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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If the little darlings who attempt the CO₂ experiment find that it doesn’t cause any extra warming, are they told that the heat is missing, or that they just didn’t do it right?
Would it be possible for us skeptics to come up with a set of such simple experiments for kids that would demonstrate the concepts accurately. Or a version that did not present the material in a way with pre conceived ideas of what the results should be.
You too can share a Nobel Peace Prize. Complete all 23 experiements and receive an official certificate for contributing to the IPCC’s 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
I’ve seen these at Barnes and Noble and some higher end toy stores, if you want to check it out in person or buy one.
RJ says
I’ve seen these at Barnes and Noble and some higher end toy stores, if you want to check it out in person or buy one.
Henry says:
you are not joking?
Why would anyone buy such crap? This is not funny, actually. This is tragic. Because it shows the the whole state of our education (in the world, never mind the USA who should be on top)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/02/friday-funny-global-warming-home-experiment-kit/#comment-1133580
This is surely a piss take. It can’t be real.
If it’s real I despair for the future of the human race…
Reg Nelson says:
November 2, 2012 at 12:16 pm
“People who bought this product also bought: Lil Lawyer Junior Litigation Kit.”
I like it…
Bloke down the pub says:
November 3, 2012 at 4:06 am
If the little darlings who attempt the CO₂ experiment find that it doesn’t cause any extra warming, are they told that the heat is missing, or that they just didn’t do it right?
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No, they’ll probably be shown how to adjust the original temperature readings down and the later ones upwards. Hey presto, warming.
SteveT
You missed the most important part. The inside lid contains a framable copy of the “Certificate of Thanks” (with de-coder ring) from the Noble Peace (of crap) Prize committee. It states below your name that the award was “given to the ICPP and Gore for their efforts in creating this sca…kit”. Just sign your name to it and abracadabra, you can be awarded a Peace of Crap too.
I love how it says WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD
So what ever you do don’t try to swallow it!
I can’t wait to see this company’s next “science” kit. I kind of expect it might be a “Cold Fusion” kit.
These evil S%*$holes who are exploiting the capacity to spread lies are the same people who made pot illegal
then told you it is heroin
and now want to be in charge of all your medicine.
Government zealots.
They also are here to let you know it’s time to tax the air you breathe. And that if you don’t agree to it, YOU’RE an immoral S%*$hole.
And there’s something ‘creepy’ in you for wanting to protect yourself from them.
Now.
Remember: the whole thing about making POT illegal was purported CATASTROPHES here, and there… but all these years afterward is the government sorry, or is it making war on marijuana because now, it doesn’t make you have sex with animals,
it’s a ‘gateway’ or a… TIPPING POINT drug where, could set off …. what? You could set off
APOCALYPTIC DOOM.
And if the difference is there’s proof, THEN WHERE’S THE VENTILATION SYSTEM EQUIPMENT and TEXTS for ACCOUNTING for THERMAL PROPERTY DIFFERENCES in SUBMARINES when the ppm of CO2 gets about 4 thousand parts per million?
“You owe! You REALLY owe, all you have!” but “I’ll settle for a couple percent.” And “You’re lucky I’m not taking more, you pathetic, evil grub!”
Said the Government Employee.
To you.
“Gimme your money, or you’re an immoral S%*$hole.” Pure criminal shakedown through traumatization and terror. ” You HATE your KIDS, gimme your MONEY!”
Said the Government Employee
With press paid for
with YOUR MONEY.
Pfft.
That kind of talk gets people sued out of existence before it’s over, and just because Al Gore defied the world to continue on doesn’t mean he’s a genius.
He’s just evil, and incidentally, he is also in the party that wants to be in charge of all your medicine, too.
And also incidentally, he’s in the party that made pot illegal. The guy who was president who did that was a Democrat, and AGAIN, coincidentally, it was a Democratically controlled House, and a Democratically controlled Senate, too;
they somehow managed to shift themselves out from under it as though they didn’t even start that war on people,
and have moved on to making war on yet other things, like the REST of your medicine, and national borders, and being able to have a moral unction connected with a religion, and generally, anything that makes someone say no to anyone
but government employees.
And, this is being run by government employees. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a movement of anyone who sees it to work for government, form enormous obfuscation networks, then say people trying to break into the obfuscation networks mean having to hire more security for government employees
and once in, government employees know like all things, their movement must expand, or contract: stasis is bad for them because that’s one step from contraction so using enormous government infrastructures designed for real emergencies originally
they print up more ludicrous bizarreness not found anywhere in the wild
then claim ‘yew aint no gubmunt emploYEE, YEW dont no NUTHIN.
It’s crime. Crime through government body. Straight up, wearing a burka so we can’t tell what’s necessary infrastructure,
and what’s there to spread the catastrophes and spread
the terror.
That balmy weather might break out.
If there was ever a movement that demonstrates why no matter how bad it gets you can’t let government ever fulfill more than the very VERY basics, it’s this one.
The SAME ENTITY TELLING YOU POT is HEROIN
and that YOU, BREATHING MORE, contributes to APOCALYPSE
wants
ALL
YOUR
MEDICINE
to be RATIONED
by
that SAME group.
GOVERNMENT employees.
Where the POLITICALLY ZEAL-FILLED go, when a free enterprise job is too risky a deal.
Can you imagine telling them you thought you were choking down at the GUBMUNT MEDuhSIN plAYS
and them telling you it COULD be too much CARBON DIOXIDE in the AIR, and GIVING you one of these TESTS to take home and do, since they don’t HAVE any CO2 TESTS in at the moment – (there’s a shortage because they cost a million a piece)
but when you do that test, call them back with the results, and they’ll tell you they’ have any of the real tests in, or not –
when you just have a chunk of steak in your throat?
The reason you didn’t pull the steak out at the restaurant is because it’s a violation of civil code BR 5-49 to practice any medical procedure including saving your own life.
Or you forfeit treatment at all.
And getting treatment elsewhere or rendering it,
is
a crime…
… the long missing evidence: climate science is settled, it’s a piece of cake! – way to go old climate sceptic scums – to some broiling or the sandy way /sarc off
What Did I Tell You!? says:
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May I suggest that you look at Ric Werme’s page? (Scroll down to the formatting section.) There are ways to emphasise a comment besides using CAPS. Not being familiar to HTML code, it took me awhile to figure out that when I type something inside “” that’s not how the comment will appear but it will format the text (the starting and the ending ) between them. That might make it more likely what you say will actually be read. Throwing a bunch of ALL CAPS in the middle of what someone says makes it appear to be a “rant” whether it really was or not.
http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/index.html
(PS Thanks again, Ric.)
“I type something inside “” that’s”
The < and it's oppisite didn't show up. Maybe if I'd typed '?
But where is the chapter on “responding” to FOIA requests?