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Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film

Posted by Unknown on from the i'm-not-listening-i'm-not-listening dept.

sciencehabit writes "A premier science museum in North Carolina has sparked controversy by refusing to show an hour long film about climate change and rising sea levels. The museum may be in a bit of a delicate position. It is part of a state agency, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The state government has been perceived as hostile to action on climate change; last year, the legislature passed a bill forbidding the state coastal commission from defining rates of sea-level rise for regulation before 2016."

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  1. Fixed summary for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "A premier science museum in North Carolina has sparked controversy by refusing to show an hour long film about climate change and rising sea levels and 'mocks North Carolina politicians'. The museum may be in a bit of a delicate position because residents of a state don't enjoy having their state made fun of."

    1. Re:Fixed summary for you by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The museum may be in a bit of a delicate position because residents of a state don't enjoy having their state made fun of."

      Oh, because the politicians are "the state"? We shouldn't question our elites? Nice servitude attitude you got going on there.

      Maybe it being banned has something to do with those same politicians having their hand in the till of the yearly multi-million dollar campaign to sell climate science denial. Forget facts. Forget science. Yay for forum shills, newspaper and television paid climate science denial.

      At least we will know who to persecute with extreme prejudice if (when?) climate chaos ends up killing millions.

  2. In the USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Climate change being real or not is completely irrevelant. We're NOT going to do anything about it. No way no how. Until it's a major serious problem that might impact someones cashflow. Until then. And it can be proven that it will cost some rich people some money... Until then. We're not going to do shit except scream 'it's not real i cant hear you'. So just stop with the storys about it. You're causing global warming with the wasted energy it took to type the story in.

    Willful ignorance. We haz it. It's standard policy too.

    1. Re:In the USA by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "But ... But Florida will be under water!" cry the anti-climate change zealots. I can live with that. There's nothing but retirees, crazies, and scientologists down there anyway.

      Um, won't they all leave Florida and go to live near you...?

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  3. How are we going to hold off the sea? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    the legislature passed a bill forbidding the state coastal commission from defining rates of sea-level rise for regulation before 2016.

    They really ought to keep the sea in check right now. Without regulation, it's free to rise however fast it damn well pleases until 2016.

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