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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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."
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Create the article Extreme weather attribution to climate change. This was started on Friday at Draft:Extreme weather event attribution to climate change
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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
