That Science Museum Exhibition

Last month I noted the opening of the Science Museum's climate change exhibition. Now the Ecologist reports a spat with environmental campaigners because Shell is the exhibition's biggest sponsor. The oil company's actions are being compared with those of the tobacco firms a decade ago when they sponsored anything that moved before it became socially unacceptable for them to play this role. Well, yes and no. Shell may be a major source of CO2 but until such time as we get our combined act together to decarbonise our energy sources we need them. We never needed the tobacco companies. What is concerning is the apparent statement by the museum's director that the exhibition will not state a position on "whether or not climate change is real". Really?