One of the most fascinating incidents with the Koch brothers is when they funded Richard A. Muller, a prominent skeptic of global warming with actual scientific

One of the most fascinating incidents with the Koch brothers is when they funded Richard A. Muller, a prominent skeptic of global warming with actual scientific chops, to do his own temperature reconstruction via Berkeley Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Earth According to Richard, the Koch brothers were genuinely curious about climate change (an odd claim when they were aggressively funding propaganda casting doubt on it). In the end Richard's team got the exact same results in their temperature reconstruction as the other 5 or so efforts had (NASA Giss, NOAA, Japan, UK, etc). and Muller wrote this piece for the NYTtimes, detailing how he was no longer a skeptic https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of... (it was a bit amusing to see how he characterizes the whole episode, "NOW we know this is real" because he had a hand in it, despite 5 other groups already getting the same result decades earlier!) Anyway, this event did not then cause the Koch brothers to apologize and stop funding climate science denialism, they still do it.