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What's occurring with the climate?

Climate Change exhibition

National Slate Museum:   5 March – 6 June 2010

 

Humankind is the 'Earth's biggest threat'! We are changing the planet!

These facts and more are at the core of a new exhibition at the National Slate Museum looking at some of the reasons for climate change.

 The exhibition - a touring exhibition by Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales and Science Shops Wales -  promotes the understanding of climate change,  encouraging people to look at the reasons for climate change so that they can decide how to help prevent more problems in the future:

 Said Julie Williams of the museum.

"The world’s top scientists are in no doubt that human activity is changing our climate and that climate change is the biggest threat to all life on planet earth. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the evidence is ‘unequivocal’ that increased warming since the industrial age is due to human activity, but what does this mean for Wales, the World and future generations.

   “Questions such as how do we know the cause is human activity? Won’t climate change make the UK more comfortable and sunny?  Is it too late to change? and many more are all looked at in the exhibition and we’re asking people to make their own Climate pledge as part of the exhibition”

 The exhibition runs until 6th June 2010 and admission is FREE. More information can be found on the museum’s website at www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/scan  or if you would like to find out more e-mail scan@museumwales.ac.uk

 

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Entry to all Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales sites is free, thanks to the support of the Welsh Assembly Government.  Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales is the new name for the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, which operates seven museums across Wales - National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans: National History Museum, National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, Big Pit: National Coal Museum, Blaenafon, National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, National Slate Museum, Llanberis and the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.  

 

Press Information

For more press information and photographs please contact Julie Williams on 01286 873707 e-mail: julie.williams@amgueddfacymru.ac.uk.  Photographs are available from the National Slate Museum.