Climate change comes to Manhattan - The Weather Guys - USATODAY.com

Planning a visit to the Big Apple in the next few months? The American Museum of Natural History wants to give you a "warm" welcome, in a new exhibit that aims to demystify climate change.

"Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future" opens Saturday Oct. 18 and will allow visitors to "intelligently engage in the public debate," says co-curator Edmond Mathez.
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"We thought it was a bad idea to pile on potentially depressing facts and not say what they can do until they’re … worn out at the end," says co-curator and Princeton University geosciences professor Michael Oppenheimer.

Depressing facts? Well, the exhibit certainly shows the domino effect of global warming, from melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and stronger hurricanes, to more intense heat waves, drought, and wildfires.
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(Photo: A diorama of a large polar bear reduced to foraging through a garbage dump is a graphic illustration of how polar bears will be forced to invade human-populated areas in response to the dwindling of their habitat. Courtesy American Museum of Natural History.)