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.
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The ghost train or some theme park wild ride has more claim to be a museum piece than this sort of fabricated, fraudulent schlok.
I can see a reverse hockey stick happening. Attendance will peak early on then trail off as fear mongering boredom and fatigue set in and visitors return to the excitement and true educational interest of traditional museums.. I would give this Climate Mausoleum, sorry Museum, two years life at the most..
I think they will have to pay visitors to attend from the “cap and trade” taxes…I don’t think anyone will pay to enter…
It will be a glimpse of things that will never happen. Talk about fantasy.
Here’s some similar misleading AGW-in-museum from Sydney Australia. I was at the Powerhouse Museum yesterday, and took these pics. http://everist.org/pics/ph_agw/agw.htm
The entire quite extensive and apparently permanent exhibit was like that. I could have taken more pics, but it was too annoying.
At least I didn’t see the phrase “hottest year ever”. Might have if I’d looked for it.
Funny, they forgot this one:
http://www.paulmacrae.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/co2-levels-over-time1.jpg
Stupid is as stupid does — Forrest Gump
They should call it the “Great Immensity” — oh wait, that has already been taken.
It’s child abuse.
Greedy, selfish, parents are exploiters of innocence.
The parents sadly are the Obama machine’s delirious craving for dictatorship.
It would be typical of the entire scam, if it were 5c to get in and 50 dollars to get out
I suppose going to a museum of this sort is like those who think that going to a presidential legacy museum is the way to spend a day.
“Hey, kids let’s learn nothing, but, what they want us to know!”
They could include this photograph in their exhibits taken in last few days which shows snow being sculpted by melt-water in the Scottish Cairngorms. They could then put underneath it all the ridiculous comments about AGW such as the Scottish ski industry is doomed and that British children will not know what snow is
https://www.google.es/search?q=scottish+highlands&tbm=isch&imgil=N_md_JKN2qfjLM%253A%253B1vbAKFZu6auoGM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.pressandjournal.co.uk%25252Ffp%25252Fnews%25252Fhighlands%25252F316565%25252Flook-at-this-magical-snow-tunnel%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&tbs=simg:CAES3AEa2QELEKjU2AQaAggDDAsQsIynCBpgCl4IAxIovhXBFZIWuBXHDN4VwBW_1FcgMvBWzN7Q33SL9KsA3_1yryN7U3xSK2NxowKf9_1DsFqhFw_1a9y_1nG5pFJFY4smXb18qjyEkTED5L9nmfP02Q5ADBK7YY6mEW12tDAsQjq7-CBoKCggIARIEgwcjnAwLEJ3twQkaSQoXChVnZW9sb2dpY2FsIHBoZW5vbWVub24KCwoJYWR2ZW50dXJlCg8KDWV4dHJlbWUgc3BvcnQKEAoObW91bnRhaW5lZXJpbmcM&fir=N_md_JKN2qfjLM%253A%252C1vbAKFZu6auoGM%252C_&biw=1440&bih=775&usg=__CHPEgjKl7v2asFGgDOa-B1XVJ4s%3D&ved=0CEQQyjdqFQoTCKS-ucLCrccCFcs-FAodJsQM2g&ei=xXbQVeTHG8v9UKaIs9AN#imgrc=N_md_JKN2qfjLM%3A&usg=__CHPEgjKl7v2asFGgDOa-B1XVJ4s%3D
Next will be a Climate Change theme park. Among the attractions could be “Coal Trains of Death” (actually powered by coal, and belching soot and cinders) leading to houses of horror with temps cranked up to 100F, deserts, fires, and emaciated people. Then you’d have the “Trains of the Future”, run on “clean” energy (with plenty of backup power though). The possibilities are endless.
They could also have the entrance to the museum shaped like a hockey stick. Wouldn’t it be more at home in a Disney theme park? People might be put off visiting it in the snowy New York winters.
I think that this is an opportunity lost. One could imagine a wonderful museum – the Museum of Climate -(not Climate change ) which would relate the history of climate science , technology and polar and ocean exploration from Ancient China and Egypt to modern space based techniques .
Just imagine it from the viewpoint of a child: Firstly the astronomical observations in China , Mesopotamia , Egypt and the attempts to understand weather and climate so important for agricultural societies .
Then the inventions of barometers , Torricelli and the science Renaissance , the first thermometers and how accurate they were . The establishment of continuous temperature records in England and elsewhere in Europe .
Then the great era of ocean exploration , discovery of wind systems and ocean currents.
