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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	This is the funniest thing I've read today. Thank you. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:37, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

I loved this second sentence. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm glad someone appreciated it. (Thanks.) I've always hated "middle of the road" as a metaphor for moderation. It rather makes me want to laugh and scream at the same time. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 17:32, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Hi J. Johnson (JJ), Thanks a lot for the great work you do for Wikipedia (articles, pages created), especially the Geology articles. Thanks, 2know4power (talk) 05:20, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Stellar body in the hayloft

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Because this is how to properly close an RfC: careful and detailed analysis of the arguments presented and their bases, with a particular eye to what is best for the encyclopedia and its readers, not just editorial egoes and wikipolitics.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  07:56, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: Concur, but see Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 22#Recognition for closers, no traction. In my experience, most closes are pretty good and most receive silence (if the closer is lucky). ―Mandruss ☎ 09:27, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Can always propose a Closer's Barnstar. I do agree with the old thread's observation that it's a one-sided matter, though I have in fact previously thanked a closer for a superb really-took-the-time close that didn't go my way. I don't agree that "most closes are pretty good", but most of the RfCs I watch are style-and-titles ones, and too many of the closers are partisan and just WP:SUPERVOTING, so my experience of the matter is very skewed. Even outside that sphere, I find many closes to be perfunctory head-counting and, while often not incorrect, it's disappointing and often almost necessarily leads to the issue being re-litigated later.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  04:49, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Yes. Even where a result is (by some standard) "not incorrect", the more important consideration is often whether the various parties feel the process was fair. It seems to me that a lot could be said about this, and have been tempted to start a discussion, but haven't had the time to go through the archives and see if it has all been said before. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:01, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. Frankly, I was figuring I would be satisfied to get off with just silence. Of course, the real test is whether all "sides" find the result to be something they can live with. Perhaps I should keep my head down a while longer? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:27, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Heh.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  04:49, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Your acknowledgement of my edit gave me the confidence to keep going. TheTechnician27 (talk) 06:21, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Citation bot

Sorry about that. I am trying to clean up pages that blocked the bot because of old bugs. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:25, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

It looks to me like some of the old bugs are still present. But what really ires me is removing Citation_bot from the deny list. If you think it is good enough to consider unblocking I would suggest dropping a note on an article's talk page asking for reconsideration. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:36, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

What changes do you dislike? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:43, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Especially: changes in template formatting. Others have argued that it doesn't matter, that it doesn't come within the scope of CITEVAR. I say it does matter, as clarity in format makes checking ("proof-reading") easier and accuracy more likely. And if it does not matter, then why does the bot change it in the first place?

Specific points I have found essential for careful checking: |firstX= and |lastX= (for any given X, and same for "editor") should be on the same line. Which comes first isn't so important, but having them split on separate lines leads to confusion of association. (And I have found citations with "last" and "first" given different "X".) Same for |volume=, |issue=, and |pages=} (esp. for journals). These are related parameters, and sometimes I use the combination of volume and first page as a check for the right article. Another very important point: in vertical format the closing double-braces of a citation should be all the way to the left (cols. 1 & 2), especially when buried "in-line", as it is extremely difficult to catch the end of a citation when it requires scanning each sentence, and is not distinguished from the closing braces of other templates. (For sure, I can use the 'search' function, but often I am searching for something else.) If you think "my preferences" are slight or merely idiosyncratic, please come help us at Global warming, where we are trying to pull some 300+ badly formed and often incomplete "references" out of the article text so we can ease the maintenance and verification of both text and citations.

I also object to removal of urls to alternate sites when the url happens to contain the doi. Note that the DOI site is not the only site that uses a doi in some urls. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:46, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

I just ran it on the global warming. There is much to be gained there, but I did notice that there were are few white spaces changes, that should not be. Investigating. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:04, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

I figured it out, if there is

...|first=abc|
|last=xyz

Then the || get's converted to one |. Which means that the line break gets eaten. Clearly GIGO, but I think that the bot can do better. This was very common on the global warming page. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:08, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

I didn't mean to suggest running the bot on GW, and am thankful you didn't save, as that would have been extremely aggravating. But feel free to copy a section somewhere else and try it.

