the whistleblower John Bates is mentioned further down in the Daily Caller article.
meant to say Steven Koonin is the guy who came up with the Red Team/Blue Team concept Scott Pruitt talks about setting up:
11 Sept: Heartland Institute: EPA Considers ‘Red Team, Blue Team’ Climate Science Examination
by Kenneth Artz
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has floated the idea of using a “Red Team, Blue Team” exercise, a back-and-forth critique by government-recruited experts, to develop a better understanding of the state of climate science...
In a statement discussing the proposed exercise, Pruitt said, “What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2 [carbon dioxide].”...
Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has several recommendations for the exercises, including who should implement the project and how it should operate.
“Hire Steve Koonin,” said Ebell. “He has the right credentials to run this sort of thing. He’s a very highly regarded physicist, he served in the Obama administration in the Department of Energy, and he’s actually given some thought about how to do it...
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/epa-considers-red-team-blue-team-climate-science-examination
20 Apr: WSJ: A ‘Red Team’ Exercise Would Strengthen Climate Science
Put the ‘consensus’ to a test, and improve public understanding, through an open, adversarial process.
By Steven Koonin
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-red-team-exercise-would-strengthen-climate-science-1492728579
the manmade global warming alarmists and their friends in the FakeNewsMSM HATE this idea.