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On Feb 21-22 2020, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will be hosting an editathon in Washington, DC with a focus on climate change. Experts from NASEM will participate in the editathon, which will also be open to the public. Wikipedians Clayoquot, phoebe, and Sadads connected with a NASEM staff member at WikiConference North America and are working with them on a strategy for the content of the editathon.

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Agenda[edit]

See Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Climate at the National Academies Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Priority themes[edit]

NASEM's top priority is to use the editathon to incorporate information from the following reports into Wikipedia:

  1. Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda (2019). This seems to be their top priority.
  2. Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change (2016)

The IPCC's 2018 Global Warming of 1.5°C report is another excellent source to complement the above NASEM reports.

Things to do at the Feb NASEM editathon[edit]

  • Add relevant NASEM reports as a source for appropriate statements to the articles identified below. Double check that information in the article matches what the NASEM reports state!
  • choose an article from the list below and work on the lede section - does the lead briefly summarize the rest of the article? Does it have good grammar and is it readable?
  • analyze articles by reading them carefully (or going through them in group discussion). Are there sections that don't make sense to you (as an expert or a layperson?) Are there parts that don't have citations or are outdated? Identify these and make notes to put on the talk page.
  • Specific articles:
  • work through carbon sequestration and carbon sink and "deduplicate" them by making sure they are not redundant, each article explains how the topic is different from the other, and improve sourcing
  • We could have an article on Climate change mitigation research, outlining the major areas of current research, proposed research, how much has been invested (very little) and by who, points of view on how much should be invested and by whom, and the benefits of research. This would need a variety of sources in order to cover sustainable energy technologies in addition to NETs. We could devote some editathon time to brainstorming around what would be good sources for this article.

Very broad topics[edit]

Topic Things to assess Specific to-dos sources / NAS report Priority for improvement av pageviews / enwp / day wikidata QID who is working on it
Global warming Assess current coverage of NETs in this article. Is it correct? Is the weight appropriate?


Add more content on effects and mitigation from the IPCC.

CO2 removal is described under the heading of Climate engineering, and should probably be reworded. The article seems to already cover extreme weather attribution fairly well. NAS-Neg

IPCC-1.5

Top for NETs? 14,918
Climate change mitigation Assess current coverage of NETs in this article. Is it correct? Is the weight appropriate? IPCC 1.5

NAS-Neg

592

Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration (NAS-Neg)[edit]

Broad topics[edit]

Topic Things to assess Specific to-dos sources / NAS report Priority for improvement av pageviews / enwp / day wikidata QID who is working on it
Agriculture Ensure carbon sequestration practices are covered well NAS-Neg

IPCC

top? 3,599
Sustainable agriculture Ensure carbon sequestration practices are covered well NAS-Neg 791
Carbon sequestration Needs thorough review, and better sourcing Currently the article says tree-planting and forest restoration could sequester 160 - 205 GtCO2, whereas the NASEM report uses the range of 2.7 - 17.9 GtCO2. The article should include all the various estimates, and explain why the range is so large. NAS-Neg top? 665
Carbon sink Needs fact-checking. A lot of content is redundant with Carbon sequestration and should be moved there or deleted. NAS-Neg 334
Carbon dioxide removal (Negative emissions technologies currently redirects here) Should this page be merged with Carbon sequestration to make a single Carbon dioxide removal and sequestration page?

Does it make sense for one article to cover "artificial" methods and the other to cover "natural" methods?

Also consider merging with CCS and climate change mitigation NAS-Neg

IPCC 1.5

top? 317
Climate engineering This, and several other articles, classify all negative emissions technologies as "climate engineering". According to the NASEM report, this is an error that should be corrected. NAS-Neg top? 431
Biosequestration NAS-Neg 52
Sustainable energy Improve coverage of BCCS and CCS NAS-Neg top? 4000

Mid-level topics[edit]

Topic Things to assess Specific to-dos sources / NAS report Priority for improvement av pageviews / enwp / day wikidata QID who is working on it
Blue carbon review for accuracy; rewrite lede section add a specific section about climate change impacts; rewrite lede to be less jargony and more concise, and add some info from "decline" section to lede"; condense sedimentation section NAS-Neg 59
Wetland#Wetlands_and_climate_change all info present? what about impacts of climate change on wetlands (like drying?) add in some information to make this more digestable, eg comparison of wetlands to forests etc in carbon sink. Try to de-jargonify. NAS-Neg top? 1428
Wetland restoration currently a redirect to Wetland#Restoration NAS-Neg
Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) add citations; fix up technology section; expand policy sections NAS-Neg 150
Carbon capture and storage update all sections; compare with article above; review for accuracy cut excessive detail under Carbon capture and utilization and move to that article NAS-Neg top? 836
Biomass NAS-Neg 1200
Bioenergy NAS-Neg 176
Biofuel NAS-Neg 999
Direct air capture NAS-Neg 179
Climate change and agriculture NAS-Neg 591
Regenerative agriculture NAS-Neg 292
Carbon farming review for accuracy, consider renaming or merging. This seems to be our main article on the issue of carbon sequestration in agriculture. NAS-Neg 46
Enhanced weathering NAS-Neg 46
Reforestation#For_climate_change_mitigation NAS-Neg 376
Afforestation NAS-Neg 351
Sustainable forest management NAS-Neg 185
Climate-smart agriculture NAS-Neg 40
Trillion Tree Campaign Put this into the context of overall mitigation strategy (if we plant a trillion trees, do we get to keep burning coal at current rates?), talk about feasibility and land use. NAS-Neg Top? 580