There is a lot of "very common" garbage on GW, which is why we are working on it. For most of that work we have to go by eye, which is why formating is so extremely important. I have seen parameters set up with the v-bar at the end of the line (thoroughly non-sat), but I don't recall any lines in form of "|first=abc|". And I have seen this splitting done numerous times where there was no such inaneness. Perhaps some regex is too simple. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:31, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

GW is an amazing test case. The white space GIGO nuts, but now fixed in the BOT. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 03:00, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

As I suggested before, how about loading a sandbox somewhere with some of the "amazing" GW content (both deplorable and desired) and let's see what the bot does with it. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 18:51, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

I have already fixed a couple things using it as a test case. It’s the Mos Eisley spaceport of citations: a wretched hive of scum and villainy. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:16, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

"It"?? Please do not use GW for testing, or run citation_bot there at all, as we don't need the interference. Please do copy portions of it elsewhere – though at this point it might be best to grab content from an older revision – for testing. A strong advantage of testing in a sandbox is that the results (whether ill or well) won't be confused by other editing. Also, one has a free hand to add special cases, and subtly refined variants to elucidate the finer details. And all without those pesky resident editors — to say nothing of the passers-by! — tromping all over one's beautiful data. Right? ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!!!

Thanks a lot for your guidance and reminders on ArbCom case! PavelShk (talk) 23:00, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for hanging in here. There was so little guidance (around zero?!) that I'm embarrassed you mention it, but I'm pleased if you found it satisfactory. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:21, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Threats

I take "And you're starting to annoy me enough that if someone were to suggest changes I'd be more likely to support them. Your interests would likely be better served if you just drop this discussion." as a threat to act to change an article to cause annoyance of me rather than in the interests of improving the article. I think you should review why you are editing on Wikipedia if you have that sort of attitude. Dmcq (talk) 21:49, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Leaving comments in the correct sections

Hi J. Johnson, I've been moving comments / threads you've started at the Canadian politics workshop page. As you are not listed as a party in this case, please make sure to use the 'Comments by others' section, instead of the 'Comments by parties' section to leave comments. Feel free to ping me if you have any questions, or if there is any way that I can be of any help. SQL^{Query me!} 23:08, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Practically a party, but I won't quibble about it. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:20, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

	The Hard Worker's Barnstar
	For your diligence in establishing a citation model for global warming and developing consistent IPCC citations. Femke Nijsse (talk) 17:04, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:00, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

I don't....

understand citation very well, but thanks for you periodic clean ups. If any of that was my doggie's doo doo when I didn't have a doggie bag I apologize. I have no more braincells to learn it better than than when you tried to teach me years ago. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:37, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Hey, don't worry about it. Citations generally, and the IPCC citations especially, are a veritable swamp where many editors have struggled, often taking inventive and even amusing approaches. Even my own work I have often found to be less than fully satisfactory, all of this showing how hard it is to be perfect. I do appreciate that you have not been making problems. And I'm working on better instruction. E.g., you might take a look at WP:BCC and see if it makes sense. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 19:13, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

How are links to Warming stripes "promotional", "link spamming", etc. ?

