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Week 2, Assignment 1: Climate Change

I think that this article could use more references. For example, there are no references in the second paragraph of the introduction. However, when references were used, they seemed to be appropriate for the topic and reliable. It seems that everything that was in the article was relevant to the topic. In order to fully understand the relevance of each topic, you have to carefully read through the article and read the legend for each figure and image. I thought that it was essential that they had so many different categories of physical evidence. If you look at this as a partisan issue of whether or not climate change is actually occurring, then this article is not neutral. This article presents facts that indicate that global warming is actually occurring, indicating to me that it is heavily biased towards the fact that global warming is occurring. However, this article does not place blame on anyone or any country in particular - in this way, the article is neutral. I think that this is a difficult question to answer, because we are all answer it from the point of view that global warming is a very real and very dangerous thing which is also the perspective that the article is written from. The information comes from sources that present scientific fact and draws conclusions based on observations that are made. Because these articles are based on scientific fact, they are not biased, but some may consider these articles to be biased if they do not believe that global warming is occurring. There is really no representation of the opinion that global warming is not occurring. However, this viewpoint is not based in scientific fact, which makes it difficult to compare to the data that supports the facts that global warming is occurring. The links that I checked worked, and there was no plagiarism that I found in sentences that these citations were paired with. Some of these citations are over 20 years old; in the scientific world, this often means that they are out of date. However, a lot of the older citations are facts that have been established and supported by more recent research which makes these citations ok in my opinion. I think that this article could use some information representing the idea that global warming is not occurring and why people believe that this is not happening. I think that this is a semi-protected article because it is a "controversial" topic and is at a higher risk than other pages to have opinions and non-neutral paragraphs put in it. I think that it is a good thing that this is a semi-protected article to keep these sorts of unproductive additions out. The talk page is focused primarily on improving the Climate Change article, not about the "controversy" over whether climate change is occurring or not. It seemed that a lot of the focus of the "talk" page was on formatting and making the article more user friendly. This article is rated as a level-4 vital article and as a B-class article. It is listed as a "delisted good article".