Remember back in the boring old days, when science museums contained meticulously researched information about the distant past, such as the age of the dinosaurs, interesting mineral exhibits, or educational demonstrations of scientific principles?
All that is about to change, with the planned construction of New York’s new climate change museum – a museum dedicated to fantasy theories about things which might happen, if we accept the predictions of climate models, which have yet to demonstrate any predictive skill whatsoever.
According to Grist;
For many, climate change is not yet personal, but Miranda Massie is trying to change that. Massie is the executive director of the forthcoming Climate Museum in New York City, a project that seeks to make the impacts of and solutions to a changing climate intimate and tangible. The museum was chartered by the New York Board of Regents on July 20, which brings the project one step closer to the fabled red ribbon.
It’s a venture steeped with ambition — a word that has seen a lot of play in the climate space recently. In the run-up to the negotiations in Paris this December, the United Nations has framed countries’ carbon-cutting commitments in terms of their levels of ambition; diplomats and policymakers have termed the apparent lack of political will necessary for a 2C world the “ambition gap.” In climate policy, ambition is everything.
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The museum, which Massie aims to launch in an interim space of 10,000 to 20,000 square feet within the next two years, will be the first of its kind in the United States. (Hong Kong is home to the small Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change.) Backing her up is a heavy-hitting team of advisors and trustees, including environmental, legal, and communications leaders from the likes of Columbia University, New York’s Environmental Justice Alliance, NYU’s Tisch, NRDC, the London Science Museum, the National Audubon Society, and Harvard’s Kennedy School. Danish-Icelandic installation artist Olafur Eliasson lent early visionary sketches for the museum. While most plans are preliminary, one of Massie’s hopes is for an initial pop-up installation on Governors Island next summer.
What a wonderful outing for the kids – all the excitement of a trip to the big city, then a few hours wandering around the climate museum, filling their impressionable little brains with messages of despair, destroying all their hopes and dreams.
P.T. Barnum would be very proud.
Good. In 30 years, after the whole “climate change” nonsense has been laughed and hooted off the world stage, it will be place the tykes can go and learn about the stupendously stupid ideas people actually believed, causing man to switch to vastly more expensive, less efficient and less reliable forms of energy for absolutely no good reason. It will be an amazing and cautionary tale.
How are we going to explain to future generations, why whilst pretending to be primarily interested in cutting the burning of fossil fuels, we excluded big hydro and nuclear? The two most cost effective large scale producers of low carbon baseload electricity supply.
Oh dear. This current era is going to end up looking as daft and self-defeating as the era of Pope Innocent and the ill-fated fourth crusade.
I’m embarrassed for my own generation of fools.
I suspect that when the history is written, it will not look kindly upon our delusions and extravagance.
And the various wars that we started won’t look like such a brilliant idea either.
Will if New York suffers a other bitterly cold winter.
Then am expecting that this project will be put on ice. 🙂
I don’t wish another horrid winter on NY, but it would be kind of poetic to have a few pics of the museum partly buried in snow drifts and ice… 🙂
I’ll put that on my itinerary right after the visit to the exhibit of all the miracles made possible by research into N-rays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray
Interesting read. Seems to be similar to CAGW…
I think it would he appropriate for the climate change museum to be part of a larger museum that includes other notable persons / groups that failed to understand long term resiliency and adaptability including:
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. Thomas Robert Malthus’ Essay on the Principle of Population
. Paul Erlich’s Population Bomb
. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
. Al Gore former VP now profiteer on the climate movement, author of numerous climate fiction works
. Michael Moore works cannot begin to describe
. Hollywood actors Leonardo Decaprio, Robert Redford, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, etc.
. Corrupt former head of IPCC Rajendra Pachauri
. Congressional ‘don’t bother me with details’ senate and house members specializing in purely rhetorical climate arguments including … Boxer, Waxman, Markey
Shouldn’t that read, Jetsetting Hollywood actors Leonardo Decaprio, Robert Redford, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, etc.
By the way Cate Blanchett should be referred to by her correct title of “Carbon Cate”
Good ideas for a skeptic “museum” of the contrary. Problem is, keeping it standing, as the green terrorists would no doubt have it torn up/burnt in no time.
Must include Margaret Thatcher, who pushed the idea into international politics because it was useful for her domestic policies.
(Allegedly changed her mind after leaving office, but the damage was done.)
