Is Joe Romm a modern day McCarthy?

That's a fair analogy.

Also, it's worthy of note that the Warmists love bring up the red herring of the millions of (exclusively private) dollars in contributions people employed in the oil, gas, and coal industries make to skeptical organizations, yet they NEVER point out the BILLIONS in funding that the hysteria-mongers and psuedo-scientists get, most of which is extorted from taxpayers against their will.

Be careful of the analogies you choose.

When Hitler came to power he produced a list of scientists claiming that the science of Jewish scholars was false. It is the same cheap and bogus political trick that climate science deniers use. Lists mean nothing. If you have a stronger scientific argument – show it.

AGW deniers seem to overlook the cumulative nature of the scientific process. Every nitpicking attack against AGW is false or irrelevant. Every “alternative” explanation was long ago considered and objectively eliminated.

Where we are today is the accumulated knowledge of thousands of scientific studies by thousands of scientists, the overwhelming majority of which serve as validation for the AGW hypothesis. Absent an alternative hypothesis that passes the same rigorous standards, deniers have nothing – except political and personal attacks and factual misrepresentations.

In fact, the entire anti-AGW argument hinges on the existence of a mythical worldwide scientific conspiracy.

And that puts you in the company of:

Creationists;

Time Cube Theory of Everything;

Expanding Earth;

UFO-ologists;

Bigfoot-ologists;

Inoculationists;

Illuminati;

Flat Earth;

Hollow Earth;

Chemtrails;

Martians;

Perpetual motion machines;

2012 apocalypse;

Planet X;

Hallettestoneion Sea Zoria Dragons;

Geocentric earth; and

A-biotic oil

I’m sure there are more, but none that any educated person can take seriously.

Well let's see, Joseph Romm criticized an exceedingly poorly-researched chapter on climate change solutions in Dubner's book on his blog. The misrepresentation of Caldeira was only the tip of the error-riddled iceberg. The authors also claimed that solar panels contribute to global warming, for example. It was just an awful chapter (yes, I actually read it).

Joseph McCarthy accused thousands of Americans of being Communists or communist sympathizers and made them the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government or private-industry panels, committees and agencies.

Thus the answer to your question is obviously not, and I suggest you take a history lesson and learn about what McCarthy did. If you really want to compare him to someone, your best bet is probably your buddy James Inhofe, who would probably take similar actions to McCarthy's if he had the ability.

Is your next question going to compare Hansen or Obama to Hitler?

Weise-Ente. Calling people out for lying is not what Romm was doing. He was ringing around trying to put words in people's mouths:

""Last week, a few days before Romm’s post, Caldeira sent an e-mail to Myhrvold and cc’d me as well. It included a chain of earlier e-mails between Caldeira and Romm.

The chain begins with Joseph Romm telling Caldeira that he had read SuperFreakonomics and “I want to trash them for this insanity and ignorance.” Romm adds that “my blog is read by everyone in this area, including the media” and tells Caldeira that “I’d like a quote like ‘The authors of SuperFreakonomics have utterly misrepresented my work,’ plus whatever else you want to say.”""

~ Is that what you call honest journalism?

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I don't think you know what McCarthyism is.

Calling people out for lying isn't intimidation.

Edit:

They misrepresented the work of scientists. I think the people who did the work know it better than people who run a blog. I'm actually surprised the scientists were so tame in their response. I would have said far, far worse things.

It is what Al Gore does when He says the Debate is over, And He is to chicken to Debate

anybody. A sixth grader with common sense could make him look stupid.

Rolling Stone, may as well believe what you read in wikipedia.