Miloslav Nic, Skeptical Science: Search the IPCC 4th Assessment Report

An online resource for the IPCC 4th Assessment Report

Guest post by Miloslav Nic, Skeptical Science, December 20, 2010

This is a post about my website Zvon.org where I've created a resource for the IPCC 4th Assessment Report (AR4). I've created a searchable database of almost every peer-reviewed paper referenced in the AR4, with links to each paper's abstract and lists of all the authors. This provides a powerful tool that lets you search the AR4 by author, subject, title and journal.

I used to be an organic chemist in the last millennium who reached a tipping point in 2000 and was irreversibly transformed to a computer specialist. The primary forcing behind my change was the foundation of site Zvon.org which became quite well known among XML programmers.

I always wished to turn Zvon.org from a programming site to a real information plunger (zvon means a bell but also a plunger in Czech, my native language). Zvon's international law documentsrepresent one incarnation of this dream. I have a first hand experience with an authoritative regime and so I do care about freedom and civil liberties.

Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4) provided a real challenge to prove that Zvon.org can fulfil such vision. I hope the following paragraphs aboutZvon.org Guide to IPCC AR4 will whet your appetite to try it and judge for yourselves.

The first feature of the guide is rather trivial, but I found it surprisingly useful. The contents page lists all chapters of the report using a keyword characterizing the chapter. A click on working group name then leads to the chapter contents and click on a chapter keyword leads to the enhanced references' list.

Much more here:  http://www.skepticalscience.com/An-online-resource-for-the-IPCC-4th-Assessment-Report.html