Jerry Taylor

Jerome Cogburn Taylor (born August 2, 1963) is an American environmental activist, policy analyst, and game designer.

Taylor cofounded the Niskanen Center, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank that, among other things, advocates for market environmentalism and the adoption of a carbon tax system to combat global warming.

Before founding the Niskanen Center in 2014, Taylor was a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, where he previously espoused a skeptical position on environmental issues.

[2] Taylor's case is a prominent example of a former climate-change denier who came to embrace policies to address climate change after researching the scientific consensus behind man-made global warming.

He had been placed on administrative leave by the Institute a few days earlier after the board became aware of him being charged with domestic violence against his wife.