The Big Apple Coffee Party isn’t the only group worried about the Kochs’ impact on scientific knowledge.  A large group of scientists sent an open letter in late March to museums of science and natural history asking them to cut ties to the fossil fuel industry and those who fund climate science denial—prominent among them, the Koch Brothers.

The letter and petition to tell top natural history museums to kick David Koch off their boards (he’s a Board member at the Smithsonian, as well as the American Natural History Museum and who knows how many others), can be found here. The Natural History Museum is an alternative museum that held its grand opening at the Queens Museum in Sept. 2014 (opening alongside the People’s Climate March).  They provide touring exhibitions, expeditions and workshops.