Attacking the Messenger

I'm not surprised that Romm goes bananas over this front-page article in today's NYT by Elisabeth Rosenthal, because it prominently quotes Roger Pielke, Jr. Any high profile story with a Pielke makes Romm all frothy. (I do, however, think the piece leaned too heavily on Roger and that it should have mentioned that he is a frequent critic of the IPCC.) What surprises me is the over the top reaction that Romm elicits from Robert Brulle, a communications expert at Drexel University. He tells Romm in an email that the story is the "the worst, one sided reporting I have ever seen." Hmm, that makes me wonder how much reporting he's actually read. (Worse than many of the MSM stories leading up to the Iraq war?) But wait, it gets better--er, I mean worse. Because this morning, according to Romm, Brulle lards it on during a phone conversation: