People send me stuff. My friend Rick was in Eugene, OR recently for a Ducks game and saw this in a store on the shelf. Of course, he had to snap photos and send me an email to tell me all about it.
I got a chuckle out of the “experiment with a model atmosphere” part. Here’s the reverse side:
I did some research to find out who makes this and how it is marketed. It turns out to be from a company called Thames and Kosmos:
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Global warming — the steady increase in Earth’s air and ocean temperatures since the mid-20th century — is one of the most discussed and studied topics in the scientific community today. This kit introduces you to Earth’s climate and the issue of global warming with 23 hands-on experiments. Since Earth’s formation, its climate has been constantly changing. Periods of warmer climate have alternated with ice ages. These changes happen over long periods of time. During the last few decades, a warming in the climate has been observed everywhere on Earth. While some warming may be due to natural phenomena, scientists predominantly attribute global warming to human influence. This kit gives you the basic knowledge you need to understand the climate, why it changes, and how our actions affect it. First, learn about Earth’s climate system, weather, and atmosphere by conducting experiments with a model Earth and atmosphere. Explore the hydrological cycle to learn about humidity, clouds, and precipitation. Model Earth’s heat reservoirs, thermals, global and local winds, and ocean currents. Next, learn how human activity influences the climate with experiments involving carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect. Measure the effects that increased levels of carbon dioxide have on the temperature of air. Learn about how warming affects the Gulf stream. Finally, investigate the potential consequences of global warming on humans, ecosystems, and the world’s economies. Learn what we can do to protect the climate. The full-color, 48-page manual guides your experiments. Ages 10 and up. |
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Intrigued, I decided to have a look at the online manual available here (PDF) The table of contents is telling:
I really wanted to see how they do experiment 21, suspecting they do some variation on Al Gore’s fabricated CO2 experiment, given the included equipment I see. Unfortunately they don’t give a complete manual online lest some enterprising kid decides to just skip buying this and do it at home.
I suspect that experiment 20 fills the plastic globe with CO2, and then they do something like what they show in experiment 8-10:
As we know (but Al Gore still refuses to acknowledge) an experiment like that can’t possibly work they way the Earth’s atmosphere does, which is why they had to fake the results in post-production.
The last item in the manual table of contents (page 46) reveals that this science kit has advocacy as a conclusion:
Economic Consequences 46
How Can We Protect The Climate?
Let’s hope some parents follow this early advice and teach their children to be skeptical detectives rather than followers:
Encourage your child to be a good detective and look closely to see the results of the experiments.
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I wonder how much CO2 is produced manufacturing those kits?
Experiment 24: hiding the decline
Does it come with a grant application?
P.36 The Most Important GHG = CO2 = FAIL!
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I hope several museums obtain such hoax-kits to include with displays such as The Piltdown Man, The Cottingley Fairies, The Feejee Mermaid, Wilson’s Loch Ness photo, the Cardiff Giant, and so on – it’s a long list.
Unbelievable.
In a time when it is growing cooler.
You see what the problem is?
There is no proper education. It is pure simple mindedness. They are all still stuck at Tyndall and Arrhenius, i.e. the closed box experiments.
How do we get them to start thinking out of the box?
http://blogs.24.com/henryp/2011/08/11/the-greenhouse-effect-and-the-principle-of-re-radiation-11-Aug-2011/
Ho ho! Very few people could use this propaganda kit in the UK, at least going from the illustration above, as incandescent bulbs are no longer available to heat the globe up. So they’ve already switched off the sun!
You know, if they can get a 21st Century kid to do actual science experiments with this kit, more power to them. If they are that interested in science they’ll find out the truth sooner or later.
Quote –
Since Earth’s formation, its climate has been constantly changing. Periods of warmer climate have alternated with ice ages.
end quote
Can someone tell me when the millions of years long period associated with the age of dinosaurs and the foundation of the concept of fossil fuels, went? I am under the impression that the periods of iceages and interglacials actually is a very short period of time compared to the early years of continuous tropical Earth. I have never exactly understood why the climate went from tropical to glacial/interglacial to start with, but what happened to that ions long period in the way science is presented now? This type of “science” sort of reminds me “all the ice in Greenland melts in a period of only a few hundred years,” when the ice record seems to indicate otherwise, or there can’t be any “ice core” temperature/co2 record, etc., to compare anything to in the first place.
My head hurts from the stupid. Another in a long line of Suzukoid fantasy drivel aimed at impressionable youth.
The table on the online manual says:
The IPCC says:
Won’t this confuse the children?
“the steady increase in Earth’s air and ocean temperatures since the mid-20th century ”
It would be harder to be skeptical if they could stop adding words like “steady” and “robust” in places they don’t belong.
Oh yeh! I get it! It’s a modern version of Nostrodamus’s chrystal ball! Right?
Experiment 20: “Let’s Produce CO2”
Breathe.
I agree. Tell your kids to look at the slope of ever rising co2 in the atmosphere than show them the lack of global warming over the last 16 years. Surely this experiment beats kits anyday.
Warning: choking (laughing) hazard…
I hope you spent only a little time “researching” the company who makes this. I mean their name in right there on the front of the box :^)
On the front there is a warning: “Choking Hazard”.
I agree, I started choking as soon as I saw the package.
Where do they get the incandescent bulb?
Durn, forgot the link again.
Scry with Crystals – Traditional Method
Along with the kit you might want to browse over this paper in August.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-blockbuster-paper-finds-man-made.html
Actually, this is not funny. This is tragic.
I’m amused by the choking hazard warning on the box. Is this another thing we’ll have to worry about with too much CO2?
At last, we know where they get their ideas from.
Pointman
Does the kit show how CO2 makes storms seek out high tides at full moons?
Made in China?