Your removal of an internal link at Climate change had the edit comment "Not particularly notable, seems more of a promotional nature" and your removal of the internal link at Global warming had the edit comment "Removing link spamming". However, even a cursory glance at Warming stripes and a basic Google search will show that dozens of reliable news references recognize the importance of a data visualization tool that makes the data behind global warming intuitively understandable to non-scientists. It is thus "particularly notable" (doesn't just "seem" so), and it's hard to imagine how describing data visualization can be "promotional". Further, your attempt (diff) at the Administrator's Notice Board to get someone else to investigate (!), was closed down after a few hours (diff) with the comment "Wrong venue. Take this to the article talk page, please" — which you have not done. There might be some room for reasoned discussion about the external links in the article, but you haven't even done that. Please describe, specifically, the basis for your opinions and actions, or I will replace the links. —RCraig09 (talk) 06:02, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

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Comments

Hi JJ.... Just sending this FYI to everyone recently in the topic area who doesn't have one in the last 12 months. And before I posted here, I sent one to myself too. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 02:15, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for helping sort our how to correctly include the earthquake early warning information for our group. Disaster Reindeer (talk) 20:53, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

I believe the edit you are referring to was where I mistakenly restored your edit, which I have since reverted. Please read the message I have left on your Talk page, as your edits here are in violation of Wikipedia policy, and close to getting you blocked. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:07, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Please add back the QuakeAlert section to the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. QuakeAlert is an approved solution by the USGS no different than ShakeAlert LA. Feel free to contact them for confirmation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Disaster Reindeer (talk • contribs) 16:19, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

"Please" is a definite improvement from your previous imperious "Do not remove" (here). But you still fail to understand that no one "must be mentioned" (here) simply because they are a USGS partner, or that Wikipedia does not exist for the promotion of your group. In particular, I advise you that if you have any financial or other interest with a topic where you are editing you are expected to disclose it. Failure to disclose such interests can result in being blocked.

We have specific criteria for adding material. I don't have time for a lengthy explanation, so I am just going advise you: it would be best that you avoid any editing connected with Earthquake Warning Labs. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:22, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

personal talk

Please post that sort of thing at my personal talk page. In fact, it would be kindly of you to move it there. Article talk is for article improvement discussion. Thanks NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:01, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Sure. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:03, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Re: Redundant is good

On special:diff/908165593, you may be interested in User_talk:Citation_bot#"Removed_URL_that_duplicated_unique_identifier". Nemo 19:19, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Indeed. I noticed that, but have been too jammed with other stuff to give it any attention (yet). Thanks for the reminder. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:06, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Delete Talk:IPCC Fifth Assessment Report/citation?

Don't want to do it myself as there might be information there you would like to be kept. Femke Nijsse (talk) 19:00, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes, let me take care of that, and the others, as some replacement text is needed. Also, the new section isn't quite all there yet. (Which I am working on.) ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 19:36, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

(A) Why would we delete, as opposed to archive, the talk page?

(B) Propose J. Johnson add his name to WP:WikiProject_Climate_change/Participants

(C) Propose the IPCC citation pages migrate to an WP:Advice page at the project

NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:03, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

A: Because it's a little tricky archiving a subpage? Or: once then newpage is finished those citations will be mainly just junk, with extremely little purpose, and likely to confuse anyone that stumbles across them? Well, I will give that some thought when I get to that point.

B: I'm not that keen on getting involved in that area. Too much work to do else where.

C: No! The IPCC citation pages are specific to IPCC reports. What we probably should have is a note on the project page advising that there are special provisions for citing IPCC, and pointing. But the IPCC citation page is still under construction, and I think not yet ready to be advertised. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:47, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

I must be confused, but that's normal. Great, when the new whatever is ready we can do something sensible with the other antiquated doohickie. In lieu of simply deleting (see "what links here") another approach is to add Template:Historic and cross reference to the current thing.

On the bigger issue, I'm not ready to embrace Wikipedia-wide IPCC citation standards. Options, sure. Standards on certain pages where there's a real issue, after discussion, sure. Site-wide, no. But I imagine we'll have this discussion when the new thing you're working on is ready. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:16, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

I consider the "antiquated doohickie" model to be an exploratory but failed approach, of hardly even historical interest, and the several Talk subpages not the proper location. Don't forget that even if that material is simply deleted it is still retained in the history.

