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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I had been a CAS member for 20+ years – even during the tough times when they were temporarily located on Howard St. I was thrilled w/ the new CAS, until I saw all the global warming BS. In a quasi-academic fashion the CAS listed their resources for “evidence” of global warming. I looked up these sources only to discover that they fell into 2 categories. 1.) government agencies that have received a great deal of funding based on the myth of global warming, or 2.) environmental organizations worshiping at the alter of climate change, and receiving a lot of funding to “research” global warming.
When it was time to renew my membership, I declined. To their credit, CAS membership office called me to ask me to renew, I explained that I did not subscribe to their far left leaning environmental agenda.
I believe their agenda has cost them a great deal of membership, and the daily census is way down. Let’s face it, people see that global warming is a farce, and they won’t support it with their disposable income. I think the tide is beginning to turn – no pun intended – in that government agencies aren’t as willing to fund this nonsense either.
A hundred years ago it was accepted as fact among the intelligentsia that eugenics was a proven scientific method of improving humanity. Prominent people bought into the ideology. With global warming, those in the know winked and nodded to one another, thus demonstrating their superiority to us non-believers. They went so far as to give their acknowledged leader an Academy Award, and a Nobel Peace prize. Today those trophies are not worthy to hold the door open.
Willis Eschenbach says:
February 20, 2012 at 12:36 am
“I guess what I’m saying is that this site is about climate science. Real climate science.”
Thankfully its about more than climate science. I agree with Rogelio, that the Catastrophic Climate Change/disruption myth is near an end. This site will evolve to cover issues of more current interest (or it will perish).
IMHO Anthony should jump on the idea of a Lunar colony. After squabbling for so long over so many negative, depressing topics (Nukes, ‘nam, cold war, terrorism, economy, and phony science like climate change) folks are really thirsty for a positive look forward. We are looking for something beyond simulations and CGI graphics. We are looking for real tangible exploration and accomplishment.
“Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks.”
Science is plenty bad magic for greenies. They know better. Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks. This is powerful IPCC sciance(tm). I must go now, and poke the angry climate beast with my hockey stick.
Across the Bay, the Chabot Space & Science Center still devotes an entire room to climate change. They issue RFID cards to the children as they enter, urging the children to be sure and complete every activity in that room, then later look up their results online. Not only are they giving incentives to the children to waste their hours at Chabot absorbing propaganda instead of science, they’re also tracking their whereabouts and activities with RFID cards so they’ll become accustomed to being tracked like property. This I experienced/verified Monday, 20 Feb 2012.
Dave Worley says:
February 21, 2012 at 5:21 pm
“Thankfully its about more than climate science. I agree with Rogelio, that the Catastrophic Climate Change/disruption myth is near an end. This site will evolve to cover issues of more current interest (or it will perish).”
Don’t worry. After every warming scare comes a cooling scare. The alarmists are the exact same persons.