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> From today's NYT and the full text of the letter, below.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/science/science-museums-urged-to-cut
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> Dozens of climate scientists and environmental groups are calling for 
> museums of science and natural history to “cut all ties” with fossil 
> fuel companies and philanthropists like the Koch brothers.
>
> Aletter
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> on Tuesday asserts that such money is tainted by these donors’ efforts 
> to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus onclimate change 
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> “When some of the biggest contributors toclimate change 
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> funders of misinformation on climate science sponsor exhibitions in 
> museums of science and natural history, they undermine public 
> confidence in the validity of the institutions responsible for 
> transmitting scientific knowledge,” the letter states. “This corporate 
> philanthropy comes at too high a cost.”
>
> Continue reading the main story
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>     RELATED COVERAGE
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>     Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate ResearcherFEB.
>     21,
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> The letter does not mention specific companies, but it does nameDavid 
> H. Koch 
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> who sits on the boards of the American Museum of Natural History in 
> New York and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and 
> has given tens of millions of dollars to those institutions.
>
> Koch Industries is a privately held corporation with subsidiaries in 
> energy and other industries. Mr. Koch and his family have funded 
> conservative causes, including scientists and organizations that 
> contest the role of humans in climate change.
>
> Public records show that many fossil-fuel companies have madesimilar 
> contributions 
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> to such organizations and scientists over the years.
>
> The letter is a project ofthe Natural History Museum 
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> a mobile museum that draws attention to “social and political forces 
> that shape nature yet are left out of traditional natural history 
> museums,” said its co-founder and director, Beka Economopoulos.
>
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> also released on Tuesday and sponsored by environmental organizations 
> includingGreenpeace 
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> urges the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History to 
> “Kick Koch off the board!”
>
> Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University and 
> signer of the letter, said the donors seek a halo they do not deserve.
> “Cloaked in the garb of civic-mindedness, they launder their image 
> while simultaneously and covertly influencing the content offered by 
> those institutions,” he said.
>
> Eric Wohlschlegel, a spokesman for theAmerican Petroleum Institute 
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> letter because he had not seen it.
>
> Allegations that contributions from donors like Mr. Koch influence 
> institutions exhibits are not new. A2010 investigation 
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> vw&e=>in The New Yorker noted that an underlying message of exhibits 
> in the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National 
> Museum of Natural History is that humans “evolved in response to a 
> changing world.” The article said that such language suggests that 
> climate change has been a feature of the planet since prehistoric 
> times, which plays down human contributions to climate change.
>
> Randall Kremer, director of public affairs for the museum, said that 
> Mr. Koch served on the advisory board, which is “a consultative board 
> not a governing board,” and that “the museum director has no plans to 
> ask any members to step down.”
>
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> Mr. Kremer added that while Mr. Koch was the largest single donor to 
> the museum, “he signed our standard gift agreement, which prohibits 
> donor or sponsor involvement in content.”
>
> A spokesman for the American Museum of Natural History, Roberto 
> Lebron, said, “Donors do not determine the interpretation or 
> presentation of scientific content.”
>
> Eric Chivian, founder of the center for health and the global 
> environment at Harvard Medical School and a signer of the letter, said 
> he was not convinced that policies barring donors from having direct 
> control over exhibits are effective. “It is just human nature not to 
> bite the hand that feeds you,” he said.
>
> Mr. Koch, who has given $100 million to Lincoln Center to renovate the 
> former New York State Theater and supports many other institutions, 
> has said that his contributions to the museums come from a deep love 
> of science, and from being “blown away and just fascinated 
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> by the dinosaurs on his first visit to the American Museum of Natural 
> History when he was 14. Mr. Koch and his company did not respond 
> directly to a request for comment about the letter.
>
> Dr. Chivian, who as co-founder of the groupInternational Physicians 
> for the Prevention of Nuclear War 
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> said natural history museum contributions from the Koch brothers were 
> fundamentally different from their contributions to arts institutions.
>
> “The Koch brothers have no stake in what is played at Lincoln Center,” 
> Dr. Chivian said. But such funding for museums is no more acceptable 
> than it would be if “a major tobacco company offered to fund an 
> exhibit for them devoted to lung diseases.”
>
> Chris Norris, a paleontologist and prominent blogger on museum issues, 
> warned that if museums started removing board members or turning down 
> donations, they risked damaging their reputations for objectivity.
> Doing so, he added, would enable “others to argue that the information 
> they provide is partisan and not to be trusted.”
>
>
>
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> Ellen Paul
> Executive Director
> The Ornithological Council
> Email:ellen.paul at verizon.net  <mailto:ellen.paul at verizon.net> 
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>     An Open Letter to Museums from Members of the Scientific Community
>
> /March 24, 2015/
>
> To Museums of Science and Natural History:
>
> As members of the scientific community we devote our lives to 
> understanding the world, and sharing this understanding with the 
> public. We are deeply concerned by the links between museums of 
> science and natural history with those who profit from fossil fuels or 
> fund lobby groups that misrepresent climate science.
>
> Museums are trusted sources of scientific information, some of our 
> most important resources for educating children and shaping public 
> understanding.
>
> The Code of Ethics for Museums, adopted in 1991 by the Board of 
> Directors of the American Alliance of Museums, states:
>
> /“It is incumbent on museums to be resources for humankind and in all 
> their activities to foster an informed appreciation of the rich and 
> diverse world we have inherited. It is also incumbent upon them to 
> preserve that inheritance for posterity.”/ /“Museums are grounded in 
> the tradition of public service. They are organized as public trusts, 
> holding their collections and information as a benefit for those they 
> were established to serve…Museums and those responsible for them must 
> do more than avoid legal liability, they must take affirmative steps 
> to maintain their integrity so as to warrant public confidence. They 
> must act not only legally but also ethically.”/
>
> We are concerned that the integrity of these institutions is 
> compromised by association with special interests who obfuscate 
> climate science, fight environmental regulation, oppose clean energy 
> legislation, and seek to ease limits on industrial pollution.
