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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#993366">What an unwise move. We
<u>need</u> to keep people with ‘different’ views <u>close</u> to us if we ever hope to broaden their understanding. Removing them from boards and so forth will just eliminate that potential education avenue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ann Molineux, PhD | Curator and Collection Manager| Non-vertebrate Paleontology | Jackson School of Geosciences | The University of Texas at Austin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Address: NPL Building 122, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758|Campus mailcode R5800<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">512-232-5384 Cell 512-791-5521
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> | Web:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.jsg.utexas.edu_npl_&d=AwMGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=OXujhSaM8-h0FSTrAXDR4VUaOVgwKu34eeF3m_Y9Bgw&s=rGspFIo7lYhVqvGmVBL7HiKoUNwwOJqGpTAUXBOjXfw&e="><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">
Non-vertebrate Paleontology Lab</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> and
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and </span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hornraiser.utexas.edu_project_54f0c83114bdf71ac0ab92ea&d=AwMGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=OXujhSaM8-h0FSTrAXDR4VUaOVgwKu34eeF3m_Y9Bgw&s=LtvO_Ht0dwbChT5U0-ye_zYMjzTuzV6FuJbO3uBnbcE&e="><span style="color:red">Adopt-A-Fossil</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Prondzinski, Mary Beth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NHCOLL-new<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Gauntlet thrown (in case your copy was lost in the mail)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I always wondered why these two major museums were able to survive when others were going under (!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ellen Paul<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> AVECOL<br>
<b>Cc:</b> NHCOLL-new<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Gauntlet thrown (in case your copy was lost in the mail)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">From today's NYT and the full text of the letter, below.<br>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_03_24_science_science-2Dmuseums-2Durged-2Dto-2Dcut-2Dties-2Dwith-2Dkochs.html-3Fref-3Dus&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=spNR6EFxNzVmcjcpZqPlZbm5c3iM0SHDIjgt9R-zRYk&e=">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/science/science-museums-urged-to-cut-ties-with-kochs.html?ref=us</a><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thenaturalhistorymuseum.org_open-2Dletter-2Dto-2Dmuseums-2Dfrom-2Dscientists_&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=5FjWPnyDuY-14ieh_QMYTqc93IBLwdLWgzL62byBfbI&e="><span style="color:#326891">letter</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>released
on Tuesday asserts that such money is tainted by these donors’ efforts to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__topics.nytimes.com_top_news_science_topics_globalwarming_index.html-3Finline-3Dnyt-2Dclassifier&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=F7P155gReRIgDZ-Q4C8UblseYwboiDzJsev-kqwy05Q&e=" title="Recent and
archival news about global warming."><span style="color:#326891">climate
change</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">“When some of the biggest contributors to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__topics.nytimes.com_top_news_science_topics_globalwarming_index.html-3Finline-3Dnyt-2Dclassifier&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=F7P155gReRIgDZ-Q4C8UblseYwboiDzJsev-kqwy05Q&e=" title="Recent and archival news about global warming."><span style="color:#326891">climate
change</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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,” the letter states. “This corporate philanthropy comes at too high a cost.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The letter does not mention specific companies, but it does name<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__topics.nytimes.com_top_reference_timestopics_people_k_david-5Fh-5Fkoch_index.html-3Finline-3Dnyt-2Dper&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=7fEp5E5B9bnFjKEitsiLUsze3-QgkbAS_6nxMx4ebRo&e=" title="More articles about David H. Koch."><span style="color:#326891">David
H. Koch</span></a>, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Public records show that many fossil-fuel companies have made<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_02_22_us_ties-2Dto-2Dcorporate-2Dcash-2Dfor-2Dclimate-2Dchange-2Dresearcher-2DWei-2DHock-2DSoon.html&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=9k0OeOvFPYp_r8_WaN694eMDAqyfCVDF-a4oAtzqSzY&e="><span style="color:#326891">similar
contributions</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to such organizations and scientists over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">The letter is a project of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thenaturalhistorymuseum.org_&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=5n-X-M34DIWQp8wXeFiioLgs1inI3m6BwyY9BrX7uHw&e="><span style="color:#326891">the
Natural History Museum</span></a>, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.kickkochofftheboard.com_-3Fcode-3Dnhm&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=yLZiAvvi2X7rM2LEqn5ugORrm3T25LRI6inoAFJvu7c&e="><span style="color:#326891">petition</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>drive,
also released on Tuesday and sponsored by environmental organizations including<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.greenpeace.org_usa_en_&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=8-wBM8tm01ytUeQCaYYHoFV_OC56QTDvoCniMKnxlYo&e="><span style="color:#326891">Greenpeace</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.sierraclub.org_&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=z4J1YeDxlApAEjeCA-JmFVIpPR5_RSKK1VFP-_NjMG0&e="><span style="color:#326891">Sierra
Club</span></a>, urges the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History to “Kick Koch off the board!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Eric Wohlschlegel, a spokesman for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.api.org_&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=weuQtdcyO69K1CWyWAD4gS9jwvi2elCtLRcMT-FkZsU&e="><span style="color:#326891">American
Petroleum Institute</span></a>, said he could not comment on the letter because he had not seen it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Allegations that contributions from donors like Mr. Koch influence institutions exhibits are not new. A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.newyorker.com_magazine_2010_08_30_covert-2Doperations&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=IdUKI3KiAmtAHO2cWdl4WoBoYpNvbfpGyd0-gkRBnvw&e="><span style="color:#326891">2010
