WUWT readers may recall our guest post from Russ Steele in 2009: CA Academy of Science AGW display apparently not very popular
Here are a couple of photos from his visit then:
That’s one big hockey stick they got there – click to enlarge
He wrote then:
For the most part these displays were ignored, except for a few casual observers seeking refuge from the long lines at the real science displays. This lack of interest and participation seems to reflect the recent Gallup Polls indicating people are not really concerned about global warming, or ocean warming either. It could be our children have caught on to the scam, or they have reached global warming overload for the school lessons, and want some real science for change of pace.
I visited the CAS for the very first time on Saturday with my children, and I’m pleased to report that the exhibit is now in pieces on the floor, and cordoned off from the general public. I asked a museum docent “why is the global warming exhibit in the museum brochure (showing her mine) but closed off?”
Her response was priceless:
People just weren’t warming up to the exhibit. We are doing a new one on Earthquakes opening soon.
Russ Steele was right.
Maybe it had to do with the message. For example, this bit of ridiculous propaganda in the original exhibit:
Image from “In my Copious Free Time“
Or maybe the fact that people didn’t like being lectured on what to eat, especially when the exhibit was in full view of the museum’s Academy Cafe:
Image above from Wandering Architect.
The “Carbon Cafe” is in shambles now, as is the “green building” portion of the exhibit, click to enlarge:
Here are more views of the dismantled exhibit:
In it’s heyday, it looked like this:
Image above from Cinnabar, Inc. details: New Academy of Sciences, Cinnabar’s “Altered State” Exhibits Speak Up about Climate Change and California
The whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling is still there, but everything else is dismantled.
Maybe it was the labeling of California as an “altered state” in their press release for it that did it in. The LA Times said at the opening that it was a Museuem that Shouts Climate Change.
I guess maybe they shouted too loud, because now they plan to exhibit on something that Californians can really relate to:
When the über green California Academy of Sciences pulls the plug, you know “climate change” is a dead issue with the public.
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Beautiful!
I would love to see that happen to the CSIRO “Science” Centre in Canberra. The first view when you enter is of an enormous “hockey stick” graphic on the entrance wall.
Sickening.
The times, they are a changin’
“The public is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks”.
As other folk have said the climate is a fascinating subject, one that will still interest me long after the Warmists have moved on to the ‘next big narrative’.
Looking at the photos and art work, I only have one word to describe the exhibition:
BORING
(Alright. I could add irritating – like the huge size range of the text of the ocean warming and stick poking slabs – which are also boring in their bland choice of colours. I know its all to do with tag clouds but it’s nothing to do with science and a lot to do with advocacy.)
I used to love visiting museums, way back before they become post modern propoganda forums.
On one hand: Food is 25% of our carbon footprint.
On the other: The huge animal skeleton.
One wonders, since animals do not drive SUVs, what could be the carbon footprint of a whale? Maybe almost as big as Gore’s.
Everyone wants to rule the world. Until they wake up.;)
My main reaction to the photos was disgust at the expense of such huge exhibits, as well as regret concerning the roughness of the pictures, by which I mean the similarity to pix in books for small children, like those showing a brightly-colored locomotive engine grinning and swaying with three wheels off the track as it careens around an impossible curve. I apologize for the long sentence, but those exhibits were just gross.
How many Heartland Institute budgets did that thing cost?
J says:
February 19, 2012 at 9:16 pm
You are on to something.
The graph is more representive for money involved in the scam …
Museums are skating on thin ice these days, with city and state funding about gone.
So a very expensive and useless exhibit will tend to teach a lesson to other museums and organizations now, in a way that wouldn’t have happened in richer times. Every exhibit has to pay its way.
Gaea’s revenge on Gaia, yet again! The Greenies consumed the surplus resources that made their existence possible. Negative feedback rules the world, and it even rules the idiots who think it doesn’t.
Scottish Sceptic: ‘When historians look back at this scam, all they will see is a few official documents’. Don’t underestimate historians as they are very good in digging up information and are not satisfied with a few official documents. That’s the reason we know so much of the Third Reich propaganda. This propaganda (post-modern science) and all those involved will be remembered for centuries.