RoHa
You’re right, but based on the science (or simulcram thereof) available in the 1980s, Mrs. T’s was a not unreasonable approach.
She did have other things to look at.
Had she looked at the state of – then – meteorology and climatology, with care, she may have asked more questions.
Maybe Ronald Reagan – and the Plutonium Blonde – sought the end of he Cold War.
Not a small legacy, ending the Cold War.
Auto – an unashamed admirer of Mrs. T, though receptive to some of her faults. No-one is infallible, not even me!
Excerpt from the Grist article:
…”Backing her up is a heavy-hitting team of advisors and trustees, …”
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Is there such a thing as a soft-hitting team ???
Just cus they brought out the heavy hitters it is somehow supposed to affect my thinking ?
Generally it just leads to the digging of a deeper trench.
“In God we trust, all others bring data.”
Don’t worry. When kids come out of the museum to see the streets covered in three feet of snow, they might have a little giggle.
Anyone who under estimates the resources behind the climate change propaganda machine and thinks that true science will win the day is naive and will be surprised when the carbon restrictions are in place and electricity prices soar as promised by our President.
This article is an example of the anti science crowd who are planning a victory over honest science.
Ignore the plan at your own peril. Remember that restricting electricity is the first step, transportation fuels are also on the agenda next.
I don’t think anyone is underestimating the resources of the CAGW faithful and the effectiveness of their propaganda. The funding disparity is on clear display in almost every western government (except maybe for Australia, now). As for the propaganda aspect, all you have to do is look at any major news/entertainment venue to give you an idea of its pervasiveness.
You kidding? You think Oz has defunded these people? That $10bn CEFC still the rest, the Ship of Fools still have jobs and every uni is shunning Lom of Borg because it might disrupt the real $$.
Notice I added the weasel word ‘maybe’.
I’ve seen pictures of what New York will look like in a few years with water half way up the Statue of Liberty. Are these people putting their museum on stilts, or are they betting against their own propaganda?
They’ll should put it near the top of the World Trade Center and build a ferry terminal at the level they believe the water will rise too, once Greenland and Antarctica melt.
Based on the popularity of climate change books and videos I’ll bet there will be long lines. /sarc
The interactive bedwetting display could be interesting !
And what will the WUWT diorama have in it on display – any suggestions?
What WUWT diorama? If WUWT has a diorama in the ‘museum’ it’ll be in the section labeled ‘The Heretics’ and will include apocalyptic visions of hell and fate that awaits the evil deniers.
Pictures of thick- headed older people who just don’t get it (but who really DO get it,) but who are dying off and won’t be relevant for much longer.
Ps This missive is based on recent musings from the Climate Fearosphere about this very topic.
Nahhh… WUWT won’t have a diorama, but we could take up a collection to sponsor a Polar Bear petting zoo. Once we pay for the Polar Bears, ongoing expenses would be minimal.
It’s the least we can do to enhance the Climate Change Doom and Gloom experience.
H.R. +1
Yeah, Crispin, economically, it’s a no-brainer. Glad you recognized that. A little money for someone to pooper-scoop; a little money for someone to sit down once a week and send out form letters of condolences, and a little money for postage for the form letters. Admittedly, the air-conditioning expense will be a little higher than the norm for the rest of the building. But, a large part of the ongoing expenses can be offset by selling the belts, purses and electronic devices on eBay and lifting any cash out of the wallets. A modest tax-deductible charitable donation can be charged to their credit cards before the cards are returned to the next-of-kin. (Note to self: gotta train the bears not to eat the wallets.)
/Jonathon Swift-like satire
First thing you should have by the door, is a bottle of compressed co2. Crack the valve open and watch the co2 freeze as it hits the air. Then give the kids something, maybe a flower, to demonstrate the concept of frostbite at minus -109 degrees.
Or maybe a portable dry ice maker. http://www.scilogex.com/scilogex-dilvac-portable-dry-ice-maker.html
“by the door…a bottle of compressed co2. ”
Hey, a carbon sequestration demo. Great idea as long as there is plenty of ventilation…
Climate Change Theater: a media stage where self-serving actors pretend to be very concerned about imaginary threats and overact accordingly. All citizens are forced to purchase admission tickets and repeatedly told that ticket prices are going up.
“Scotty, we need more heat to the planetary forcers!”
“Cap’n Kirk, me engines can no’ take the strain!”
