By Mike Bastasch
For the next month, pedestrians walking through New York City’s five boroughs will see flashing road signs warning those walking by of the alleged dangers of man-made global warming.
“Climate denial kills,” “Abolish Coal-Onialism,” “50,000,000 Climate Refugees” and “End climate injustice” are just some of the warnings passersby will see as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s effort to sound the alarm on global warming.
De Blasio’s office teamed up with the Climate Museum as part of a campaign called “Climate Signals” to put up road signs with warnings that were designed by artist Justin Brice Guariglia.
“When you see a traffic sign, your pulse quickens a little and you know you have to be on the alert for a changing condition that could affect your safety,” Climate Museum Director Miranda Massie told Yale Climate Connections on Wednesday.
The Climate Museum raised the money to put up the signs, so the climate advocacy campaign comes at no cost to the city, according to de Blasio’s office.
“The signs were provided at no cost to the city, the Museum raised all the funds themselves,” de Blasio spokesman Seth Stein told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
De Blasio has made fighting global warming a centerpiece of his administration. The Democratic mayor embarked on a campaign to divest city pensions of fossil fuel assets earlier this year and simultaneously filed suit against five major oil companies over global warming.
However, a federal judge tossed out New York City’s climate lawsuit in July. De Blasio brought on trial lawyers to handle the city’s suit against oil companies in exchange for a percentage of any winnings from the case.
Media outlets also criticized de Blasio’s climate suit in light of his well-known travel habits. The mayor “regularly rides around town in an SUV,” a New York Times writer pointed out, and the New York Observer called de Blasio an “Imperial Hypocrite” for the fleet of SUVs he takes to the gym every week.
City officials appear to have worked closely with climate activists for the Climate Signals exhibit. “[T]en sites were picked by the Parks Department to specifically emphasize an area’s vulnerability to climate change,” Gothamist reported Tuesday.
Museum officials say the goal of the campaign is to use art to educate the public about global warming. At least one NASA climate scientist and experts from other fields will stand by road signs on Saturday to answer questions people have about global warming, according to reports.
“I think that that connection is a brilliant one to make: putting words about climate into a format that automatically triggers a heightened sense of alert and a need, urgently, to pay attention,” Massie said.
The Climate Museum is following an approach to global warming propaganda pushed by Yale Climate Connections in a 2015 article, according to the university group. Road signs will also display climate warnings in multiple languages.
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I wonder how long it will be before somebody “repurposes” those signs with a new message. – Anthony
Climate Alarmism Kills Brain Cells
By putting these nonsense messages on the flashing road signs they are training drivers to ignore the signs.
That will be bad news the next time they actually have something important to convey.
How many pedestrians are going to have to walk in the street in order to get past these sidewalk blockages?
If climate denialism kills, then it’s pretty obvious that killing climate denialists is just a form of self defense.
You know that there are plenty of left wing nut cases that will make that connection.
The signs themselves are a traffic hazard.
Is there a dumber A hole in USA politics than De Blasio ? Ok after Watters and Booker Spartacus ?
We must stop coal- onanism now!
LOL
They have a problem with onions now?
Man this is serious!
Oh………
Put up some signs with climate facts that might make a few think and, God forbid….look it up on-line and read about it. Such as “Heating precedes CO2 rise in ice core samples.” “30,000+ polar bears today, 5,000 in 1955” “Geologic record show vastly higher CO2 levels in past…no run away warming then.” etc.
Its really incredible this insane situation is a reality…are people really this stupid? Or am I missing something?
How about “If this sign is underwater, climate change concerns may be justified”.
Living in an office is bad enough, but who wants to live in a museum?
I must be getting young, or something.
Please someone daily hang a banner under each sign:
“but the truth is at wuwt.com”
“At least one NASA climate scientist . . . will stand by road signs on Saturday to answer questions”.
Does the Trump administration know about this?
I’m not a US citizen but I hope someone there reports this wast of US Federal money.
If NASA claim it’s done in private time, they can’t use NASA’s credentials.
This is (likely) another example of NASA activism, not science.
From the article: “Road signs will also display climate warnings in multiple languages.”
Of course. We can’t have illegal aliens being unaware of the climate change danger they face in New York City. We have to warn them in their own language.
I feel sorry for the person who will need to stand next to the sign doing the mandatory sign language.
They will be able to use these signs to warn of early snowfalls and road icing hazards.
Just keep on repeating the same message over and over again, after a while it will become the truth.
thatt worked in Germany from 1930 to 1945, and we all know what resulted from that, WW2.
MJE
Climate Denial Kills.
How?
What does it kill? Boondoggle conferences?
Pseudoscience university programs and research?
I understand these things can be hacked quite easily.
Not that I have ever been bored enough to try, but my understanding is the tricky part is unlocking the access panel.
Once inside I believe they have all the right protection of a whiteboard. They are designed to be rented out after all, any complex password protection system only complicates the matter.
Hacked meaning, literally, hacked open with a suitable device like an axe or bolt cutters. To cut the link from the stupid box to the display panel.
And the great thing is, if you get caught, you just call it YOUR art (i.e., graffiti isn’t vandalism, its ART).
What are they going to do? DENY that it is art?
They don’t really have much track record in recognizing art, do they?
So when is DeBlasio going to demand a cessation of all fossil fuel use in New York City? At least it would solve the traffic congestion problem.
I am a climate denier. If climate denial kills, how can I use it to do in warmunists?
“The Climate Museum raised the money to put up the signs, so the climate advocacy campaign comes at no cost to the city, according to de Blasio’s office.”
Don’t they charge for street advertising in NYC? Seems like an opportunity cost.
“…with warnings that were designed by artist Justin Brice Guariglia”
Designed?
Someone needs to design three word slogans?
No. Someone needs to be PAID to design three word slogans.
You know, so he can be called an “artist”. Otherwise, its just someone making up three word slogans. And we can’t possibly have THAT. I mean, unemployed artists are dangerous. Maybe not as dangerous as unemployed soldiers but we can only use so many baristas.
Seriously, I was a semi-pro photographer for a while. Found out that you can’t just make a photo. No, you have to EXPLAIN what the photo means (to every potential buyer…you learn to read your audience).
Luckily, there’s an app (or 2) for that:
https://www.artybollocks.com/generator.html
http://500letters.org/
http://10gallon.com/statement2000/
Climate Museum ? They actually have a Climate Museum? Who is paying for that?
old construction worker
Apparently so.
It’s full of hot air.
I deny we have a climate! It doesn’t exist and has never existed! Mwahahah!!
Don’t they have an Adverising Standards Authority in New York? Should be banned on the grounds of blatant falsity.
I hope someone amends the image by replacing CLIMATE with GRAVITY. Now that would be true.
Questioning political orthodoxy kills? I think that’s been used before – since the days of witch doctors and medicine men. Try running your city, Bill.