Larry Sanger has a dream... Citizendium

By stoat on September 19, 2006.

And you can read about it at http://citizendium.org/. Predicatably enough, wikipedia already has an article on it. Will it fly? Who knows...

[Update: Nature has an article on this, featuring a brief appearence by yours truely... I don't get to say anything exciting though. Or perhaps more precisely, I *didn't* say anything very exciting]

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It is more than interesting. It is devasting :-(

I am not surprised. I have been monitoring the Arctic ice using the US Navy's ice maps which you can see here: http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/USNavy.htm At the end of August this and last year there were a straight lines of low concentration ice leading from west of Novaya Zemlya to the North Pole. I checked and this is the route taken by the Russian cruise liner which travels to the pole from Murmansk. The ice must be pretty thin if a cruise liner can produce a trail obvious to satellites.

Unfortunately I do not have access to archives of the USN maps but would be interested in hearing from anyone who has more evidence on those features.