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• • Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?

Every numerical fact was immediately referenced with a good reliable source. The vast majority of cited sources included credible journal articles, government data, and university research findings.

• • Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

The figures in the articles are very small and off to the side, often too small to interpret accurately. I think if they want to include figures thats great, but then they should be more of a focal point.

• • Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

The article remains neutral in the sense that it only gives relevant scientific data from generally neutral sources. Overall, these articles do not give a call to action or make recommendations on how to reverse the effects of climate change. All the links to the citations I clicked on were credible sources, most published in the last decade.

• • Climate Change is a semi-protected article on Wikipedia. Why do you think this is? Is it a good or a bad thing?

I think that Climate Change is semi-protected because there are climate change deniers that may try to change the page to reflect their scientifically-inept viewpoints. The talk page of this article is surprisingly tame considering the controversy surrounding this topic. I would guess that the kind of people that care enough about providing free information to all, wiki editors, are generally well informed and therefore more likely to make fact-based content.

Solar power in Brazil

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brazil's solar potential The total installed solar power in Brazil was estimated to be 69 MWp at the end of 2015, but generates less than 0.01 percent of the country's electricity demand. Changes to net metering rules for small-scale solar were announced in November 2015 although there were only 1,300 grid-connected systems at that time. Brazil expects to have 1.2 million systems in the year 2024.

Brazil has one of the highest solar incidence in the world, ranging from 4.25 to 6.5 sun hours/day. 

Year	Photovoltaics	CSP
MWp	GWh	MWp	GWh
2011	5
2012	17
2015	69

Solar energy has great potential in Brazil, due to high levels of sunlight. Brazil's least sunny city still receives 40% more sunlight compared to the sunniest city in Germany (1). However, solar energy accounts for over 7% of the energy production in Germany, compared to the 0.01% in Brazil. (2).

1. http://repository.unm.edu/bitstream/handle/1928/15053/Brazil.Solar.Power10.11.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
2. http://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-energy-support-germany-closer-look