The polar explorers and their trials and achievements , the realisation of Ice ages with Agassiz and all the others and the effects these had on communities worldwide.
Finally the modern age with isotope analysis , satellite measurements , not forgetting of course the contentious subject of tree ring analysis . Then the subject of AGW and the role of CO2 could be introduced , but subjectively .
It could be one of the most exciting science museums in the world and really be for the enlightenment of the many, especially the young , whereas the proposed facility seems to be intended purely to justify the enrichment of the few.
Sorry , a mistake in the penultimate paragraph : I meant to say that the the role of CO2 to be introduced “NOT subjectively “, ie the final gallery could be laid out with the arguements for and against the role of CO2 and the existence of AGW and maybe the school children asked to judge the most convincing presentation .
A “museum” where people can go to actually learn something? What a quaint idea!
Just another Disneyland.
Well, at least future generations will be able to visit this museum and enjoy the comdey presented there. It will be renamed Museum of Comedic Ideas.
What’s the difference between a museum and an indoctrination center? Less and less.
Give it another generation and you’ll be able to take your kids to Mount Vernon and Monticello and see museums to oppression and hypocrisy “proving” the lie of everything Washington and Jefferson and their nation ever embraced. Appealing to “relevance” invites projection.
That is already happening:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/us/jefferson-jackson-dinner-will-be-renamed.html
Democrats are experts at “scrubbing” history. For some 1984 is a warning, for the Democrats it is an instruction Manual.
https://youtu.be/5wz_0utCrm0
What saddens me is that they’ll take schools here to learn.
To learn….lies…which take a very long time to unlearn (if ever).
Progressivism at its best. We are allowing these people to run our Nation, control the IPCC and determine how 12% of our GDP will be spent. Bottom line, as long as we elect people that focus on these kinds of issues we will be electing people that will waste 12% of our GDP…and never solve any of our real problems. This is why we have a president whose party blocks Nuclear Power here in the US and helps build it in Iran. This is why we have a president that blocks oil production here and promotes Iran’s oil production. That is why we have a president that ignores the poor of the inner cities and bathes progressive climate researchers in money. And these sanctimonious nitwits mock people with religious beliefs. Such deep and enlightened “thinkers.”
http://qz.com/479960/danes-and-swedes-are-fighting-about-whether-flesh-colored-band-aids-are-racist/
‘Museum: A building for the presentation of valuable or historical artefacts.’
Here are a few historical MSM clickable links they might consider in their artefact exhibits:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming2.html
This should be the first display as you enter the Museum.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4066189.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/sci_nat_enl_1102333924/img/1.jpg
During one of my trips to London, I had the pleasure of visiting the British Science Museum where, unfortunately, there was a huge new special exhibit on Climate Change….
The Climate Change exhibit was completely deserted, though millions of GBPs were obviously spent on the exhibit…
It was utterly depressing contrasting the incredible scientific ingenuity and genius displayed in other exhibits of the Science Museum to the deceit and disingeniousness of the Climate Change pavilion…
Such a display shouldn’t have even been in the Science Museum. It could have been displayed at the circus or where criminals are incarcerated–those would have been much more appropriate venues.
These graphs seem to be well published, and highlight that rarely in geologic history has it been this cool. Other than Ice Ages we are near the bottom of the temperature scale.
http://www.lakepowell.net/sciencecenter/geologic%20global%20temp.jpg
http://facweb.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/GEOG101/Study/Images/Entire_Earth_History_Record.gif
BTW, this is some of Hanson’s work.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_15/fig1.gif
Since we are talking about climate “science” it seems to me we should propose:
The Museum of Irreproducible Results … with http://www.jir.com/ as source material of course.
The Core standards of education under the Obama administration includes Next Generation Science Standards which of course include teaching the consensus storyline on climate change. Around half of the states have adopted it (Walker in Wisconsin passed legislation disallowing it). This is characteristic of t he tactics used by the administration to “nudge” – brainwash the country … through education policy on what is taught in schools. It is no different at all from Nazi propaganda minister, Herr Joseph Goebbels and German Communist Willi Münzenberg who worked with Soviet spies, perfecting the art of covert mind control via propaganda to create right-thinking people to serve the state power on the basis of what appears on the surface to be but is falsely presented as the most essential elements of human decency.’
“Climate Museum in New York City, a project that seeks to make the impacts of and solutions to a changing climate intimate and tangible.”
Museum seeks to make climate change tangible, that pretty much sums up everything you need to know.