Is Joe Romm, the AGW alarmist in-chief, backing away from the catastrophic man-made Global Warming mantra?

No, I think Joe will just do the alarmist (and political) trick of preaching doom and gloom and then when his predictions don't come to pass he will just say that he never said that or he was misquoted.

Marc Morano is also the lead guy behind Inhofe. You forgot that little part.

"Morano was hired in Spring 2006 as the Director of Communications to US Senator James Inhofe"

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marc_Mo...

http://www.desmogblog.com/marc-morano

He's not a climatologist but he does have a BA in political science. Thank God eh?

And, like has been posted in here, he is distancing himself from Lovelock as should the rest of the scientific community if they haven't already. I';m fairly certain though that quite a few of them had already done so prior to this.

I thought Al Gore was your scapegoat-in-chief...

Personally, I think that various people are just either clarifying their actual positions or admitting to saying things that were 'alarmist' for speculating about possible dire consequences of anthropogenic global warming. So far I haven't seen anyone actually admit that there isn't a need to be concerned about even the more mild possible effects or that they were wrong to accept AGW. I think that this really has something to do with all the various denier ploys to discredit them by focusing only on their worst-case scenario claims in interviews (not in a scientific presentation or debate) and the addition of 'Catastrophic" to AGW to try and make them seem like doomsayers.

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I always find it amusing that deniers like yourself are familiar with so many "alarmists" that I've never heard of. I guess I don't read enough blogs.

EDIT: Never heard of Marc Morano either, but then I don't read blogs. I will admit to occasionally reading Jeff Masters on Weather Underground, though, to find out what's happening in the tropics.

No, I believe Joe Romm is backing away from James Lovelock.

And I believe as a result of all this he will start the process of trying to figure out how to be a catastrophic alarmist without sounding like a catastrophic alarmist, if that makes any sense.

In the end, people like Romm have what combat fighter pilots refer to as "target fixation".

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Edit: You could be right but I was reading this article: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/23/469749...

I have a feeling we are going to see a lot more of this as November approaches. Gotta love the denial of alarmist that alarmist actually exist.

Denial is the first stage of grief.