Kudos to eagle-eyed Twitter user @OpenIB for spotting another Koch-linked article that attempts to spur doubt about whether humans are responsible for climate change.
Today, Michael Bastasch wrote an article for the Daily Caller entitled “NOAA’s ‘Hiatus’-Busting Study ‘Rushed’, Ignored ‘Scientific Processes’”. Michael Bastasch’s LinkedIn profile shows that he worked for both the Charles Koch Institute and the Daily Caller News Foundation in the year 2012, in addition to stints with the The Heritage Foundation and ALEC. In fact, the official Charles Koch Institute site lists the Daily Caller News Foundation as a “Partner Organization.”
In addition, Bastaschs’ spouse Jackie Bastasch is currently an employee of the Watchdog project at the Franklin Center, having also worked for the Charles Koch Institute in 2012:
If the Watchdog project sounds familiar, that may be because we recently reported how one of their offshoots published a full-throated defense of the Kochs without disclosing that they received money from non-profits linked to the Kochs.
It is worth mentioning (though you probably figured this out already) that there was no disclosure of the author’s, or the Daily Caller’s, Koch-network ties, associated with today’s article.