my own (at user:Ed Poor#science for now. But PLEASE point out anything wrong or missing from mine!

On the basis of these two different (and personal) schemas, I'd like to start working on a joint (public) outline. You might take a look at Definitions of global warming. --Uncle Ed 18:36, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

(William M. Connolley 23:20, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)) Hmmm, I never responded to that, I know: mostly because I didn't much like DoGW. Hmmm.
Ed's page has moved to user:Ed Poor/science
Mishlai 00:32, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. This page is now badly out of date and might be better deleted. I'd forgotten it existed :-) William M. Connolley 22:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I found it useful. I think you should update instead. Mishlai 02:34, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I might. You may feel free to do so if you like! William M. Connolley 10:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)