Smithsonian ‘toned down’ climate change exhibit.
Last year, the “Smithsonian Institution toned down an exhibit on climate change in the Arctic for fear of angering Congress and the Bush administration, says a former administrator at the museum.” AP reports:
Among other things, the script, or official text, of last year’s exhibit was rewritten to minimize and inject more uncertainty into the relationship between global warming and humans, said Robert Sullivan, who was associate director in charge of exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
Also, officials omitted scientists’ interpretation of some research and let visitors draw their own conclusions from the data, he said. In addition, graphs were altered “to show that global warming could go either way,” Sullivan said.
UPDATE: The website for the exhibit, which closed in November.
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Why does AP use the term “global warming”? It’s not accurate at all. It’s climate change. Is AP the right-wing media shill?
May 21st, 2007 at 4:08 pmIntimidation is one of Karl’s favorite tools. I’ll bet Karl is fond of extortion and blackmail, too.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:09 pmNice to see the Smithsonian sold out. They were worried about any federal funding I see.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:09 pmWell, it’s a good thing it closed in November, because I’d like to think it would have angered THIS Congress. It certainly is an abomination to lie about science to please religious fanatics.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:15 pmSmithsonian removes electric-car exhibit
Jun 23, 2006
-Just weeks before the release of a movie about the death of the electric car from the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution removed its EV1 electric sedan from display.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:21 pmBy the way, Lawrence Small, former top official of the Smithsonian, resigned amid scandal at the end of March 2007.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:26 pmMeanwhile the Moron Magnet opens next week in Cinncinnati. Another victories for the anti-science coalition!
May 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pmTime to cancel the Smithsonian subscription. When I want fiction I’ll go to the comics, thanks, or the Grand Canyon guide for fundies.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:38 pmScientific institution, or just another fucking whore? Apparently the WH cut all the string off the soap-on a-rope over there to keep them bending over for more.
Did I say I’m disgusted?
They can use tax dollars to present humans cause GCC as fact as soon as it becomes fact and not theory.
Global Climate Change is real. The cause is undetermined.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:44 pmWhy does AP use the term “global warming� It’s not accurate at all. It’s climate change. Is AP the right-wing media shill?
Comment by Badmoodman — May 21, 2007 @ 4:08 pm
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Oh come on… Not everyone who calls it Global Warming is working for the Bush Administration. Global Warming is, unfortunately the popular term. Scientists and maybe even politicians might start calling it Global Climate Change, but the man on he street will still say Global Warming, even when they’re stocking up on blankets for a long winter.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pmThey didn’t want to have another debacle like they did in 1999 when they showed the Washington Monument partially submerged by the Atlantic. An unfortunate exhibit that tainted their credibility, they didn’t want to repeat.
IPCC Author, Richard Alley, doesn’t think anything significant was removed.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:48 pmYeah, it can go either way… totally south or completely west.
>> Meanwhile the Moron Magnet opens next week in Cinncinnati.
Welcome to Obscurantism. It’s safe here.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:49 pmseems to be bad news all around today…the war spending bill, Congress having to ask Texas if AG broke the law (to which the reply will be “no”)… now this
losing my faith in the U.S. daily
May 21st, 2007 at 5:08 pmGlobal Climate Change is real. The cause is undetermined.
Comment by hacker bob
Global Warming is real. One of the major causes is humankind.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:41 pmFor shame, Smithsonian.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:47 pmThe earth is flat. It’s Clinton’s fault and maybe Pelosi’s too.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:49 pmIt’s so nice too see a fine organization like the Smithsonian taking some responsibility for the information found in their exhibits.
Keep up the great work fellas!
May 21st, 2007 at 5:59 pmWhat is next? Does the dinasour exhibit contain an explaination that evolution is only a theory? Some of you should check out the U.S. Geological Survey. I am afraid that Bush and the gang has reached that once fine organization as well. When I want the latest information on ‘the big melt’, I read the British Geological Survey.
May 21st, 2007 at 7:28 pmYou would think the Smithsonian were owned by Rupert Murdoch. Congratulations on the censorship, Mr. President. I know you love that.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:35 pmThis is hardly surprising.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:52 pmAs I subscribe to Smithsonian magazine, I notice one important name at the top of the ol’ masthead: one Richard B. Cheney.
You don’t think that might be important in this discussion, would you?
Not to mention a John G. Roberts, Jr. as well.
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May 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm