User talk:Pvilafl

Adaptation to global warming

Geography of Florida

Current sea level rise

Bibliography

Berry, Leonard, Dr. "Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Florida’s Domestic Energy and Water Infrastructure." Http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/. April 19, 2012. http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=e0f5e6f1-34f1-4bd9-8243-8b3c77e1d27d.

Harrington, Julie, and Todd L. Walton. Climate Change in Coastal Areas in Florida: Sea Level Rise Estimation and Economic Analysis to Year 2080. Report.

Lausche, Barbara J., JD. Synopsis of an Assessment: Policy Tools for Local Adaptations to Sea Level Rise. Technical paper no. 1419. October 2009. http://www.mote.org/clientuploads/MPI/Synopsis-Policy%20Tools%20for%20Local%20Adaptation%20to%20Sea%20Level%20Rise(fin).pdf.

Overwhelming Risk: Rethinking Flood Insurance in A World of Rising Seas. Report. August 2013.. http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Overwhelming-Risk-Full-Report.pdf.

A Region Responds to a Changing Climate. Report. October 2012. http://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/pdf/Regional%20Climate%20Action%20Plan%20FINAL%20ADA%20Compliant.pdf.

Strauss, Ben, PhD, Claudia Tebaldi, PhD, and Scott Kulp. Florida and the Surging Sea. Report. November 05, 2013. http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/research/reports/florida-and-the-surging-sea/.

My intended expansion of Wikipedia's articles on Florida adaptation to sea level rise. I intend to include and elaborate on current and planned local responses to the threats that sea level rise will introduce to Florida.


 * Paul, Thanks very much for your note on my talk page, and for posting your article choices. See you at the workshop! Tburress (talk) 14:26, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Feedback
Hi Pvilafl. I took I look at your sandbox and I wanted to give you some feedback on your draft. Am I correct in concluding that you want to turn it into a stand-alone article at Impacts of sea level rise in Florida? (Please note that capital letters are only used for the first word of an article title and for proper nouns like Florida; this is also true of section headers: it should, for example, be "Geographic impact" not "Geographic Impact".)

It looks good, but I have some suggestions. You should bear in mind that climate change related articles have been a controversial area on Wikipedia. As a result of this, all articles in the area are subject to discretionary sanctions. These requirements aren't difficult to abide by, but you should read them through, just to be on the safe side.


 * Important: make sure you avoid copyright infringement and close paraphrasing (especially check out the latter link; this is important). For example, a Google search of beaches drew nearly 40 percent of tourists to Florida, more than 90 percent of those coming from out-of-state. Direct spending by beach tourists contributed 3.9 percent of Florida’s GDP and created half a million jobs. Indirect expenditures doubled those amounts picked up two sources that use almost the exact same wording. This is a big problem. Look through your text and make sure that you're writing in your own words.


 * Consistency: In the second-to-last sentence of the first paragraph, you say "1.2m (4 ft)", while in the very next sentence you just say "4 ft". You should stick to a consistent way of writing units. (One option that might help is to use a convert template. That converts the units automatically for you. Writing 1.2 m produces 1.2 m, while writing 4 ft produces 4 ft. (Click through the link to convert to see more cool things that template can do.)


 * You should use citation templates for your references. If you look at the top of the edit window (the place you type text after you hit 'edit') you should see the word 'Cite' on the toolbar. Click on that, selected appropriate template from the drop-down menu, and fill it in as best you can. Doing that creates a better formatted reference, and one that it easier to maintain in the long run.


 * Make the tone less US-centric. For example, you say "Florida’s GDP is the fourth largest in the country". Instead of "$156 billion" say "US$156 billion". Stuff like that.


 * Make sure everything is sourced and avoid drawing novel conclusions not present in the sources (please see WP:NOR). For example, you say "Economic studies estimate that such households would be willing to pay as much as nine percent of their income to reduce the likelihood of a natural disaster with a 50-year return period by 50 percent"; make sure you get this from a source that's specifically discussing it in the context of climate change. I know it's a little annoying, but the policy exists because some people are prone to try to draw unreasonable conclusions. Since Wikipedia articles aren't reviewed by experts, it's too difficult to distinguish good synthesis from bad.


 * Link to other articles. Sometimes this requires some digging. For example, you say: "On October 3, 2014 the city commission of South Miami passed Resolution No. 203-14-14297,which called for Florida to be split into a North Florida and a South Florida". There are articles about South Miami, North Florida, South Florida and, in particular, a section in the S Florida article that discusses the resolution: South_Florida. Adding Wiki-links allows readers to learn more about a topic, and can save you having to go into too much depth about something that's peripheral to the topic.

If there's anything else I can help with, please let me know. I hope you enjoy contribution to Wikipedia, and keep it up after the class is over. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:47, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Climate change versus global warming
By convention, we've decided on Wikipedia to use global warming for the current stuff and climate change for the longer-term fluctuations. There really isn't a solid reason to use one or the other, except that there's a need for different terminology. That, and the fact that we had articles on global warming even before political consultant Frank Luntz tried to reframe global warming as climate change to make it sound less scary. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:01, 2 February 2015 (UTC)