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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Mildly off-topic but relevant nonetheless – here in the UK, the government is having to have a ‘summit’ with our water companies and other interested parties about the drought in the southern half of the UK (those of you out there who think it rains here all the time – we get less rain in London than Paris or Santander in Spain. Just south of where I live in Cambridge, gets less rain than Casablanca in Morocco. But I digress…)
This is the same government which is absolutely committed to the building of (literally) hundreds of thousands of new homes in the same south of England…
FORTUNATELY, a few years ago the previous government passed the Climate Change Act, which presumably, along with the ability to cause the wind to blow at precisely the correct velocity 24/7 to power all those wind turbines desecrating our countryside, is also able to cause it to rain in sufficient quantities to fill the reservoirs, but not to cause inconvenient floods…
It’s fun to dream as long as you don’t let it lull you into a false sense of security. It’s a really really big witch and this display is only a hang nail. When she actually dies be sure to step out of the way when she falls over.
This is absolutely priceless. At least a 7.0 on the Richter scale!
I really want to see how the earthquake exhibit is designed and presented. Will they choose to alarm and scare us? Demand “action”?
I mean, there is in fact a real risk from earthquakes, especially when you live atop the Hayward fault, as I do.
I’m guessing it will be a more objective presentation without the scare tactics but with a few prudent warnings. I hope so and that will provide even more evidence of just how corrupt the AGW racket became prior to it’s collapse.
@Willis Eschenbach — Sixth Graders
Yes, in my experience, that is a feature of many of the efforts of the so-called “intelligentsia”. I can never tell if they’re being condescending or if that, in fact, is the intellectual level on which they operate.
I can’t help but to observe that there seems to be two classes of people who participate in what may be termed public debates: those who present their ideas in an infantile, obnoxious manner, and those who address their audience in a fashion respectful of their intelligence. Furthermore, there seems to be a high degree of correlation between the class into which a person falls, and the nature of his views in the debate.
The picture with the ‘hockey stick’ graph, ‘carbon in our lives’ was clearly a mistake. The CAS must’ve accidentally used Obama’s budget numbers instead.
“When the über green California Academy of Sciences pulls the plug, you know “climate change” is a dead issue with the public.”
This is very bad news for the climate industry, because when public interest wanes, so too will the funding for climate science (at least from public sources). With an election coming in November, look for Trenbeth, Hansen, Mann et al. to become even more strident in their rhetoric (if that’s even possible).
Skyrocket energy prices himself is still at work driving Lisa Jackson to kill the economy. AGW is still taught in schools. The MSM interprets any warming as “climate change”.
I have visited the California Academy of Sciences twice. The first time was when the building first opened and the second time was with grandchildren when they had a day off of school. My impression both times: the people staffing the exhibit were ardent advocates stating with certainty facts of dubious quality. If there was one thing I took away from my interactions, the science was settled. Maybe, just maybe one of the reasons why the public didn’t warm up to the exhibit was because there was no mystery, no adventure, a future to explore. Everything relevant to be known is known; lets go look at the fish.
The Greenies have already declared that frakking causes earthquakes.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/fracking-earthquakes-gas-120106.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0102/How-fracking-might-have-led-to-an-Ohio-earthquake
Any one want to give odds on that being included on the earthquake exhibit?
The Greenies have already declared that fracking causes earthquakes.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/fracking-earthquakes-gas-120106.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0102/How-fracking-might-have-led-to-an-Ohio-earthquake
Any one want to give odds on that being included on the earthquake exhibit?
In this case, what problem? Global warming is a set of solutions looking for a problem.
/More Soylent Green!
Can you say “no visitors”?
When the new CAS re-opened back in ( when? 2009? ), I was so let down by the AGW focus of every part of the museum, that I felt compelled to let drop my family membership to the museum. I felt irresponsible taking my kids there!
We were betrayed as the museum had sacrificed so much real science floor space for this climate change nonsense. We live in California and there was not one earthquake exhibit, are you kidding me?
Geology is science too!
Maybe they are starting to right the ship. If they do, I’ll probably re-join the museum.
Contrary to some of the other posters on this panel, the “The climate is an angry beast…’ quote seems very relevant and correct to me. The ice cores do show that the shift from interglacial to glacial happened very quickly, possibly within less than a decade.
We should at least remain aware that the climate is quite evidently just as stable in a glacial mode as in our current interglacial and we have no understanding of what makes the difference. AGW models that deduce a linear relationship of temperature to CO2 however also fly in the face of reality. Still, an experiment with our atmosphere is a bad idea, imho, because we really don’t understand the possible consequences.
One immediate implication of our ignorance is that we should be working hard to end our use of fossil fuels, which means nuclear. On that front, Hansen is correct, at least imho.
“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.”
shrewdly observant polistra!
will the parasites kill the host?
Compared to fighting the CAGW hoax exposing the frakking earthquake hoax ought to be a walk in the park. Very quickly the general population will understand that they are twisting the word ’cause’ to mean ‘trigger’ followed by the understanding that, even if frakking actually could trigger an earthquake – it was going to happen eventually no matter what – leading to the conclusion that frakking helps protect us against major earthquakes because it triggers several minor ones before larger stresses can build up.
Who knows, maybe someday deep high pressure steam injection along fault lines will become an accepted mitigation procedure and then these fruit cakes are going to have some serious egg on their faces.
Some Beliefs or Myths can be fun, such as the belief in UFOs or Bigfoot aka Sasquatch. In some cases, the evidence for those may even be more compelling than the one about manmade climate change. Anyway, the problem is that they need to make the MMCC myth more fun. Maybe a “climate change” theme park would do the trick.
Yeah! How dare those termites emit all that GHG stuff! They’re not thinking and their little experiment could kill all of us! Kill the termites! Kill the termites! …before they kill us.
Please pass the DDT….
It’s all ‘fun and games’ … until somebody hits you with a Sasquatch Tax.
Whether it’s ennui or dawning shame about the “CAGW Follies”, it would be a mistake to dispose of all that stuff. The Heartland Institute surely could manage an eleventh objective in their multi-million-dollar budget: Build and dedicate a Museum of Catastrophic Anthropegenic Global Warming somewhere in Washington (?), which feature this and other displays for posterity. In the foyer, Gore’s film could loop continually while a talking wax statue of himself could lecture visitors from a cherry picker.
… just a thought.
CAGW deserves a place among the great scientific hoaxes of all time:
http://listverse.com/2008/04/09/top-10-scientific-frauds-and-hoaxes/
Great photo-essay, by the way, Anthony. I like that it ends with the “next big thing.”
To me, this is very shallow thinking, along the lines of the of the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, so we need to be prepared for a possible disaster.
Seriously.
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Bill Parsons says:
February 20, 2012 at 8:34 am
“CAGW deserves a place among the great scientific hoaxes of all time:”
That’s a great idea! A permanent exhibit on scientific hoaxes. That would draw great interest, and would have immense educational value.
Steve in SC says:
February 20, 2012 at 3:12 am
My comments consist solely of an old Southern insult.
“Bless their hearts.”
One has to have heard this from someone of the coastal plain – and most of my wife’s relatives are/were in Savannah and rural Chatham County, GA. It’s been awhile. Thanks for the reminder. It does fit.
ImranCan says:
February 20, 2012 at 4:32 am
““Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks.”
Honestly, I just feel sad.”
On the positive side, it takes 30 years to react.
My dad’s parents were from Tennessee and Kentucky. I heard this from the Grands every time I did something… well, naughty (which was all the time). So… you’re saying this wasn’t a benediction?!