On our recent vacation to Puerto Rico, we visited two scientific sites and their respective museums.

The Arecibo observatory is the worlds largest radio telescopes, and one of the oldest. It is an amazing facility, with a huge dish antenna built into a  sink-hole, with 900 tons on scientific equipment suspended at the antenna feed point.

The associated museum makes sure you get the right environmental attitude. Even though the facility is a telescope for looking deep into space, early on, the exhibits make sure you know how man is despoiling the planet, and how our CO2 emissions are a major cause. So much for science.

We also visited the El Yunque National Rain Forest, a lush biological site on a mountain on the East end of the island. Sure enough, the museum gave the standard line about how we are despoiling the earth, with CO2 as one of the issues. They didn’t mention that one cause of rain forest depletion is ill conceived alternative energy measures (especially Brazil’s ethanol fuels program).

As one with an active interest in science, I have visited a number of facilities in recent years. Whether it is an NSF funded observatory or an ordinary university research center, there is always one or more displays about “climate change.”

I don’t know about you, but I find the ubiquity of government propaganda on this subject to be worrying, and the assertions of “settled science” at all of these scientific institutions to be a terrible corruption of the authority of science.

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