The Science Museum is revising the contents of its new climate science gallery to reflect the wave of scepticism that has engulfed the issue in recent months.
The decision by the 100-year-old London museum reveals how deeply scientific institutions have been shaken by the public’s reaction to revelations of malpractice by climate scientists.
The museum is abandoning its previous practice of trying to persuade visitors of the dangers of global warming. It is instead adopting a neutral position, acknowledging that there are legitimate doubts about the impact of man-made emissions on the climate.
Even the title of the £4 million gallery has been changed to reflect the museum’s more circumspect approach. The museum had intended to call it the Climate Change Gallery, but has decided to change this to Climate Science Gallery to avoid being accused of presuming that emissions would change the temperature.
I said she was a bottle genie.
h/t maz2
// Professor Rapley, a climate scientist and former director of the British Antarctic Survey research centre, said that the museum needed to remain neutral in order to be trusted: “The Science Museum will not state a position on whether or not climate change is real, driven by humans or threatening.” //
Later on he says that his own personal opinion is irrelevant.
I think Dante has an opinion on this sort of posture. And it’s definitely a warming one.
and on wired today…
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/geoengineering-asilomar/
Yeah, just what we need a bunch of social engineering scientists trying to do weather engineering too. What could possibly go wrong?
I guess it was either that, or install central heating.
This at least appears to be a start in the right direction.
Thanks Kate for facilitating the exposure of this AGW fraud.
P.S. Don’t forget to make sure everything is functioning so that you can turn it on for earth day.
Truly un-beh-eff-in-leave-a-bull !!!
The little Gal from Delisle beats up the “big” boys !
Sucks to be Jeffrey Simpson, David Suzuki, Mike De Souza, Peter Mansbridge, James Hansen, Mike Hockey Stick and of course that ‘Biggest Guy’ of all – All Gore, all the time.
AGW will be a turning point for the world’s media. A milestone of the same magnitude as the printing press invention – only in the other direction 🙂
Kate, link more to your sda archives. As this one proves, sda links are more worthy than a lot of Canada’s MSM drivel. (drivel at best, outright fraud a better description)
For those that need a reminder, the Bing search page notes that the Nature of Things “star” was born today in 1936. Back to Google for now to recover from mind picture of Dr Fruitfly. What a choice.
The global warming marxists will follow the usual path for their ilk when their fables wreck on reality. A six months hiatus while a party committee conference somewhere sorts out the obscuring words for the new dialectic. Should be ready for the 2010 MSM summer heatwave reporting season if there even is one, Karl willing.
This commenter understands the left-liberal mindset.
It’s a natural progression/regression of the left:
Shut Ann Coulter down.
“BUT, this could be the opening shot by AGW advocates to attempt to shut down free speech.”
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” James F. Evans (09:55:34) :
I don’t think the complaint will go anywhere…
BUT, this could be the opening shot by AGW advocates to attempt to shut down free speech.
Warmists can’t win on the science, so now they go into repression.
Tyranny & intimidation to impose their world-view.
A sign of desperation? Yes.
It must rejected, put down and exposed for what it is — intellectual repression.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/24/complaint-issued-on-amazongate-reporting/#comments
ron in kelowna, are you saying that morons shouldn’t have jobs?
See, this is the source of most of the problem.
Even idiots need to work.
So where do we put them?
What’s that old adage? “A” people hire other “A” people. “B” people hire “C” people…
Calling for a “fair debate” is the new fall-back position. There really isn’t a debate, they’re simply stalling. I believe this will be won or lost on the American Senate floor.
IMO calling for a fair debate is analogous to the “bad guy” wrestler begging for mercy after beating the “good guy” down with foreign objects for the good part of an hour. On their hands and knees begging “please don’t hurt me” all the while waiting for you to turn your back so they can gain the upper hand again.
Kate, you make us all proud:)
Well, now islands are just disappearing due to rising sea levels…..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100324/ap_on_sc/as_india_disappearing_island
“Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place”
And what place would that be?
It’s well worth taking a great explorer of the past as their example. Just report facts without trying to foment climate hysteria:
Ernest H. Shackleton, The Heart of the Antarctic (1909), vol. 1, at viii:
The mystery of the Great Ice Barrier has not been solved, and it would seem that the question of its formation and extent cannot be determined definitely until an expedition traces the line of the mountains round its southerly edge. A certain amount of light has been thrown on the construction of the Barrier, in that we were able, from observations and measurements, to conclude provisionally that it is composed mainly of snow. The disappearance of Balloon Bight, owing to the breaking away of a section of the Great Ice Barrier, shows that the Barrier still continues its recession, which has been observed since the voyage of Sir James Ross in 1842…
allan, if I may.
The rightful place of science is the discovery of physical truths, not promotion of political agendas.
Changing the sign to Climate Science Gallery is a reflection of that reality.
Why didn’t they adopt a “neutral position” before?
If they think their credibility has waned, they themselves are to blame for it.
Good thing for them they are not in Canada as David Suzuki would have them jailed.
Thanks for your part and hard work in this, Kate.
BTW, The ClimateGate Links under Best of SDA needs help. No hurry; at your leisure.
You must get some tremendous sense of vindication over all the hard work you put in against this insanity Kate? I sure would after 3 years of serious research & publishing!
To bad you weren’t paid for it. Your investigations where the best I’ve found online. Including on blogs where this was the single issue .