Narrow topics[edit]

Extended content
Topic Things to assess Specific to-dos sources / NAS report scope av pageviews / enwp / day wikidata QID who is working on it
Tidal marsh add info about climate change effects, link to relevant articles NAS-Neg narrow
Seagrass add info about climate change effects, link to relevant articles NAS-Neg narrow
Biochar work could be done to expand this article's relationship to climate change NAS-Neg narrow
Petroleum reservoir no coverage of the use of these reservoirs for carbon storage NAS-Neg narrow
Ultramafic rock no discussion of the use of these minerals for CO2 mineralization NAS-Neg narrow
Serpentinite one of the more common rock types for CO2 mineralization NAS-Neg narrow
Wollastonite barely mentioned as a carbon mineralization topic NAS-Neg narrow
Municipal solid waste No mentions of CO2 impacts of waste: (pg 158) NAS-Neg narrow
Construction waste No mentions of CO2 impacts of waste: (pg 158) NAS-Neg narrow
wastewater No mentions of CO2 impacts of waste: (pg 158) NAS-Neg narrow
Agricultural waste currently a redirect to Agricultural wastewater (pg 155) NAS-Neg narrow
Energy crop article needs a lot of work NAS-Neg narrow
Marginal land limited discussion of potential use for afforestation and carbon capture (118) NAS-Neg narrow
Grassland little to no discussion of use in carbon capture. NAS-Neg narrow
Grazing NAS-Neg narrow
Slash-and-char NAS-Neg narrow
No-till farming NAS-Neg narrow

Very narrow topics[edit]

Extended content
Topic Things to assess Specific to-dos sources / NAS report scope av pageviews / enwp / day wikidata QID who is working on it
Coastal Change Analysis Program NAS-Neg very narrow
American Carbon Registry NAS-Neg very narrow
Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group NAS-Neg very narrow
cement kiln dust NAS-Neg very narrow
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System NAS-Neg very narrow
National Ecological Observatory Network needs work to be expanded NAS-Neg very narrow
Pulverized coal-fired boiler under developed article, and no discussion of environmental impact described NAS-Neg very narrow
Verified Carbon Standard needs to be expanded NAS-Neg very narrow
Global Thermostat NAS-Neg very narrow
Climeworks NAS-Neg very narrow
Low-carbon economy probably lots of ways to improve this in the coverage of the article. Challenging. NAS-Neg broad
Carbon mineralization now redirects to Enhanced weathering, but maybe should be a standalone article to encompass enhanced weathering and carbon utilization NAS-Neg mid
Geologic sequestration (Geosequestration redirects to Carbon sink - is this right?) NAS-Neg mid

Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change[edit]


Topic Things to assess Specific to-dos sources / NAS report Priority av pageviews / enwp / day wikidata QID who is working on it
Extreme weather Needs a lot of work. Seems to have a climate-skeptic slant. NAS-Attr 290
Effects of global warming Check accuracy, expand, make sure sources are up to date NAS-Attr

IPCC 1.5

top? 2475
Climate change and ecosystems Check accuracy, expand, make sure sources are up to date
Example of a questionable statement: "In 2019 unusual wildfires in Australia caused by climate change and abandon of indigenous methods to prevent wildfires resulted in heavy damage to forests, including the koala population."
 NAS-Attr 109
Create the article Extreme weather attribution to climate change Top?
Summary statements on extreme weather attribution to climate change Write a one-sentence summary and a one-paragraph summary to add to articles on specific weather events Top?
Heat wave Section on global warming makes little sense, is sourced to old documents, and should be completely rewritten 349
Wildfire
  • Add to Climate section
  • Discuss the emissions caused by wildfires
 top? 2015
Tropical cyclone ("Hurricane" redirects here) needs updating top? 1757
Tropical cyclones and climate change needs updating 75
Drought top? 1467
Bushfires in Australia ("bushfire" redirects here) top? 7746
Cold wave 166

Examples of articles about specific events[edit]

See also the most popular articles on tropical cyclones

Other possible articles of interest[edit]

Biographies[edit]

Notable Members, National Academy of Sciences


Issues to discuss[edit]

Training should cover:

  • Adding articles to a watchlist
  • How to find page view statistics for articles

Breakout groups could look for common problems with climate change mitigation articles in Wikipedia:

  • Stuff that's plain wrong
  • Outdated or mediocre-quality sourcing
  • Unnecessary mentions of company names
  • Hype for unproven technologies
  • Written for investors and hobbyists rather than the general public and policymakers
  • For university professors: Best practices for having students write Wikipedia articles as assignments
  • One of the ways experts can really help is in identifying where articles are wrong. We could have a group discussion to look through an article such as carbon sequestration and have people say what's in the article that jumps out at them as being possibly incorrect, unbalanced, trivial, outdated, etc. We could collect all that feedback on the Talk page, and then talk about how to go about removing and replacing content that already exists without feeling or looking like a vandal.
  • This could be followed by breaking out into smaller groups to do a similar critical-analysis discussion of the articles around each NET. E.g. one group to discuss articles on agriculture, one on forestry, one on BCCS, etc.


Things to do before the editathon[edit]

This page is for discussing how information in these reports would fit into Wikipedia. For each report:

  • Identify the relevant target articles
  • Place notifications on the talk pages of affected articles to say they may be worked on during the edit-a-thon, and ask editors to identify issues that could use expert attention
  • Prioritize target articles for maintenance, e.g. merging/splitting and spam removal, before the editathon
  • Make a list of what technologies show up in what articles - prune and merge accordingly so there is less duplication
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