My comments consist solely of an old Southern insult.
“Bless their hearts.”
Rogelio says:
February 19, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Sorry to say this but this site and all “climate” sites will go same way as less and less people become interested in the subject as they are now noticing that climate really hasn’t changed and will not in their lifetimes LOL
Rogellio, you should read the site description in the header (at the top of every page).
Commentary on puling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts.
FYI Rogellio, this site is a “science” site of which climate is only a part, and will survive the shake out when the pure “climate” sites are regulated to the dust bin of history.
I am a born skeptic and individualist but I still worry about overreaction and backlash. Maybe it is time to worry that the whole ecology movement will be destroyed in reaction to the foolish excesses of warmists and green extremists. There is a small segment of the green movement that is valuable and important and I hope we don’t let the green zealots unintentionally kill that part with their nonsense. I remember the days of smog alerts and rivers so polluted that fish could not survive and swimmers were warned to stay out of the water. We don’t want to go back there.
Perhaps this site could be helpful in identifying and supporting good green science at the same time it identifies and attacks green foolishness. Willis Eschenbach has made some nice contributions along that line. Maybe the subject deserves a thread of its own.
Ding dong the witch is dead….. the wicked witch is dead!
The melancholy of the communist hippies
Once upon a time the hall of self-proclaimed reason were filled to the brim with neophyte personas. From wall to wall and ceiling to floor, jammed packed at the door. There was everybody that was somebody and more. After all, the halls protected against the insanity that was the outside reality. The speaker spoke and the quiet settled, everyone listened intent, straining their ears and with bulging eyes horrified at the madness that was to come.
That was then, this is now, empty is the hall save one.
The chaos of murmur and the cacophony of righteous anger dissipated over time. What remains but a mere ec(h)o-chamber covered in the gray mass of the one’s slime. The “comfort+” cell at the insane asylum a mirage of reason to the oblivion of silence–that now echoes from wall to wall and ceiling to floor.
The days of glory all but gone, the outside rationality has won. :p
“Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks.”
Honestly, I just feel sad.
Thank you for the photos of the lecturing carbon cafe; visited LA for the first time a few years ago, and this easterner was stunned at the signage (also pleasantly surprised at how nice LA is! After all of the moaning and groaning one hears, I was expecting some sort of festering cloaca, and quite enjoyed my stay, finding much of it beautiful) everywhere, and I started taking pictures myself because after a while it was funny to me.
My favorites were the small tasteful public signs affixed to streetlamps blocks from the beaches in Santa Barbara and points north saying “Warning: Tsunami Danger Zone” (I started looking around, much like the devotees of the Chruch of Jesus Christ the Kidnapped in Vonnegut’s Slapstick, and just couldn’t stop), and best of all, the signs on restaurants: “Warning: This establishment serves fish and other sea products, which could contain mercury and other substances known to the state of California to cause, cancer, birth defects, and other conditions. Notice required by state law XXXXXXX”.
My brother in law took us out to a lovely place in LA, and to see that engraved in brass plated to the marble wall at the entrance of this beautiful place (where we had a delicious FISH dinner) pretty much blew my mind. “Known to the state of California”…indeed!
Anthony, my jaw dropped when the new museum launched and I saw what a bogus political and fraudulent science was allowed in one of my favorite museums before it was replaced by the new one. I even posted to some museum design boards about how the exhibit was not science, talk about the alarmist push back for the museum exhibit designers!
Stuff like this really gets me wondering … what would things be like right now if they had been able to lock us all up into one big ‘camp’ where we would be cut off from the rest of the citizens, unable to warn everyone else that ‘something’ going on wasn’t quite right? Of course they’d have to create an enforcement group tasked to devise a system to secretly identify each one of us and then a method of extracting us that was never noticed by any large group of people all at once.
Extraction is the easy part, do it at night when most of us are asleep at home – where we ‘feel safe’ and are usually only surrounded by our own family. But then where would they find enough informants to study every citizen’s activity to see whether or not they were like us, certainly that would be too big of a task force to all be working for the government and might arouse an even broader suspicion among the population? So no, they would have to keep the new department very small but well funded to contract informants who could mingle among us unsuspected and report our names to the enforcement group. The enforcement group would then extract us, place us in “protective custody”, (just to make it ‘legal’) and then “re-locate” us.
