Climate Change: "Over the following approximately 4 billion years, the energy output of the Sun increased and atmospheric composition changed. The Great Oxygenation Event – oxygenation of the atmosphere around 2.4 billion years ago – was the most notable alteration. Over the next five billion years, the Sun's ultimate death as it becomes a red giant and then a white dwarf will have large effects on climate, with the red giant phase possibly ending any life on Earth that survives until that time."
This passage seems like a unsubstantiated claim without enough citations to fully support it. The information here also isn't very informative of the Great Oxygenation Event and provides no additional sources to refer to.
Overall this article provides a great overview about the breadth and extent of global climate change while defining many of the different aspects of climate change. The article does an overall good job summarizing succinctly the different evidence that has been provided and the different mechanisms by which global climate change is propagated. It provides an overall accurate assessment of the current climate conditions on earth while not providing too much information to lose the reader. There are also relatively sufficient amounts of sources that could be used if a reader wanted to find more information about a topic. The fact that this article is a semi-protected article is interesting in that there seems to be a concerted effort to increase the amount of accurate information available to the public about the topic of climate change. I think this is a very important task because it seems like much of the American public doesn't have the scientific background to understand the primary literature. Thus, articles like these are able to translate the scientific language into common English to make it more accessible to the common American.
Effects of Climate Change on plant Biodiversity
I think the article provides a great historical context of plant biodiversity to contrast many of the current conditions to show that the plant biodiversity on Earth is currently very different than it has been the history of Earth. The overall article provides a very good history, followed by the current conditions and then the possible future directions of plant biodiversity as a result of global climate change. In addition, I like how the article doesn't provide any real solutions to the problems but only exposes the current issue and the challenges in being able to accurately predict the future outcome. This is abig part of science as science cannot dictate what we should do but only seeks to provide us with the truths. This article I think does a good job staying neutral about possible future actions and provides only the scientific information that is available while leaving the opinions out of the article.
Regional effects of global warming Overall, this source provides many highly reputable sources such as the IPCC to backup their claims and evidence of the different regional effects. It seems however that the article neglected to express many of the regional effects of the arctic and antarctic which are highly recognized areas to be impacted by global warming. I think this article could have spent more time talking about the biodiveristy effects or other climate or land effects of glacial melting associated with the global climate change. Even if the article couldn't express all the information that is available on the topic, the article could have at least posted several sources to direct people to find more information about these two major affected areas. Because most of our understanding of global change comes from geological and different biological studies of these areas, it would be appropriate to add more information about this topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eugenebng (talk • contribs) 03:13, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Original Text: "In hydrology, pipeflow is the name given to a type of subterranean water flow where water travels along the old root systems of the above vegetation or cracks in the soil." New Text: In hydrology, pipeflow is a type of subterranean water flow where water travels along cracks in the soil or old root systems found in above ground vegetation
Original Text: "Rain shadows do not occur because of general wind patterns but rather, due to the wind passing over a mountain range." New Text: Rain shadows occur due to wind passing over over a mountain range rather than general wind patterns" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eugenebng (talk • contribs) 03:23, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Pipeflow presents a major contributor the sedimentation into streams. Pipeflow deposits large amounts of various sediments not originally found in naturally ocurring streams [1]
- ^ Sayer, Aimée M.; Walsh, Rory P. D.; Bidin, Kawi (15 March 2006). "Pipeflow suspended sediment dynamics and their contribution to stream sediment budgets in small rainforest catchments, Sabah, Malaysia". Forest Ecology and Management. 224 (1–2): 119–130. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2005.12.012.