{"id":16200,"date":"2013-03-31T18:32:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T23:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:13:17","slug":"treatment-of-climate-change-and-hockey-stick-controversy-in-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/treatment-of-climate-change-and-hockey-stick-controversy-in-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment of Climate Change and Hockey Stick Controversy in Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current Wikipedia entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_change\">Climate Change<\/a> has about 7000 words on that one page (including notes, all the other words that show up on Wikipedia pages).  The current Wikipedia entry for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hockey_stick_controversy\">Hockey Stick Controversy<\/a> has about 25,000 words in all.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy over one aspect of climate change, the basic observation of temperature change known as the hockey stick graph, is certainly not more complex than, more important than, or harder to explain than climate change as a whole.  Is this a failing of Wikipedia? A success for the Climate Science Deniers who are also hoping to have the conversation about &#8220;the controversy&#8221; be an order of magnitude lengthier in our schools than any discussion of climate change? A random occurrence? I&#8217;m thinking a little of all three.<\/p>\n<p>25,000 vs 7,000. Holy crap.  Would someone who works with Wikipedia please see to this? Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Wikipedia entry for Climate Change has about 7000 words on that one page (including notes, all the other words that show up on Wikipedia pages). The current Wikipedia entry for the Hockey Stick Controversy has about 25,000 words in all. The controversy over one aspect of climate change, the basic observation of temperature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/treatment-of-climate-change-and-hockey-stick-controversy-in-wikipedia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Treatment of Climate Change and Hockey Stick Controversy in Wikipedia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5021,1],"tags":[21,739,5020,682],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4di","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28436,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/28436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}