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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“While most plans are preliminary, one of Massie’s hopes is for an initial pop-up installation on Governors Island next summer.”
Open in the summer and set the thermostat to 85 F inside. “Pop up installations” sounds like they want the construction to go up quickly in the spring and summer, so they don’t have a long construction period, and have to suffer the indignation of having a “Coming Soon: Global Warming Museum” sign up through winter with people stumbling through snow banks and scoffing at their sign, generating months of skeptical backlash before they even open.
Oh great, another irrelevant, expensive “amenity”….forget the roads and other infrastructure. *Rolls eyes*
and addressing current day poverty
In 2009 my wife and I had a wonderful trip with our caravan around the western half of Australia. While in traveling through Western Australia, I attended Scitech, the science museum in Perth.
It was school holiday time in WA and the museum had hundreds of school aged kids participating in a variety of activities.
One exhibit, however, was nothing more than global warming propaganda. It had lots of faked pictures of climate disasters including Perth drowning due to sea level rise.
My personal favourite was a supposed future news broadcast showing executives of coal companies being tried for crime against humanity.
My disgust was mitigated, however, when I noticed not one kid paid even the slightest notice to the exhibit. I had the entire place completely to myself.
It gave me renewed hope in our future and reminded me of the innate common sense of most people, particularly young people.
There should be an exhibit that includes a satellite (Nasa may be able to provide a model for display purposes) stevenson screen, radiosondes, thermometer, and argo buoys together with a sample of their outputs so that future generations can see how impirical data is gathered.
Not sure if it’s still there but the Edinburgh science museum used to have an advert for windturbines (and associated global warming propaganda) attached to a vintage steam loco exhibit.
New York like other great cities has become bubbles of isolated political and ethnic/social demographic areas. It is passed off as the most diverse city on the face on the planet. In reality Manhattan has changed. It’s all about their own politics of those who mostly live there. They are ahead of the curve yet they are the only ones who see things this way for the most part. The art scene is not the same. Almost everybody that lives there has just moved there in the last 4 years. They are moving to Brooklyn now but the immigrant and working class communities realize the absurdness of these people. The real New York is on the outer boroughs now. Thank good for immigrants. I have been to Ripley’s Believe it or Not. i don’t need to go to new York for that.
I will have to add that to the bucket list of museums I should visit before I die, right after Italy’s Museo della Merda in Castelbosco.
Can’t wait to see the Failed Predictions exhibit.
A large and growing hall, to be sure.
This is not really any different from the creation museum.
http://creationmuseum.org/
Not designed to demonstrate science but rather to push a faith.
Unless this has been in the works for a while it could take them 2 years to get permits to build. NYC and the surrounding areas are a bureaucratic nightmare and more about who you know and who you pay off. NYC also only allows union workers and they’re only allowed to do so much per day. I’m interested in seeing if they can pull this off in 2 years but uninterested in seeing the exhibition.
Do they offer season passes? and do UN staff get free passes?