” Mr. Scott, can you try reversing the climate polarity?”
” Aaay Cap’n, that just might do it. But the polar modulators could rupture!”
“Shunt…warp… power…through…glacial…inhibitors”
“Captain, I JUST DON”T KNOW!”
According to Wikipedia A museum (/mjuˈziːəm/; myoo-zee-um) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.
Therefore it must be the story from ice ages past, climate changes in the past and why the next move must be towards a new ice age. It will educate about the Finger Lakes, the little ice age, research on ice cores, and the evolution of failed climate projections in the past, now historical exhibit A,B,C,D,E… on the folly of holding on to faulty models.
If not, it is not a museum.
Let ’em build it. Let ’em pour their treasure into it.
No one will visit. One more tiny lesson will be learned.
Slowly, lesson by lesson this nonsense will burn itself out.
A museum dedicated to the fact that the climate changes?
What next, a museum dedicated to the fact that the sun rises in the morning? But then of course there is Stonehenge, but that was probably built as a religious shrine for the faithful …..oh wait a minute….
Is there already a museum dedicated to gullibility?
Two I think.
One is called the “Oval Office”
The other “Congress”
Instead of “Climate Change Museum” it should be called “Climate Koolaid Repository and Bar”.
They might get a lot of traffic if they spike the Koolaid with ethanol.
Exhibit A:
A falsified temperature record from a weather station in Australia, as tampered by the BOM
Exhibit B:
An animation of Gore’s projected Arctic ice disappearance and the anomaly with reality
Exhibit C:
A hockey stick, made from a pine tree from the Yamal peninsula, together with an explanation of how this was used like a water divining rod to falsify the climate record
Exhibit D:
A model of the OCO2 satellite, with an explanation as to why it seems not to have provided much data,
Exhibit E:
An ice core drill if the type used at Vostok Station, Antarctica, with an explanation that the CO2 record seems to lag the implied temperature record.
Could be quite an interesting museum if they tried.
Such a place will require the faithful followers of the cult to try to crystallize and make manifest their key beliefs and credos. But the world has moved on since the easy years of the climate scaremongering, and so many more people are now sharp and knowledgeable about ‘the cause’ that this museum’s exhibits will not survive their scrutiny for very long. Laughing troops of schoolchildren, having fun rebelling against their would-be indoctrinators would make a satisfactory grand finale.
Back to the future
It’s a damp squib.
ahhh… please, no bad puns, I beg of you. I haven’t armored myself sufficiently in a drunken stupor, yet, to withstand the travesty of bad puns.
MoMA is not much better
http://www.museumofbadart.org/images/mobamasterworks.jpg
but MOBA is – at least they’re honest
http://www.museumofbadart.org/
So this is being run by the New York Board of Education? Will this be public funds or privately funded?
New York tops the charts in $$ spent per pupil, almost $20,000 per pupil per year (FY2013):
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-spending-per-pupil-data.html
But is ranked only 19th in the union:
http://www.alec.org/publications/report-card-on-american-education/
With a C for a grading on it’s performance, and only a 76% graduation rate:
http://www.alec.org/wp-content/uploads/RC-2014-NY.pdf
So now they’ll divert more $$ away from the students, and ask for higher taxes because the students need it (it’s for the children, you know).
Will this endeavor be Solar Powered, setting an example for the rest of us? They could possibly claim they are green because of the Indian Point Nuclear power plant that supplies NYC, but that’ll offend some of the other ‘greenies’.
It would be interesting to take a guided tour and challenge their ‘facts’.
(Think Thorium)
Oh, I forgot to add this to my post, here is a beaming example of the NYC school system in action, 11th graders reading “The Three Little Pigs”.
http://nypost.com/2015/08/06/the-city-thinks-the-three-little-pigs-is-a-book-for-high-schoolers/
Your hard earned money at work.
Even with these thought provoking reading assignments, the NYC school system has a 64% graduation rate, makes me so proud to be a NYS resident.:
http://nypost.com/2014/12/18/nycs-high-school-graduation-rate-jumps-to-64-percent/
Right! Maybe it’ll only be open on windy days (but not too windy) and during daylight hours when the sun is 30 degrees above the horizon with perfectly clear skies.
“Steeped with ambition-a word that has seen a lot of play in the climate space recently.” If they said “robust ambition”, they’d have a two-fer.
Correction: it is “Ellsworth Toohey”. Two Ls.