I've seen this play before. It doesn't end well.
The people over at The Federalist are on a mission from Go...err, Koch. They are out to destroy Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Why? Well, The Federalist is one of those octopus tentacles in the echo chamber, reaching forth as a new voice with credentials (from all the same old voices of the chamber). The founders are from a place you might have heard of before - the Heartland Institute.
Tyson has become a star, mostly because of his ability to engage a layman into the wonders of science and intellectualism, and also, for people like me, because he has been very blunt and straightforward, concise and instructional, on the data, implications and science of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
He must be stopped.