>
> For example, David Koch is a major donor, exhibit sponsor and trustee 
> on the Board of Directors at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of 
> Natural History, and the American Museum of Natural History. David 
> Koch’s oil and manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries is one of 
> the greatest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the United 
> States. Mr. Koch also funds a large network of climate-change-denying 
> organizations, spending over $67 million since 1997 to fund groups 
> denying climate change science.
>
> When some of the biggest contributors to climate change and funders of 
> misinformation on climate science sponsor exhibitions in museums of 
> science and natural history, they undermine public confidence in the 
> validity of the institutions responsible for transmitting scientific 
> knowledge. This corporate philanthropy comes at too high a cost.
>
> Drawing on both our scientific expertise and personal care for our 
> planet and people, we believe that the only ethical way forward for 
> our museums is to cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry and 
> funders of climate science obfuscation.
>
> With concern,
>
> 1. James Hansen, Climatologist; former head of the NASA Goddard 
> Institute for Space Studies
>
> 2. James Powell, Geochemist; former President of the Franklin Museum 
> of Science and former President and Director of the Los Angeles County 
> Natural History Museum.
>
> 3. Bob Corell, Climatologist; Head of US Office for the Global Energy 
> Assessment; former Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National 
> Science Foundation.
>
> 4. Kevin E Trenberth, Distinguished Senior Scientist, Climate Analysis 
> Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Lead Author 2001 
> and 2007 IPCC report which won a Nobel Prize.
>
> 5. Danny Harvey, Professor of Geography and Climatology, University of 
> Toronto, IPCC Convening Lead Author and Lead Author; Deputy Editor of 
> Climatic Change.
>
> 6. Eric Chivian, founder and Director of the Center for Health and the 
> Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Co-founder of 
> International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won 
> the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
>
> 7. Henry Pollack, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University 
> of Michigan. Advisor to the National Science Foundation, IPCC member.
>
> 8. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology; Director, 
> Earth System Science Center, The Pennsylvania State University.
>
> 9. Joseph J. Romm, Physicist, Climatologist; former Acting Assistant 
> Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy; founder and editor of 
> Climate Progress.
>
> 10. George Woodwell, Ecologist; Founder and Director Emeritus, Woods 
> Hole Research Center.
>
> 11. Calvin B. DeWitt, Environmental Scientist, Co-founder of the 
> Evangelical Environmental Network, President of the Academy of 
> Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists, and Professor Emeritus of 
> Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
>
> 12. Dr Stuart Parkinson, Climatologist; Executive Director, Scientists 
> for Global Responsibility, UK
>
> 13. Jason Box, Climatologist, Professor of Glaciology at the 
> Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Co-author of 2007 IPCC 
> report which won a Nobel Prize.
>
> 14. Mike MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with 
> the Climate Institute.
>
> 15. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change Institute, 
> Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, University of Queensland, 
> Australia
>
> 16. Matt Lappe, Paleoclimatologist, Environmental Hydrologist, 
> Executive Director, Alliance for Climate Education.
>
> 17. Greg Laden, Paleoanthropologist, Independent Scholar, Writer at 
> National Geographic Scienceblogs.
>
> 18. Sarah Kornbluth, Biologist; Affiliate of Bee Database Project, 
> American Museum of Natural History and Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers 
> University
>
> 19. Dr Simon L Lewis, Reader, Global Change Science, at University 
> College London and University of Leeds.
>
> 20. Brad Johnson, Science writer; MS geosciences, MIT
>
> 21. Emmanuel Vincent, Assistant Project Scientist at the University of 
> California, Merced
>
> 22. Jonathan Oppenheim, Professor of Quantum Theory, University 
> College London.  Royal Society Research Fellow in the Department of 
> Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
>
> 23. David Webb; Emeritus Professor; Previously Professor of 
> Engineering, Leeds Metropolitan University
>
> 24. Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick, Physicist, University College London
>
> 25. Scott A. Mandia, Asst. Chair /Professor – Physical Sciences, 
> Suffolk County Community College
>
> 26. Mona Mehdy, Molecular biologist, faculty at University of Texas at 
> Austin
>
> 27. Judith S. Weis, Professor Emerita, Department of Biological 
> Sciences, Rutgers University
>
> 28. Jonathan Tunik, Former Evaluation Studies Associate for the 
> American Institute of Physics.
>
> 29. Aerin Jacob, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Applied Conservation Science 
> Lab, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>
> 30. Shaun Lovejoy, Professor of Physics, McGill University, Canada, 
> formerly at the Climate Diagnostics Centre of NOAA
>
> 31. Lindy Weilgart, Professor of Biology, Dalhousie University, Nova 
> Scotia, Canada
>
> 32. Dr. Sophie Levina, MD, PhD and Doctor of Medical Sciences.
>
> 33. Dr. Susan Spencer, Solar Scientist, Founder/President 
> ofROCSPOT.org <http://rocspot.org/>
>
> 34. Erika Crispo, PhD, Evolutionary Ecologist and Biologist, Pace 
> University, NYC
>
> 35. Lucky Tran, PhD, Biologist, University of Cambridge
>
> 36. Damian Alexander Stanley, Ph.D., Neuroscientist, California 
> Institute of Technology
>
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