Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climate change

New article Air conditioning paradox - is it needed?

Through the talk page of the climate change template, I became aware of Air conditioning paradox, a new article. I have questions about the article's title and its notability. See the article's talk page if you have an opinion on this that you'd like to share. EMsmile (talk) 13:17, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

boldly merged to Air conditioning#Environmental effects but as I did not discuss someone may unmerge

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/05/29/india-needs-to-turn-the-air-con-on Chidgk1 (talk) 05:25, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Psychological impact of climate change into Effects of climate change on mental health

Comments welcome at Talk:Effects_of_climate_change_on_mental_health#Proposed_merge_of_Psychological_impact_of_climate_change_into_Effects_of_climate_change_on_mental_health. fgnievinski (talk) 03:17, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Someone is wrong on Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q125928#Confusing_definition_and_inconsistent_Wikipedia_articles

I am going to bed now - Goodnight https://xkcd.com/386/ Chidgk1 (talk) 19:33, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's not how the comic says this should go. Relatedly, should wikidata include "Also known as: climatic variation, climate variability, climatic change"? The first two don't seem accurate at all, I would intuitively suggest they refer to other topics. Ghits on the third mostly refer to a scientific journal. CMD (talk) 03:17, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Climate variability is usually about shorter time scales, whereas climatic changes are about longer timescales. There is a large bit in the middle where some scientist call something variability while others call it climate change, depending on what they're studying. So not synonymous, no. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 21:57, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your thoughts on AI generated graphs?

It would be great if you could comment at Talk:Social cost of carbon#AI generated image Chidgk1 (talk) 13:55, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather § RFC regarding adding relations to climate change on specific severe meteorological event articles

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather § RFC regarding adding relations to climate change on specific severe meteorological event articles, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:21, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New research programme searching for feedback/review by interested folks

m:Visualizing sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia. A Research Programme started in 2025 to identify and visualize knowledge gaps related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia.

Interested to learn more ? Read and add your name on m:Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change/Community... or just react/ask questions here :)

Anthere (talk) 17:45, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anthere. Welcome to the Wikiproject, and lovely to see this project take shape! Could you give an example of what you mean by visualising knowledge gaps? You might be interested in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Figures page, an inactive project that sought to improve and update climate change data visualisation across the board. More recently, TatjanaClimate has been working with various organisations to release climate-related media onto Commons. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 21:00, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anthere, good to see you here. To be honest, I have tried to understand the page you linked to and I don’t feel like I’m getting it. There is a participatory design process, but what is it designing? Are there examples we can see of what similar research projects have designed?

I am also curious about “ According to the results of our preliminary project, volunteers need their curiosity to be stimulated…” where can i resd more about this preliminary project? Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 08:00, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"So far, most of the campaigns manually curate lists of articles every time, going through article by article to assess quality, and often without being able to compare across different linguistic editions of Wikipedia easily." That sounds where we are and generally have always been. I am curious to see the ideas underlying making such curation more accessible and visual. I know Wikidata captures GA and FA equivalents across wikis, unsure if SPARQL can get more granular assessments. CMD (talk) 09:37, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Should coal be specifically added to the lead of climate change?

If you are busy then no need to think about the wording yet, but if one or two of you could say yes or no in principle that would be great. Because the wording is a little tricky, so if you are against in principle I won’t spend time on it. Please answer at Talk:Climate change#Add the word “coal” to lead? If so how? Chidgk1 (talk) 06:51, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Economics of climate change mitigation, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
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Any of you Wikignomes?

I am finding tidying up Glossary of climate change after merge tedious - will finish eventually but help welcome Chidgk1 (talk) 16:03, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New source for “Greenhouse gas emissions by …” articles and sections

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/the-big-emitters Chidgk1 (talk) 06:34, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]