The Science Museum exhibition in question is sponsored by Shell, one of the biggest oil companies in the world and one of the most controversial multinationals.
Yesterday The Times reported plans by the Science Museum to change the name of its exhibition on climate change in response to a perceived increase in public scepticism about the science of global warming.
The report said that:
“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.”
Museum director, Professor Chris Rapley, told The Times:
“The Science Museum will not state a position on whether or not climate change is real, driven by humans or threatening.”
This was quickly seized upon by the most prominent climate denial websites.
Left Foot Forward now understands that the exhibition in question is sponsored by Shell, one of the biggest oil companies in the world and one of the most controversial multinationals in large part due to its climate wrecking practises and disinformation campaigns about climate science.
In the United States, Shell is part of the American Petroleum Institute, the organisation leading the campaign to peddle anti-science propaganda, and to orchestrate “astroturfing” “fake grassroots” campaigns against Obama’s clean energy reforms and the regulation of greenhouse gases.
In Canada, Shell is producing tar sands – the dirtiest oil there is, whilst here it is pulling out of renewable schemes. You have to ask: Is the Science Museum really representing the real scientific community, or pandering to the wishes of their corporate sponsors?
48 Responses to “Science Museum climate sceptic exhibition sponsored by Big Oil”
Kyra Ings
RT @josiefraser: Science Museum climate sceptic exhibition sponsored by Shell RT @hannahnicklin RT @chris_coltrane: http://bit.ly/9aZ6d1
Ving Faction
Science Museum climate sceptic exhibition sponsored by Big Oil http://j.mp/bvRGKi
karen harvill
RT @hannahnicklin: Science Museum renames climate change exhibition, a "neutral" position. Oh, it's sponsored by Shell http://bit.ly/9aZ6d1
Josh
Oh behave you silly boys. Oil companies have funded environmental causes too. The Guardian’s Environment page is sponsored by Shell. But you have to remember, rational, objective science does not matter to the global warming alarmists. The universities do not give research grants to sceptics. It is all piled into those ‘who believe.’ We have to get our funding from somwhere, and if an oil company is allowed to fund global cooling deniers, they should be able to fund anthropogenic climate change sceptics. You claim to campaign against media manipulation, so I assume you campaign against manipulation of data. When one of the most important climate change research centres is manipulating data, and the IPCC is admitting errors left, right and centre, how can we trust you corrupt morons?
Richard Trillo
RT @leftfootfwd: Science Museum climate sceptic exhibition sponsored by Big Oil: http://bit.ly/dwcVEf <Eurrgh, depressing and sickening