“National Association of Scholars takes climategate perps and their apologists to task, saying their distorted work has let down all scholars”
http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/
>>> “Here it is presented by an anonymous Canadian writer who hosts a blog called “Deep Climate” devoted to attacking “the climate science ‘skeptic’ movement in Canada.””
The report is dated March 16, 2010. How was this missed?
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Climategate Deniers
March 16, 2010 By Peter Wood
Proponents of the theory of man-made global warming have been discomforted by the revelations beginning in late November that some members of the scientific community engaged in dubious conduct that reached the level of misleading the public. They reported data that has since proved to be missing or non-existent; they devised mathematical algorithms that turned statistical noise into supposedly meaningful graphs; they erased deep discrepancies; they selectively omitted findings at odds with their own; and conspired to withhold documents they were legally obligated to share with researchers who had properly requested them; they sought to prevent the publication of scientific work that contradicted their favored hypotheses; and they sought to damage journals that accommodated that work.
All of this mischief was clear within a few days of the unauthorized release of the emails and computer code from the Climate Research Center at the University of East Anglia. But in the weeks and months since, the picture of how proponents of the man-made global warming theory have abused “climate science” has only worsened. Most conspicuously, a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has proven to be riddled with claims presented as “scientific findings” that turn out to be little more than wild conjectures by advocacy groups or, in some cases, unsubstantiated claims by eccentric individuals. Other data—such as “tree rings” research and the locations of Chinese weather stations where temperature measurements were located—have been deliberately kept hidden or conveniently lost.
This cascade of news about the dubious foundations of a theory has registered profoundly with many in the scientific community and it has also shocked public opinion, which is now turning away from general assent with the theory and becoming instead conspicuously skeptical. But shock and dismay are not the only possible reactions.” (more)
http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=1214
Al Gore’s Weather (AGW): Peer Review.
Round up the Lawd’s link to “Shell”. Shell? Big Oil? AG’wan.
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“Oops: Chief Climategate investigator failed to declare eco directorship
‘Dracula’s in charge of the blood bank’
Exclusive The peer leading the second Climategate enquiry at the University of East Anglia serves as a director of one of the most powerful environmental networks in the world, according to Companies House documents – and has failed to declare it.
Lord Oxburgh, a geologist by training and the former scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, was appointed to lead the enquiry into the scientific aspects of the Climategate scandal on Monday. But Oxburgh is also a director of GLOBE, the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment.
GLOBE may be too obscure to merit its own Wikipedia entry, but that belies its wealth and influence. It funds meetings for parliamentarians worldwide with an interest in climate change, and prior to the Copenhagen Summit GLOBE issued guidelines (pdf) for legislators. Little expense is spared: in one year alone, one peer – Lord Michael Jay of Ewelme – enjoyed seven club class flights and hotel accommodation, at GLOBE’s expense. There’s no greater love a Parliamentarian can give to the global warming cause. And in return, Globe lists Oxburgh as one of 23 key legislators.
In the House of Lords Register of Lords’ Interests, Oxburgh lists under remunerated directorships his chairmanship of Falck Renewables, and chairmanship of Blue NG, a renewable power company. (Oxburgh holds no shares in Falck Renewables, and serves as a non-exec chairman.) He also declares that he is an advisor to Climate Change Capital, to the Low Carbon Initiative, Evo-Electric, Fujitsu, and an environmental advisor to Deutsche Bank. For a year he was non-exec chairman of Shell.” (more)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/24/climategate_oxburgh_globe/
Must be a boomer with literary affinities; uses Latinate words, e.g., “propagate”.
Couldn’t be a reporter.
Maybe a Friend of CBC.
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“Deep Climate”
“About”
“Welcome to Deep Climate, an exploration of the climate science “skeptic” movement in Canada. I look at the organizations that propagate climate science disinformation and the public relations professionals who have worked behind the scenes to ensure maximum impact of that disinformation. I try both to “follow the money” (flowing primarily from special interests opposed to regulation or taxation of greenhouse gas emissions) and to “follow the science” (by exposing the most egregious flaws in the “evidence” against the attribution ofcontemporary climate change primarily to human causes). From time to time, I’ll also “follow the politics” and examine the various ties between the “skeptic” movement and the Conservative Party of Canada.”
“I am a Canadian citizen residing in Canada. For private and professional reasons, I prefer to remain anonymous to the general public, at least for now.
The following facts may be relevant, however:
* I am a volunteer contributor to SourceWatch.org, an online encyclopedia.
* I have no affiliation or membership in any political party.
* I have received no financial or other consideration for writing this blog or related activities, all of which were done on my own time.
* I have identified myself at all times in my private correspondence with other individuals, who include various principals involved in the topics to be presented here.”
http://deepclimate.org/about/
Well, now islands are just disappearing due to rising sea levels…..
So your contention is that the world’s oceans stayed at one level for the entire length of this planet’s history, until the start of the Industrial Revolution?
Defying gravity, the ocean level is rising only in the bay of Bengal. Who woulda thunk it.
Defying gravity, the ocean level is rising only in the Bay of Bengal. Gee, who woulda thunk it?
Defying gravity, the ocean level is rising only in the Bay of Bengal. Gee, who woulda thunk it?
Sorry for the multiple post. I was beginning to think that something in by post was being rejected by the filter. Perhaps ‘gravity’? 🙂