I don't know what you mean by "embrace", but it might be noted that the requirement for citation consistency applies only at the level of each article. A useful method of IPCC citation should certainly be available "Wikipedia-wide". Now if the editors at some article really wanted to follow the IPCC's preferred citation format more closely – well, they are free to knock themselves out. But on one of our most prominent articles, where the "Wild West style" has made such a hash of citation, I think we should endeavor to do better. If the resulting model is useful "Wikipedia-wide", then so much the better. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:48, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

FYI

Just in case... you may know of part of my harv use and harv comments but not all. Just in case you think about the part you know about and wonder if I'm working against harv or trying tactics to keep using "not-harv".... just in case any of that is going on..... then FYI the rest of my harv use and comments you may not know about is both using it and telling others about the work being done on IPCC protocols. So..... just in case you get to wondering what my "strategy" is, its simply to have a full transparent consensus to make everything not just work but BE FRIGGIN FUN. What happened to fun, JJ? Your temper does not make this fun and makes me fear disagreement with you. So.... if you get to wondering what "angle" I'm shooting for, please review my last weeks' contribs before drawing any conclusions. Thanks. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:44, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

I think you have "over thunked" this. I have had no suspicions of any "angle" or "strategy" on your part to oppose the use of Harv, though your highly colored section header certainly does not help. Nor do I have any complaint (stop to check... nope, don't recall any :-) about your contributions. Well, aside from this one instance, and I think that with any consideration you have to allow that the section heading was non-neutral, that you were rather quick to fault Harv as the sole cause, and that (to-date) you have not explained what constitutes "malformed". And BTW, I did check the two discussions you linked to. If there are others I should know about please say so; I don't think I should have to trawl through your contributions to find them. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:05, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Snipping flags

You asked me on my talk page why I'm snipping flags. On many ship article pages, the ship info box includes an "identification" field which often is used to provide a ship's radio and signal flag call sign, and often includes the International Code of Signals flags for those letters. For 19th-century ships, those flags are an anachronism. Your graphic of the 1857-1900 Commercial Code flags is an excellent source for the 19th-century flags used for ships in those days, so I'm snipping the flags so that they can appear as separate files like the modern ICS flags do. I'm using the images on some of the older ships I am doing histories for - see for example, USFC Fish Hawk and USFC Grampus. It's not perfect, but I hope it will get Wikipedians started on creating separate files for these older flags to go along with the modern ones. I hope I got the attribution, etc., right per the license and your wishes.Mdnavman (talk) 21:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)mdnavman

Why would you consider use of the modern flags anachronistic? The flags themselves (distinct from their use) are (as far as I can see) essentially the same, the ICS having incorporated the then existing flags.

As to the licensing/permissions, it is probably not a good idea to copy my permissions text, as that is confusing. (Are you saying that I have said it is okay to use your file??) It is probably sufficient to cite the file you used as a source, and then you grant permission to use your derivative image.

Some other points. It is generally preferable to put these images on WikiCommons; eventually your image will probably get moved there. Also, filename suffixes – such as ".png" – are preferably not capitalized. Whether on WP or Commons, there is a way to "move" (rename) files. Off-hand I don't recall just how, I think you have to add a template requesting the move. And you should specify suitable categories to aid others in finding your image. But then, as I have said, consider using the existing images. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:10, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Second person

Some day I may do a greatest hits of your use of the second person, and I believe the picture painted will be "needlessly petulantly childishly personalizing". It's so unnecessary and so unpleasant. Please revisit WP:ARBCC#Purpose of Wikipedia, which is enforceable at [{WP:AE]]. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:09, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Revert on Loma Prieta earthquake

Hi, why does the template link to earthquake magnitudes, rather than moment magnitude scale? I think that each Magnitude scale symbol should directly link to the corresponding scale's article, don't you? The earthquake magnitudes article doesn't show the symbols or description of each Magnitude at the top of the article, allowing for quick access for readers, so I think the specific article is more appropriate. Mistakefinder (talk) 13:29, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

By "earthquake magnitudes" you presumably mean the Seismic magnitude scales (SMS) article, which is what the {{m}} template links to. (E.g.: M_w.) More precisely, each scale handled by the template links to the specific section of that article that describes that scale. Indeed, the rationale for writing SMS is to provide both an overview of the concept of "earthquake magnitude scale", and a brief description suitable for the general reader of each scale covered.

