What looks to be an powerful new tool in the struggle to bring real science to the public has just hit cyberspace. IPCC at ZVON.org’s - IPCC AR4 Guide
A searchable database to the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
A clear, easily searchable database to the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its hundreds of reports. You can do searches under contents, authors, or journals. The presentation of the pages is beautifully simple. The type is a clear crisp Ariel (or close) so it's readable, even with them fading eyes. I played around for a while and all the cascading links worked fine. NO unnecessary bells’n whistles that only serve to distract and delay download time…. meaning when you click a link it comes up fast - very very nice touch.
It’s brand new and its creator Miloslav Nic warns: “this beta release does not provide any explanations and guides for people without experience with scientific publishing, they are planned for future releases.” For a first release it looks great.
It'll be great fun watching this site develop. I recall when SkepticalScience.com was taking its first baby steps and see what a valuable and formidable site that has evolved into. It would be wonderful to see this site flourish.
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The following is taken from http://zvon.org/eco/ipcc/ar4/
Zvon.org guide to Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) collects and evaluates many thousands articles, books, reports, and other published materials about climate change.
The guides main features:
• references by chapters
• searchable index of report titles (contents)
• authors' search (authors)
• journals' search (journals)
- for more details with screenshots see Skeptical Science post
This guide is intended for an in-depth study of the report. If you are interested in the basic findings the Summary for the policymakers of the Synthesis Report is more suitable for you.
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