A few more minor details would include taking away our guns because, after all, they wouldn’t want to fear getting shot while knocking down the door of one of us in the middle of the night. Another would be to control the newspapers and radio stations which is relatively simple because there aren’t many. They could just bribe those owners willing to scrub any stories about the “re-location” activity and plant stories to tidy up when things went wrong. Fatal ‘accidents’ would then be arranged for any who refuse to accept the bribe which would only serve to verify to the bribe takers that they made the right choice.
Hopefully you suspect that the above sounds loosely like late 30’s, early 40’s Germany
Just because they haven’t taken away our guns doesn’t mean they will ever stop trying.
Just because they haven’t started collecting each our names doesn’t mean they don’t want to.
Just because they are not censoring the Internet doesn’t mean they aren’t planning how to do it.
Just because you haven’t read about any grand scheme to use ‘global warming’ as a means to take away your freedom – doesn’t mean that it isn’t already happening.
At 9:33 PM on 19 February, misterjohnqpublic had written:
I haven’t yet noticed that. To the extent that “the average person” in my experience thinks about man-made global climate change – particularly if that “average person” considers himself educated – he treats with the concept in much the same way that he treats with taxation, earthquakes, atherosclerosis, and U.S. foreign policy: hideously awful and life-threatening, but impossible for him to affect, and therefore something about which his purposeful personal action can make no difference.
Therefore why think about it?
In modern psychiatry, the phenomenon of “thought blocking” is much discussed as symptomatic of major thought disorders, chiefly schizophrenia, but in commonplace usages the expression is applied to the much more superficial tactic – actively or passively adopted by almost all people – to dismiss from constant conscious consideration distressing information about which the person concerned understands that nothing can be done either to abate the condition or to mitigate its adverse effects.
To the best of my personal appreciation, this appears to be what “the average person” in America today has done with regard to the AGW hokum.
Especially the person who considers him/herself to be educated (and therefore “believes in AGW” on the basis of what he believes to be the “settled science” of the “97% of climate experts”), having confronted the fact that – no matter what is done to reduce the carbon footprint of “the average person” in these United States – activities in other countries (Red China, India, etc.) will still continue to increase the anthropogenic carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, recognizes that the Draconian enactments of our Mombasa Messiah’s EPA and the shrieking “Liberal” fascist pogroms perpetrated by the rest of las warmistas neither can nor will make any real impact upon the impending catastrophe of “We’re All Gonna Die!” global warming.
Got that folks? It must be understood that “the average person” in these United States and throughout the rest of the industrialized world does most assuredly believe in the “crippled conjecture” behind the anthropogenic global warming fraud, but has simply given up all belief in the efficacy of either personal or government action to forestall or even mitigate the oncoming catastrophe, and therefore simply refuses to think about it, much less to support any of the actions being pushed by the Watermelon warmistas.
An unintended consequence of the fervent campaigns of Trenberth and Algore and Prof. Jones and Dr. Michael “Hide the Decline” Mann and the chittering root-weevils of the lamestream media – striving (in the words of Confederate general and prominent Ku Klux Klan member Nathan Bedford Forrest) to “keep up the skeer” – has been quite effectively to so thoroughly terrorize “the average person” who “believes in AGW” that said person despairs of doing anything about it, especially in the face of facts in recent years demonstrating that nothing proposed by las warmistas could possibly do any goddam good at all.
It’s not skepticism of the AGW fraud that we’re seeing on the part of “the average person” but plain paralytic funk.
CAS Pullgate!
I don’t think that this is anything to take encouragement from quite frankly.
From the looks of the snaps in the story all this exhibition consisted of was placards. Who’s going to want to see professionally produced placards?
If this exhibition had, say: an Argo float cut in half, a model of all the satellites doing their thing and a working model explaining how the MSU instruments worked it would hold some interest and people would have had a look.
Sorry, this isn’t anti CAGW sentiment. From the look of this thing it was built by people who knew what the message was but had no grip whatsoever on the detail – it’s what happens when you let PR people run a museum.
Another church of global warming goes down…