As to having each scale "directly link to the corresponding scale's article", no, I don't think so. A key problem with that is there are only five such articles, of quality that ranges down to wretched, and all with intimidating doses of $Math$, like $M=\lg \left({\frac {A}{T}}\right)_{\text{max}}+\sigma (\Delta )\,$. These are insufficient for handling the 30 some scales used on Wikipedia, some of which are not notable enough for an article. Even in the five cases where there is a specific article I believe the description provided at SMS is more suitable for most readers. And in those five cases there is a "main article" link for those that want to go deeper.

I don't know what you mean by "The earthquake magnitudes article doesn't show the symbols or description of each Magnitude at the top of the article....". Of course not. Why should they? The links from {M} are not to the top of the article, but to specific sections, where the labels typically used for each scale are shown. In bold, no less.

One of the purposes of the {{m}} template is to relieve editors of the task of searching out specific magnitude scale articles to link to (which largely do not exist), and to provide a simple-to-use and uniform system of wikilinks for "earthquake" (seismic) magnitude scales. Explicit links are no longer needed, and not useful. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:06, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

The documentation you made at Wikipedia:IPCC citation/AR5 provides solid credibility to Wikipedia's content and would not be intuitive at all for any beginner to sort. By you putting this here you greatly improved the way Wikipedia presents this content. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:06, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! I am pleased that my efforts (still incomplete) are helpful. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 18:55, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Clarification of opinion

Hello,

I'm posting this here to make sure the renaming discussion of our article about the technical general definition of climate change remains on topic. Feel free to move this to a separate heading in our article about human-caused climate warming if you prefer this to be on a talk page. You indicated that you see climate change and global warming as two separate topics. Would I be correct in assuming that you make the following distinction:

• human-caused climate change (or whatever title): summary of the three IPCC working group reports together (as is now discussion under global warming)
• global warming (or whatever title): scope similar to chapter 2 (Observations: Atmosphere and Surface) of the IPCC WGI report, with some additions from chapters 5, 7, 8 and 9?

I've been contemplating the same. The reason I have not persued is, is that instrumental temperature record basically covers global warming. Femke Nijsse (talk) 07:10, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

(P.S. you also suggested that climate change migth have to redirect to effects of global warming. I think that many people are more interested in reading about the political issue of climate change, including the politics, denial machinerie and mitigation as now discussion on global warming)

Perhaps we are making very similar distinctions, but I wouldn't express it the way you have. I'm still pondering this.

Re "the political issue of climate change": are you referring to the effort to deny the existence, cause, etc., of global warming? Or (and?) the political response ("climate crisis", Gerda, etc.) to the effects of climate change? ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:04, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. When I say 'political issue', I mean everything we now discuss under global warming#responses and global warming#society and culture. I assume you meant Greta, not Gerda? . I'll await your pondering :). Femke Nijsse (talk) 21:20, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Oops! Of course I meant Greta. Gerda is nice, but nothing to do with CC.

