"Feeling the Heat: The Climate Challenge" opens to the general public at the Birch Aquarium this weekend. I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Donor and VIP opening reception last night. I hadn't been very involved with the exhibit since the conceptual design stage, which was last Fall. In the Winter an out-of-house team of designers and fabricators were brought in to help out, because we were way behind schedule. But more on design and such in a near future post. In short, I was really impressed by how the exhibit came together. You should go check it out for yourself.
In this photo you can see the iconic Keeling Curve in an exhibit; the data set that demonstrates that CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been achieving record high levels, higher than ever before in history, even when taking the extremes of natural fluctuations into consideration. You may have seen this graph featured in The Inconvenient Truth. Keeling happens to be a scientist at SIO, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the research of which the Birch interprets for the public. So, for many reasons, it was important that this graph have a impressive presence.
Next week, I'll park myself in the exhibit with my nice camera, and I'll get some pics of the exhibits I had a hand in designing. Stay tuned...
2 comments:
Speaking of the Inconvenient Truth - does the timing of Al Gore's presentation at UCSD this Monday have anything to do with the opening of the Climate Change exhibit?
The plan was for the Climate exhibit opening to coincide with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Report release. That was within the last few months. So I don't know if Al Gore's being in La Jolla is a convenient coincidence or planned so that he could see the new Climate exhibit.
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