Resources
This section will be developed with links to articles and websites which can give you an idea where we at The Dappled Planet come from. We don’t necessarily agree with all the conclusions in these articles/papers, but they present enough interesting twists and turns to question some of the hot air in the mainstream media.
(Balanced) Environmental websites
- Treehugger – a wealth of interesting and up to date news on anything environmental
- Friends of the trees – About living sustainably with Planet Earth
Climate Change
- Test your knowledge on Global Warming (fun site!)
- Paleomap Project – ever wandered what the Earth looked like millions of years ago before man first came down from the trees, or what the climate was like way back then? Then checkout this site!
- World Energy Report (June 08) – Interesting discussion on biased media reporting of Climate Change
- About Al Gore’s ‘hockey stick’ temperature graph – examining the science behind the image
- Another article on the hockey stick temperature graph – and you wonder why everyone reads tabloid newspapers instead!
- What can influence temperature data collection – how errors can creep in when trying to be exact about recording temperatures
- Sources for temperature estimation – an informed article on how scientists have estimated what temperatures were in the past and how they are using that data to project temperature change in the future
- Drill evidence for a warmer Antarctica (May 08) – News article on results from the Andrill project in Antarctica
