The museum’s Prove It! website, which is designed to influence politicians at the Copenhagen climate summit in December, allows members of the public to pledge their support, or lack of it, to the environmentalist cause.
But so far those backing the campaign are out-numbered nearly six-to-one by opponents.
At the launch, a statement from the Science Museum said: "We're convinced climate change is caused by humans and requires urgent action."
Well, of course they're convinced - they'd be convinced that the moon actually is composed of cheese if it would gain them funding.
Increasingly, however, people have come to understand that "Man-made" global warming, climate change, or whatever the next buzzwords may be are ultimately driven not by science, but by money, politics, and control.
Humans aren't able to significantly affect long-term climate conditions, and despite the hype, most people realize that. They also understand that the goal of most politicians is the imposition of control. "Man-made" climate change seemed like a sure fit - right up until folks caught onto the scam.
As politicians want to control things, then they should set their sights upon things that can actually be affected. This means that they should question conventional wisdom. Unfortunately, that involves mental exercise.
Conventional wisdom, a term coined by economist John Galbraith, essentially reflects convenience: it is simple, comfortable, and by no means neccesarily true. Conventional wisdom, for example, suggests that schoolchildren who pass tests with relatively high scores must have been learning. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" program was based in this tenet of conventional wisdom. It was simple, it was comfortable. It was wrong.
It failed to consider a fundamental aspect of human behavior: cheating. It also failed to consider who, exactly, might be doing the cheating. However, a study conducted in (where else?) Chicago demonstrated conclusively that (presumably because it was in their best interests to have high numbers of students pass) teachers inflated scores.
Increasingly, conventional wisdom is shown to be unwise, yet it is a daily aspect of life for those who follow news media. It's what they "report", and rarely do they stray.