A good read over at Reason’s “Hit & Run” blog on the Center for American Progress’s climate-change attack dog Joe Romm and his reluctance to debate University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr.

An excerpt:

The Breakthrough Institute’s Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger are calling out the Center for American Progress’ climate change blogger, Joe Romm. The pit bull of self-styled climate change “realists,” Romm is notorious for his take-no-prisoners and damn-them-all-to-hell style of “scientific” debate. Now it appears that Romm is ducking a debate over global warming policy and science with University of Colorado environmental studies professor Roger Pielke, Jr.
The whole Breakthrough Institute debate challenge post is well worth reading, but to give H&R readers a flavor of what is going on I provide an excerpt below:
The last few months have been rough for Joe Romm. Forced to spin Copenhagen as a success, climategate as a skeptics’ conspiracy, and cap and trade legislation as world-changing, Romm has started making increasingly wild accusations against working journalists and academics.
Just in the last few weeks Romm has piled up quite a list: Newsweek’s Fred Guterl, the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Ball and Keith Johnson, the Times’ Andy Revkin, climate researchers, Judith Curry and Roger Pielke, Jr., a Breakthrough Senior Fellow. Romm has shown himself willing to say virtually anything to avoid dealing with the fact that his apocalypse-mongering has backfired, and that his climate policies are failing.
A telling moment came last week after Revkin wrote on the Times blog Dot Earth, that one test of the IPCC’s credibility is whether it will choose Pielke to co-author the next IPCC report on climate change and natural disasters. Revkin noted that Pielke has one of the longest, if not the longest, list of peer-reviewed publications on the matter.

The rest here.