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Decade Old Academic Paper on Global Climate Zones Named the Most Cited Source on Wikipedia (theguardian.com)
An academic paper on global climate zones written by three Australians more than a decade ago has been named the most cited source on Wikipedia, having being referenced more than 2.8m times. From a report: The authors of the paper, who are still good friends, had no idea about the wider impact of their work until recently. The paper, published in 2007 in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, used contemporary data to update a widely used model for classifying the world's climates. Known as the Koppen Climate Classification System, the model was first published by climatologist Wladimir Koppen in 1884, but it had not been comprehensively updated for decades.
The lead author of the paper is Dr Murray Peel, a senior lecturer in the department of infrastructure engineering at the University of Melbourne, and he co-authored the updated climate map with geography professor Brian Finlayson and engineering professor Thomas McMahon, both now retired. "We are amazed, absolutely amazed at the number of citations," Finlayson told Guardian Australia from his home in Melbourne. "We are not so much amazed at the fact it's been cited as we are about the number of people who have cited it."
The lead author of the paper is Dr Murray Peel, a senior lecturer in the department of infrastructure engineering at the University of Melbourne, and he co-authored the updated climate map with geography professor Brian Finlayson and engineering professor Thomas McMahon, both now retired. "We are amazed, absolutely amazed at the number of citations," Finlayson told Guardian Australia from his home in Melbourne. "We are not so much amazed at the fact it's been cited as we are about the number of people who have cited it."
Who Maintains That Page.
We should find a place for them to live, but it shouldn't be in the greatest country in the world. They don't deserve that anymore, they reject science and progress.
is like academic equivalent of being hottest search term on pr0nhub; its kind of a mark of shame, but all your peers secretly wish it was them anyways.
Need a citation for Climate Change?
Just link to this page! No one really follows the links and this page has lots of cool words related to climate.
Sure way to look smart as you shill for the Alarmists and Leftists.
One of the other power hungry admins will revert its citation as not notable.
Normally in polite conversation we will talk about the weather. I would guess that many articles about towns/cities/states/countries/continent/hemisphere... would probably like to explain what climate it has. As climate affects the culture of the land.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Considering that nearly every article about a city, state, nation, geographic region, etc. talks about the Koppen climate classification of that area it's not surprising that the work would be cited so much. And for all you folks thinking this is about climate change, no it's not. It's about the existing climate as it is in those places.
We are not so much amazed at the fact it's been cited as we are about the number of people who have cited it.
A basic concept in geography taught to the kids from the very start of the subject is .. fundamental.
progress. In 1992, When I sto0d for
"Climate change" is on the list of Wikipedia's hot button topics.
People will use citations - correctly or not - in such articles to bolster their agenda and make it less likely their point-of-view-pushing claims will be removed for "lack of objective evidence."
So, if you eliminated all uses where this citation was used on weather/climate-change topics or weather/climate-change sections of other articles, what would its count be?
The most cited paper in Mathematics is over half a century old.
http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/h...
The most cited work in optics is several centuries old.
https://www.gutenberg.org/file...
You are welcome on my lawn.
What I want to see, is the original study that determined CO2 emissions were a greenhouse gas.
I want all the details required to independently recreate the experiment and make my own observations.
I have looked, but so far, I haven't found the details. Does anyone here know where to go?
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
How many more until Melbourne Uni recognise him?
See also The Discovery of Global Warming, which gives a historical overview of the major papers. Note that AGW was considered entirely disproven for about 50 years: the reasons why should be of considerable interest to true skeptics.