NC Museum Of Natural Sciences Refuses To Screen Doc On Climate & Coastal Development

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RALEIGH — Triangle residents will get three chances this week to see a documentary film about coastal development and climate change that the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences declined to show last fall.

Environmentalists said that the museum’s decision not to screen “Shored Up” was political, since the museum is funded by the state and conservative lawmakers have been hostile to climate change science.

Museum officials responded that the documentary was simply not a full enough look at the issues and noted that the topic was hardly something they were squeamish about. The museum has exhibits examining climate change and sea-level science.

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As he was filming, though, North Carolina lawmakers began considering allowing groins. They also proposed a law to restrict the use of scientific models for sea-level predictions in guiding state policy on development. Many climate change experts ridiculed that as bad science, and it was mocked on “The Colbert Report.” The film explores those issues. Kalina said he hadn’t expected to be banned by a museum. “I tried really hard to make a film that wasn’t about finding heroes and villains, just saying this is what’s going on in our environmental, how we’re seeing sea level rise and how we’re dealing with it,” he said.

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/03/3588875/film-on-coastal-development-and.html

[lunasun]

1. yes if you ignore it hide it it will just go away

[unhappycamper]

2. It will - under water. n/t

[marions ghost]

3. Pathetic

--from a formal statement the museum’s director, Emlyn Koster, originally released in November.

In part, it said: “For contemporary issues that connect science with societal innovations and environmental stewardship, the most constructive role for this museum is to be an engaging venue with multiple resources and views. It would be a disservice to the people of North Carolina who generously funded the construction of the Museum, and who are joined by other visitors from all other U.S. states and numerous other countries, if we were to maintain that showing one organization’s film constituted a comprehensive approach to an issue as significant and complex as sea level science.”

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