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

Climate at the National Academies Wikipedia Edit-a-thon               @WikimediaDC

This is a two-day event. Wikipedia training will be provided from 11AM-12PM on both Friday and Saturday. You are welcome to register for one or both days. If planning to attend on both days, please complete two separate transactions, i.e. register once for Friday and once for Saturday.

Interested in learning more about the latest in climate science and helping improve or create Wikipedia articles about climate change and women in science? Join us for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Friday, February 21 and/or Saturday, February 22!

Get up to speed on the science by hearing directly from experts on negative emissions technologies and attribution of extreme weather events, and learn more about the resources available at the National Academies. All are invited to participate in this climate change Edit-a-thon hosted by the National Academies, with support from Wikimedia DC. No experience necessary! A Wikipedia editor training will also be provided both days. Photo ID and laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

What

This is a two-day event. It is free and open to the public.

• Registration is required. You are welcome to register for one or both days. If planning to attend on both days, please complete two separate transactions, i.e. register once for Friday and once for Saturday.
• Photo ID is required.
• Please bring your own laptop. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.
• Lunch will be provided both days.
• Wikipedia training will be provided both days from 11am-12pm.

When

Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22, 2020

Time: 10am - 3pm

Where

National Academy of Sciences

2101 Constitution Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20418

Register

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Agenda

Preparing for 3:30 panel presentation
Andrew Lih, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Phoebe Ayers, Su-Laine Brodsky, and Lane Rasberry

10:00 Doors open

10:30 Welcome & goals, from the NASEM

11:00 Training by WikimediaDC

12:00 Lunch available for all participants

12:30 Negative Emissions Technologies Overview from Erica Belmont, University of Wyoming & Pete Psarras, Worcester Polytechnic Institute – NAS ROOM 120

1:00 Extreme Event Attribution Overview from Tom Knutson, NOAA GFDL & David Titley, Penn State – NAS MEMBERS ROOM

1:30 Editing in breakouts:

• Negative Emissions Technologies (NAS 118)

• https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Negative_Emmissions_Technologies

• Extreme Event Attribution (NAS 120)

• Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Extreme_events

• Biographies (Members Room)

2:45 Wrap-up and continuing engagement (NAS 120)

3:00 Adjourn

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Safe Space Policy

• Safe Space Policy

For newcomers

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Coordination

TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.

Click here for shared Etherpad document

Priority sources

NASEM reports:

• Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda (2019)

Citation in Wikitext: {{cite report|title=Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda|authors=National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine|year=2019|publisher=The National Academies Press|place=Washington, DC|doi=10.17226/25259}}

Plain text citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25259.

• Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change (2016)

Citation in Wikitext: {{cite report|title=Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change|authors=National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine|year=2016|publisher=The National Academies Press|place=Washington, DC|doi=10.17226/21852}}

Plain text citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/21852.

Suggested Work Lists / Climate Change

Very broad topics

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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)

Broad topics

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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

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Topic Things to assess Specific to-dos Sources / NAS report Priority for improvement Avg 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 copyedits for brevity and clarity NAS-Neg 150 bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (Q2577671) econterms 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

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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

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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

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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. This was started on Friday at Draft:Extreme weather event 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 Hurricane Dorian Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Harvey - still gets around 1000 page views/day 2019 California wildfires - says nothing about climate change, still getting 988 page views/day, peaked at 12,000 page views/day last year See also the most popular articles on tropical cyclones

Climate change policy and issues by state

• Climate change policy of the United States
• Category:Climate change in the United States by state
• Category:Climate change by continent

Suggested Work Lists / Biographies

Notable Members, National Academy of Sciences

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