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Generally speaking, knowledge about the climate crises falls into three types of knowledge: the causes and effects of the carbon emissions (climate science), methods for reducing emissions (climate mitigation), and the impacts of the climate crises and pathways to adapting to them (climate impacts and climate adaptation). This structure was used for the <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/" target="[object Object]">6th IPCC Report</a>. In this section, we are going to briefly outline what each of these looks like on Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects.
Climate science
Climate science is highly technical, and tends to be very scientific. This information is important to communicate, especially if you are organizing in a smaller language community: there may not be a lot of plain, simple language explanations about climate science in your language. Translating these articles can be really impactful.
However, detailed analysis of how, for example, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect" target="[object Object]">greenhouse</a> effect works or detailed discussion of how climate models are developed is often too much for the public -- broadly speaking outright denial of climate science, is not very common and for non-experts these topics can be hard to navigate, understand and then write in summary (as you would need to do with a Wikipedia article).
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Having some of the basic climate science on your wiki is likely important for the completeness of your language Wikipedia. However, you probably don't need the depth or complexity of knowledge shared by the IPCC in its <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-i/" target="[object Object]">report about the physical science of climate change</a>.
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If you have access to experts in climate science, there are probably plenty of gaps that you can work on around the science. However, based on the kinds of volunteers that most of our communities can recruit: the better knowledge gap to work on for volunteer editing communities is likely around mitigation and impacts and adaptation.
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