Or is it the other way around? The Cato Institute, once the Koch Institute, has been having trouble with its Global Warming Denial program. For example, their lead Climate denier Pat Michaels [is getting] punked by Swarthmore students in the photo above with a fake award.
Apparently Michaels left first, and Cato then decided to get rid of all of the people who worked for him. However it happened, The Cato Institute, once the Koch Foundation, founded on lies, has disbanded its Global Warming Denialism "research" center. But they don't want you to get the idea that they have come to accept the facts in the issue.
tl;dr: Hooray!
As we have been going along from Friday to Friday, I have pointed out particular ancient Denialist lies that have failed, but maintain a zombie existence on the Web and in Republican talking points. Today we go wholesale.
U.S. think tank shuts down prominent center that challenged climate science
The move came after Pat Michaels, a climate scientist [sic] who rejects mainstream researchers’ concerns about rising temperatures, left Cato earlier this year amid disagreements with officials in the organization.
A spokeswoman said Cato’s shuttering of the Center for the Study of Science does not represent a shift in the institute’s position on human-caused climate change. But the think tank moved decisively to close down the science wing that was overseen by Michaels. Ryan Maue, a meteorologist and former adjunct scholar, also left the center.