User:TrevScott/sandbox

Notes on Climate Change Page:

In the third paragraph of the terminology page, the phrase "Change was a given", seems a little out of place, both grammatically (not stating something such as "The term change was used, for self-explanatory reasons"), and doesn't feel necessary either.

There's a large gap with no space in the external forcing mechanisms section (formatting error?).

The sources appear to be well cited and unbiased, and no instances of close paraphrasing were found.

One citation (76) brought me to a NASA website, where their information was then cited to a scientific article. I'm not sure if this kind of citation is allowed, or if direct citation would be preferred.

The viewpoints seem to be well balanced, attempting to remain scientific and avoiding political statements. A few sections are slightly shorter than others, such as orbital variations compared to volcanism, but this may be due to less data to support, or less explanations needed in how the cycles affect climate change.

Overall topics felt appropriate and not distracting from the point of the article.

The article used to be listed as a "good" article, but has been reevaluated and removed from the list. This, along with its semi-protected status, is likely due to the controversial nature of anthropogenic climate change (global warming), and people either attempting to purposefully edit in misinformation, or the higher level of scientific literature reading skills required to craft a well made article. This seems appropriate, as scientific papers can be difficult to read sometimes, and require more time and energy to properly assess and alter into a Wikipedia article without relying on oversimplification or close plagiarism.

http://www.jstor.org.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/stable/pdf/2462508.pdf

These differences in abiotic components alter the species present both by creating boundaries of what species can survive within the environment, as well as influencing competition between two species. Abiotic factors such as salinity can give one species a competitive advantage over the other, creating pressures that lead to speciation and alteration of a species to and from generalist and specialist competitors.