UnSplash
Categories: image libraries
UnSplash is a fantastic community for photographers to share their creativity. As well as providing a copyright free library of amazing images for bloggers like myself they also provide a vibrant community blog.
Credits
Svelte
Categories: web development
This timelines used in this website were built with Svelte, a framework for building web applications of all sizes, with a great development experience and flexible file system-based routing. It provides “the most loved web framework with the most satisfied developers in a pair of industry surveys”.
Tan Li Hau
Categories: web development
The charts I use on my blog have been written in a mixture of Svelte and Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG). I got a lot of inspiration from Tan Li Hau’s videos on YouTube and highly recommend his channel if you are new to Svelte.
Our World In Data
Categories: data sources
As they say on their website: “If you want to contribute to a better future you need to know the problems the world faces. To understand these problems the daily news is not enough. The news media focuses on events and therefore largely fails to report the two aspects that Our World in Data focuses on: the large problems that continue to confront us for centuries or much longer and the long-lasting, forceful changes that gradually reshape our world.” I plan to make extensive use of the data they have collated in order to explore issues that I am most interested in.
Wikipedia
Categories: data sources
This incredible website needs no introduction. It was invented in 2001. Although it is neither complete, definitive nor correct in all subjects, it provides an unbeatable resource for exploring a vast array of topics and when I last checked had over 55M pages!
Human Progress
Categories: data sources
HumanProgress.org recognise that there is often a wide gap between the reality of human experience, which is characterized by incremental improvements, and public perception, which tends to be quite negative about the current state of the world and skeptical about humanity’s future prospects. They have gathered empirical data from reliable sources that look at worldwide long-term trends hope that their website leads to a greater appreciation of the improving state of the world and stimulates an intelligent debate on the drivers of human progress.
Clippy
Categories: web development
Bennett Feely is a web developer who kindly shares his efforts to help people like me to implement our ideas more efficiently. I have used Bennett’s clippy page to define the chart symbols for my timeline charts.
Matt Ridley
Categories: climate resources
Matt Ridley is a prolific science writer as well as being a member of the UK House of Lords, an unusual combination. Unfortunately, as with the House of Commons, he is greatly outnumbered by science luddites who hold sway over public policy.
Copenhagen Consensus Center
Categories: climate resources
The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think tank that researches and publishes the smartest solutions to the world’s biggest problems. Our studies are conducted by more than 300 economists from internationally renowned institutions, including seven Nobel Laureates, to advise policymakers and philanthropists how to achieve the best results with their limited resources.
Climate Warming Central
Categories: climate resources
An independent informational site covering various aspects of global warming and renewable energy presented in layman’s terms. A balanced view of climate change issues is presented. Those who are interested in more detail about our atmosphere, oceans, and climate science will find this site very interesting.
NetZero Watch
Categories: climate resources
Run by the Global Warming Opolicy Forum, Net Zero Watch is highlighting and discussing the serious implications of expensive and poorly considered climate change policies. It provides a clear view of the reality of climate and energy policies and what they mean for the general public. They believe that we all want to see a cleaner and better environment for future generations, but if climate and energy policies are rushed and their costs and implications not fully thought through, they will almost certainly do more harm than good.