Cato Institute, the right wing think tank co-founded by the Koch brothers, plans to release a document this week that has all the appearances of being a government report on the impacts of climate change in the United States – but of course it is not.
The Cato report, titled: “Addendum: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” uses the same cover design, title and fonts as a report issued in 2009 by the US government’s Global Change Research Program titled: Global Climate Change Impacts in the US.
Here’s a side-by-side comparison of the Cato fake report and the US government climate impacts report:
As John Abraham, a professor at the University of St. Thomas, puts it best,
“It’s not an addendum. It’s counterfeit. It’s a continued effort to kick the can down the road: a steady drip, drip, drip of false reports by false scientists to create a false sense of debate.”
Read previous coverage of the counterfeit Cato report, which is laughably edited by Pat Michaels, the fossil fuel industry’s paid misinformation mouthpiece.
Check back here to see if any media fall for this obvious ploy to create the appearance of officialdom and real science by the Cato Institute.
