New exhibit from London Science Museum:
New interactive gallery. New immersive experience. Step into a whole new world and explore the science of our changing climate…
Opens 4 December
Visit the atmosphere gallery, a new and exciting way to make sense of our climate – the science of how it works, what it’s doing now and what it might do next.
• Explore atmosphere’s immersive ‘gallery world’ with its own land, oceans, ice – and look up to discover its changing atmosphere.
• Take control with Interconnected Earth’s five fast games and watch the world react around you.
• Travel back in time to explore landscapes shaped by climates from long ago or wonder at the secrets in our Antarctic ice core – then take a virtual trip to 2051.
• Get stuck into the science – explore Earth’s energy balance and follow carbon on its travels.
• Discover how hydrogen-powered cars and energy-generating paving slabs could help us to choose a low-carbon life…More than a hands-on gallery, atmosphere reveals some of the key instruments used by today’s scientists, reports on some of the latest climate science news, and gives you the chance to dig deeper into the story of the science behind our changing climate.
Wow, climate change will be really exciting!!
Well anyway … if the major science institutions don't appreciate how much the pursuit of knowledge itself is being politicized and demonized … they need to wake up.
And where has the Boston MOS's big climate change exhibit been? Is the issue not important enough? Does the public not need to be informed? Is public knowledge of this most critical issue currently adequate?
What's the plan, MOS?
Amusing to see the perpetuation of myths here…
You know, I notice you’ve used “Huh?” as the subject for 5 of your last 7 comments. And I notice that you don’t really provide any factual weight to your commentary, with links to reliable sources, or even any arguable points.
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p>I suspect that’s because you don’t care to expound on the “perpetuation of myths” here, because you’d get your ass handed to you, factually.
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p>I guess I’m saying that you’ve got absolutely no game, Topper.
Wouldn’t even attempt to match the intellectual depth on display here daily… Coming to this site is like going to the zoo – lots of strange creatures thankfully behind bars and not allowed to mix with the larger society.
My kids are older and we haven’t been in a while, but the last time I went, the general exhibits were really worn out. The lighting show didn’t work and the whole math room could use a revamp.
I was just there a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t help but notice that the math room had a timeline of “Mathematicians Through The Ages”… and the timeline ended in 1960. Apparently nothing has happened in math in the last 50 years. Sorry, Andrew Wiles, I guess you don’t count.
Last time I went to the Museum, they had a great exhibit on renewable energy. And having the wind turbine lab on the roof should provide a great opportunity for more. Though an exhibit focused on climate science would be good to develop, of course.
Why is renewable energy even important/necessary?