investigation</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">A spokesman for the American Museum of Natural History, Roberto Lebron, said, “Donors do not determine the interpretation or presentation of scientific content.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">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 “<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__query.nytimes.com_gst_fullpage.html-3Fres-3D950CE1DC103BF937A35756C0A9649D8B63&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=XNaTPgQ0YfQPiY2AQ_9J_qhaNqYwZdvVVnaV1yReKZ4&e="><span style="color:#326891">blown
away and just fascinated</span></a>” 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dr. Chivian, who as co-founder of the group<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_International-5FPhysicians-5Ffor-5Fthe-5FPrevention-5Fof-5FNuclear-5FWar&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=qZBRRwiV1xxowCAo2MFUowBPPDMUbG3w9hjGc5oMz3g&e=" title="International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War"><span style="color:#326891">International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>shared the organization’s 1985<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__topics.nytimes.com_top_news_science_topics_nobel-5Fprizes_index.html-3Finline-3Dnyt-2Dclassifier&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=yh7cwWjdu_WhI2VTM4pVQzvR7d5mvi3yaTY1AEttAGw&e=" title="More
articles about Nobel Prizes."><span style="color:#326891">Nobel
Prize</span></a>, said natural history museum contributions from the Koch brothers were fundamentally different from their contributions to arts institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>The Ornithological Council<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#392321;font-weight:normal">An Open Letter to Museums from Members of the Scientific Community<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.15pt;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">March 24, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">To Museums of Science and Natural History:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">Museums are trusted sources of scientific information, some of our most important resources for educating children and shaping public understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">The Code of Ethics for Museums, adopted in 1991 by the Board of Directors of the American Alliance of Museums, states:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">“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.”</span></em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">“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.”</span></em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">With concern,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">1. James Hansen, Climatologist; former head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">3. Bob Corell, Climatologist; Head of US Office for the Global Energy Assessment; former Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">5. Danny Harvey, Professor of Geography and Climatology, University of Toronto, IPCC Convening Lead Author and Lead Author; Deputy Editor of Climatic Change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">7. Henry Pollack, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Michigan. Advisor to the National Science Foundation, IPCC member.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">8. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology; Director, Earth System Science Center, The Pennsylvania State University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">9. Joseph J. Romm, Physicist, Climatologist; former Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy; founder and editor of Climate Progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">10. George Woodwell, Ecologist; Founder and Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">12. Dr Stuart Parkinson, Climatologist; Executive Director, Scientists for Global Responsibility, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">14. Mike MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">15. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change Institute, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">16. Matt Lappe, Paleoclimatologist, Environmental Hydrologist, Executive Director, Alliance for Climate Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">17. Greg Laden, Paleoanthropologist, Independent Scholar, Writer at National Geographic Scienceblogs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">18. Sarah Kornbluth, Biologist; Affiliate of Bee Database Project, American Museum of Natural History and Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">19. Dr Simon L Lewis, Reader, Global Change Science, at University College London and University of Leeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">20. Brad Johnson, Science writer; MS geosciences, MIT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">21. Emmanuel Vincent, Assistant Project Scientist at the University of California, Merced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">22. Jonathan Oppenheim, Professor of Quantum Theory, University College London. Royal Society Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">23. David Webb; Emeritus Professor; Previously Professor of Engineering, Leeds Metropolitan University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">24. Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick, Physicist, University College London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">25. Scott A. Mandia, Asst. Chair /Professor – Physical Sciences, Suffolk County Community College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">26. Mona Mehdy, Molecular biologist, faculty at University of Texas at Austin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">27. Judith S. Weis, Professor Emerita, Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">28. Jonathan Tunik, Former Evaluation Studies Associate for the American Institute of Physics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">29. Aerin Jacob, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Applied Conservation Science Lab, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">30. Shaun Lovejoy, Professor of Physics, McGill University, Canada, formerly at the Climate Diagnostics Centre of NOAA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">31. Lindy Weilgart, Professor of Biology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">32. Dr. Sophie Levina, MD, PhD and Doctor of Medical Sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">33. Dr. Susan Spencer, Solar Scientist, Founder/President of ROCSPOT.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">34. Erika Crispo, PhD, Evolutionary Ecologist and Biologist, Pace University, NYC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">35. Lucky Tran, PhD, Biologist, University of Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">36. Damian Alexander Stanley, Ph.D., Neuroscientist, California Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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