Your link is broken, but undoubtedly you meant global warming#Society and culture (which includes "Political response"). All that I see as part of the broader CC topic. "Global warming" – which I see as a distinct and narrower topic – has its own political aspects, which includes the supplantation of that term with the more benign, more diffuse "climate change". Eventually I may write up something on this, but other work is also needed. ("Had we world enough, and time ....") ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:58, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

In some discussions (maybe in the climate crisis article?) there has been the suggestion we make an entire article about the different semi-synonyms of modern climate change: climate change/global warming/global heating/climate crisis. If you want to work on that as well, that would be great. There is ample scientific literature about the motivations to use the various terms. I've read three scientific papers in detail about what effect the framing has. In User:Femkemilene/sandbox#Background I summarized this incomplete reading of literature. Note that U.S. Republicans are more worried about climate change, so that for them it is not more benign. As somebody who grew up in a house below sea level, global warming also doens't invoke as strong an emotion with me than the more-encompassing climate change. Femke Nijsse (talk) 06:45, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) When I started climate crisis I was hoping to define framing as the key element of the article's scope. Expanding it to include other terms sounds great to me. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 07:56, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Femke:

U.S. Republicans are not "more worried about climate change, so that for them it is not more benign." When "global warming" started catching air in the mass media (the 1980s?) the fossil fuel industry got worried not about GW itself, but the public's response to the term, and started trying to frame the issue. This is where they started pushing for the term "climate change". It was not simply that it was less frightening to the public; it diluted the scientific message (and gave industry latitude to deny) that there was a definite trend, that it was global, and definitely warming. By dropping "anthropogenic" – as in "AGW" – they could also dance around causation. The effect of this is seen in one of the studies you refer to in your Background, that Republicans are more likely to "believe in" CC than GW: because there are more ways of adjusting that term to certain beliefs. (E.g.: "Of course climate is changing – it does that all the time.") And when (despite industry's best efforts) people are concerned, I suspect the difference between Democrats and Republicans is not so much what they are concerned about, but the term used to describe that "what".

In your Background you state "I think getting politics involved is not fruitful here." Sorry, but politics is involved, and the choice of these terms is political.

You also suggest we should "completely disregard the framing of this single party in a single country." You overlook that this "single country" is currently one of biggest contributors of CO2, is responsible for a greater share of legacy CO2, and has announced it is pulling out of the Paris Agreement. You also are ignoring that this single country is the primary source and incubator of AGW denialism. (Unsurprisingly, as the bulk of the wealth derived from extraction of fossil fuels, or dependent on the use of such fuels, is owned by citizens of this single country.) The framing of this issue in the softer, non-urgent form of "climate change" in this single country is a large part of why we did not curb global warming when we could.

Getting back to the core issue of distinguishing GW and CC: I acknowledge that the terms are often conflated. However, they are not synonymous, and they can be distinguished. "Global warming" is the specific phenomenon of an increase in the heat added to the Earth's climate system, and is measurable (albeit with a great deal of trouble); it is a scientific fact. It is the change in the climate system that drives all the other changes. However, "global warming" encompasses more than the instrumental temperature record. It has a cause (primarily anthropogenic CO2 emissions, also measurable), and tangible effects (such as sea-level rise, extreme weather, habit shift, etc.), often lumped together as "climate change" (or the effects thereof). Both "global warming" and "climate change" have a political aspect (as mentioned above, different from the political responses to climate change), and deprecation of "global warming" is itself political. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:21, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. The sandbox analysis is still in draft phase, I was planning to adjust that analysis not only with more reading of literature, but also a more nuanced commentary from my side and your comments are useful for that (don't fully agree, but that is for a later phase). Femke Nijsse (talk) 22:27, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)@JJ. correction... the technical narrow definition of GW does not include, for example, Ocean heat content. Rather, defined narrowly, GW is about rising mean Global surface temperature. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 01:18, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

If we want to decidate a page to global warming in its narrow definition, something like post-industrial temperature rise would work better? It needs something temporal or causal and the word rise. Femke Nijsse (talk) 05:56, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Are we talking (general concept) or (anthropogenic)? I favor the former. Better, in my view, to restrain the urge to create yet another article when we could improve the stub Global surface temperature with the addition of sections #Global warming and #Global cooling. This structure (putting sections under that title) will do as much to convey the narrow definition as any words we write in the text. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 07:49, 26 October 2019 (UTC)