Welcome to the Australian Museum website

to see the whole picture: how the Tea Party fails to notice the greatest threat to its values -- Polluting the message: how science becomes infected with social meaning -- The jury of our peers: how we follow the people around us -- The power of the mob: how bullies hide in the crowd -- Through a glass darkly: the strange mirror world of climate deniers -- Inside the elephant: why we keep searching for enemies -- The two brains: why we are so poorly evolved to deal with climate change -- Familiar yet unimaginable: why climate change does not feel dangerous -- Uncertain long-term costs: how our cognitive biases line up against climate change -- Them, there, and then: how we push climate change far away -- Costing the earth: why we want to gain the whole world yet lose our lives -- Certain about the uncertainty: how we use uncertainty as a justification for inaction -- Paddling in the pool of worry: how we choose what to ignore -- Don't even talk about it! The invisible force field of climate silence -- The non-perfect non-storm: why we think that climate change is impossibly difficult -- Cockroach tours: how museums struggle to tell the climate story -- Tell me a story: why lies can be so appealing -- Powerful words: how the words we use affect the way we feel -- Communicator trust: why the messenger is more important than the message -- If they don't understand the theory, talk about it over and over and over again: why climate science does not move people -- Protect, ban, save, and stop: how climate change became environmentalist -- Polarization: why polar bears make it harder to accept climate change --. Contents note continued: Turn off your lights or the puppy gets it: how doomsday becomes dullsville -- Bright-siding: the dangers of positive dreams -- Winning the argument: how a scientific discourse turned into a debating slam -- Two billion bystanders: how Live Earth tried and failed to build a movement -- Postcard from Hopenhagen: how climate negotiations keep preparing for the drama yet to come -- Precedents and presidents: how climate policy lost the plot -- Wellhead and tailpipe: why we keep fueling the fire we want to put out -- The black gooey stuff: why oil companies await our permission to go out of business -- Moral imperatives: how we diffuse responsibility for climate change -- What did you do in the great climate war, Daddy? Why we don't really care what our children think -- The power of one: how climate change became your fault -- Degrees of separation: how the climate experts cope with what they know -- Intimations of mortality: why the future goes dark -- From the head to the heart: the phony division between science and religion -- Climate conviction: what the green team can learn from the God squad -- Why we are wired to ignore climate change-- and why we are wired to take action -- In a nutshell: some personal and highly biased ideas for digging our way out of this hole.